Lebanon will have a president on Jan. 9: Berri
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Tuesday that the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria will not have “negative effects” on Lebanon and affirmed that the country will “have a president...
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Syria: The forces on the ground
The disposition of armed forces in Syria has remained largely unchanged since late 2019. This period of relative stability followed a series of decisive events: the culmination of the Syrian...
Nemtala EDDE, 11 December 2024
'Every day, I breathed torture': Souheil Hamawi, a Lebanese man, recounts 33 years in Syrian prisons
Dec. 3, 1992. Lebanon has been under Syrian occupation for 16 years. Syrian army checkpoints across the country monitor movements, while the intelligence services of Hafez Assad's regime, both in...
Lisa GOURSAUD, 10 December 2024
‘We call each other every day’: Friendships against all odds between displaced and their hosts
When the war in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel escalated in late September, Elissar*, a 42-year-old Shiite woman, was forced to flee her home twice. Yet, the “humanity” and kindness of...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 10 December 2024
Nine Lebanese held in Syria return to Lebanon: Mawlawi
Lebanon's caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced Tuesday that nine Lebanese detainees previously held in Syrian prisons have returned to Lebanon following the collapse of Syrian...
L'Orient Today staff, 10 December 2024
Jordanian man returns home after 38 years in Syria's prisons
A Jordanian man has returned to his home country after spending 38 years in Syrian jails, an official said on Tuesday, after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad ended an agonizing wait for his...
10 December 2024
Economic news recap: Here's what happened last week in Lebanon
-In the wake of the cease-fire reached between Hezbollah and Israel, which took effect at dawn on Wednesday, Nov. 27, several airlines have announced their intentions to resume flights to Rafik...
Stephanie Bechara, 10 December 2024
11 MPs challenge a ‘customized’ law pertaining to Supreme Judicial Council
Eleven MPs filed an appeal to the Constitutional Council on Monday, challenging three recent legislative measures affecting the judiciary. First, they appealed against a law passed on Nov. 28...
Claude ASSAF, 10 December 2024
Counterfeit $50 bills allegedly circulating in the Lebanese Market: What we know
BEIRUT – Just a few days ago, Philippe, a young Lebanese based in Paris, was listening to his father's frustration over the phone. He had just gotten back from a gas station in Lebanon that had...
Stephanie Bechara, 10 December 2024
Sit-in by families of Islamist prisoners in Lebanon in front of Roumieh prison
Families of Islamist detainees in Lebanon held a sit-in outside Roumieh prison on Tuesday to demand the release of their loved ones. "Yes, we are angry if our dignity is violated," they chanted....
10 December 2024
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani: The making of a ‘hero’
Little is known about Abu Mohammed al-Jolani: A childhood in Saudi Arabia, an unrealized dream of becoming a journalist, time spent in an American prison in Iraq, a reputation as a diligent worker...
Stéphanie KHOURI, 10 December 2024
Mohamed al-Bashir appointed caretaker Syrian PM for transitional government until March
Mohamed al-Bashir has been appointed caretaker prime minister of the transitional Syrian government until March 1, 2025, he said in a televised statement on Tuesday. Bashir ran...
10 December 2024
Israel is leveraging Assad's fall to advance its plans in Syria
For several days, voices across the region have suggested that the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime is part of an Israeli strategy, as Israeli officials celebrate the blow dealt to the ‘axis of...
Noura DOUKHI, 10 December 2024
Uncertainty surrounds Jan. 9 presidential election session
The situation was already complex, but the rapid developments in Syria and the fall of the regime have complicated it further. Based on the recent positions of the Lebanese Forces (LF) and the...
Scarlett HADDAD, 10 December 2024
Syrian refugees’ future in Lebanon after Assad's departure
Since the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, all eyes have turned to the Lebanese-Syrian border. Many in Lebanon fear a new influx of refugees, driven by a different demographic shift this...
Jeanine JALKH, 10 December 2024
After Assad's fall, concerns about his chemical arsenal
As the Syrian regime crumbled under a rapid offensive by rebel forces, officials in the West and neighboring countries expressed growing concern about the fate of Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons...
Dany MOUDALLAL, 10 December 2024
Missing 5-year-old boy found under rubble two months later after Israeli strike
On Monday, the body of a child was found during searches near a house bombed by the Israeli army about two months ago in Maaysra (Keserwan). The little boy, Amir Hussein, 5, had been missing...
10 December 2024
Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 34 Palestinians
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 34 Palestinians overnight and on Tuesday as Israeli tanks pushed into areas in central and southern parts of the enclave, Reuters reported...
10 December 2024
Will Turkey benefit from the fall of the Assad regime?
During a speech on Saturday in Gaziantep, one of Turkey's border towns most affected by the influx of Syrian refugees, Recep Tayyip Erdogan could hardly contain his enthusiasm.As Syrian rebels...
Clara HAGE, 10 December 2024
Letters to Lebanon: A letter from the back seat of the car
Desperate to entertain two bored daughters on long car trips, my parents resorted to all kinds of guessing games. When even these failed to keep me and my sister from winding each other up, my...
Emily CARPENTER, 10 December 2024
Lebanon denounces Israeli crimes against media workers
The Director General of the Ministry of Information, Hassan Falha, denounced on Monday from the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, "the murders of media professionals perpetrated by Israeli forces in...
10 December 2024
UN calls for halt to Israeli bombings in Syria
The U.N. envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, called for an end to Israeli bombing and troop movements in Syria, Reuters reports. The official also stressed that there was a "risk" of new conflicts in...
10 December 2024
Mikati creates commission for missing persons in Syria
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati created a crisis cell to examine the issue of missing or abducted people in Syria. According to the daily al-Modon, the meeting also addressed the issue of...
10 December 2024
Hezbollah condemns Israeli military operations in Syria
In a statement released overnight, Hezbollah condemned the Israeli offensive on the Golan Heights in Syria as well as its strikes on Syrian military infrastructure – "nearly 310" since Sunday...
10 December 2024
Projectile falls on Akkar home without exploding
A projectile – a missile according to reports and a shell according to photos – crashed without exploding early Tuesday on a house in Qleiat in Akkar in North Lebanon, reported L'Orient Today's...
10 December 2024
After a bitter failure, Iran reaches out to Syria’s new leaders
Tehran is the big loser in this sequence. The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Sunday marks the steady collapse of the Iran-led “Axis of Resistance.” Fourteen months after the Oct. 7, 2023...
Tatiana KROTOFF, 10 December 2024
Syria rebel leader vows to pursue former officials for torture, war crimes
Syria's Islamist rebel leader on Tuesday vowed to pursue former senior government officials responsible for torture and war crimes, a day after he began talks on the transfer of power following...
10 December 2024
Trial of Prime Minister Netanyahu resumes in Tel Aviv
Benjamin Netanyahu, the first sitting prime minister of Israel to face a criminal trial, is expected to testify for the first time when his corruption case resumes Tuesday....
10 December 2024
104 journalists killed in 2024, over half in Gaza
This year has been "particularly deadly" for journalists with 104 killed worldwide, over half of them being in Gaza, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said Tuesday. ...
10 December 2024
Israeli PM says occupied Golan Heights Israeli 'for eternity'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel for almost 60 years, would perpetually remain part of Israel. His comment...
10 December 2024
Syria's de facto authorities get to work returning services to Aleppo
Since rebels took Aleppo more than a week ago, its new de facto authorities have been getting on with running Syria's second city, restoring basic services like communications, electricity and...
10 December 2024
Israeli PM says won't stop Gaza war 'now'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he would not stop the war in Gaza "now," with renewed efforts towards a cease-fire underway. Speaking at a press...
10 December 2024
Israel wishes to establish diplomatic relations with the new regime in Syria, says Netanyahu | Live
21:02 Beirut Time Syrian President Bashar Assad is currently in Russia , Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov confirmed in an interview with NBC. “President Assad is in...
Malek Jadah, Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah Abdallah, Marguerita Sejaan and Nicholas Frakes, 10 December 2024
Lebanese detainees in Syria return home and Israel takes positions in Syria: Everything you need to know this Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• What comes next in Syria following the...
Abbas Mahfouz, 10 December 2024
Sednaya's gates are open, thousands freed from Syria's 'human slaughterhouse'
A man with an automatic rifle gets down on one knee and lifts the barrel. He fires once at the heavy-duty lock, which he had been knocking away at, and it finally breaks. He pulls the bolt back and...
Amelia Hankins, 10 December 2024
In Lebanon, first incidents contained after Assad’s fall
As soon as Homs’ full control by rebel forces was announced, hundreds of Lebanese and Syrian nationals rushed to the streets to celebrate Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Syrian oppositionists in the...
