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2 days ago · Lebanon, country consisting of a narrow strip of territory on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It was home to ancient Phoenician settlements at sites that continued to be important centers of trade into the modern era. Lebanon became independent in 1943 with Beirut as its capital.
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1 day ago · According to a survey released by the "Beirut Center for Research and Information" on 26 July during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's "retaliatory attacks on northern Israel", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February. More striking, however, was the level of support for Hezbollah's ...
1 day ago · Hezbollah was based in the predominately Shiʿi areas of the Biqāʿ Valley, southern Lebanon, and southern Beirut. It coordinated its efforts closely with Iran , from which it acquired substantial logistical support, and drew its manpower largely from disaffected younger, more radical members of Amal.
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4 days ago · The earliest settlement of Beirut was on an island in the Beirut River, but the channel that separated it from the banks silted up and the island ceased to be. Excavations in the downtown area have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, and Ottoman remains. [1]
18 hours ago · OLJ / 28 May 2024 13:33. Beirut's Grand Serail, seat of the Lebanese government. (Photo archives L'Orient-Le Jour) Nagib Mikati's caretaker government was scheduled to meet on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Grand Serail, to consider an agenda whose first item is the question of the Syrian presence in Lebanon. This issue has been in the headlines ...
1 day ago · A Beirut design fair has made a comeback after Lebanon's economic meltdown forced a four-year hiatus, with some pieces on display in spaces devastated in a deadly 2020 port explosion. We Design Beirut, which ended Sunday, exhibited work from more than 150 designers and artisans for four days in several locations in the Lebanese capital.
18 hours ago · By Alastair Crooke. The paradox is that Team Biden – wholly inadvertently – is midwifing the birth of a ‘new world’. It is doing so by dint of its crude opposition to parturition. The more ...
