After a long and involved investigation, a U.N.-backed tribunal emerged with only a single conviction, of a minor Hezbollah figure, in the 2005 bombing that killed the former prime minister of Lebanon …
Coronavirus: Lebanon to impose lockdown as cases spike after explosion
Lebanon will impose a two-week lockdown to contain a surge in coronavirus infections following the devastating explosion in Beirut two weeks ago. Markets, shopping centres, gyms and pools will have to …
The World Is Planning to Rescue the Lebanese, Not Lebanon
The World Is Planning to Rescue the Lebane… There is a saying in Lebanon that the country functions better without a government than with one. That has never been truer than now. Minutes after the …
After the explosion, the virus: Lebanon faces COVID-19 lockdown after Beirut blast
“We are on the brink, we don’t have the luxury to take our time,” Lebanon’s interim Health Minister Hamad Hassan said. As Beirut continues to recover from the port blast that killed at least 178 …
Long-awaited verdict delivered in assassination of Lebanon’s former leader Rafic Hariri
It was a long-waited verdict that comes at a pivotal moment for Lebanon, and it may disappoint many who were desperate to see justice for the brazen assassination. “The court has ruled, and in the …
A Verdict That Pleases No One in Lebanon
But that may not be enough to define him for the electorate. Dispatch: A Verdict That Pleases No One in Lebanon A Verdict That Pleases No One in Lebanon… BEIRUT—Lebanon waited 15 years for the …
Former fighters, farmers in Lebanon step in to help Beirut after explosion
Lebanon is still scarred by civil war three … life because how can I feel like I’m stopping everything?” But with business at a standstill, Mouzawak was able to hire several cooks from …
U.N. Trial Clears Hezbollah, Finds One Guilty of Lebanon Leader’s Death Amid Crisis
An international court has cleared Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement, three of its suspected members as well as its ally, the Syrian government, of wrongdoing in the 2005 assassination of a …
Little Lebanon To Go restaurant won’t reopen after Amer Fakhoury’s death
Little Lebanon got its start in Somersworth in 2003 when Amer and his wife Michelle purchased the former Quick To Go on High Street in Somersworth. They moved the business to 547 Central Ave. in Dover …
Rafiq Hariri: Lebanon braces for UN-backed court’s verdict on assassination of ex-PM
Hariri, a Sunni Muslim business tycoon and Saudi passport holder, had close ties with the United States, western countries but also Gulf Sunni states and at the time of his death was seen as a threat …