by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 23, 2022 | Arab News
Lebanon’s security forces have seized a large quantity of Captagon at the Port of Beirut that was destined for Sudan, officials said on Thursday. More than 165 kilograms of the amphetamine-type stimulant — the equivalent of around one million tablets — were...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 8, 2022 | Arab News
The head of the Mossad intelligence service told government officials that Hizbullah is likely to attempt a limited attack on Israeli-controlled facilities in a disputed offshore gas field. Israel has put troops on alert in the north of the country after a maritime...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 8, 2022 | Arab News
The director of Israel’s Energy Ministry reportedly told ministers at Thursday’s security cabinet meeting that estimates on how much natural gas could be extracted from a reservoir at the center of a maritime dispute between Israel and Lebanon were far less than...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 7, 2022 | Arab News, Health
Lebanon has reported its first cholera case in almost three decades in Akkar, an impoverished region in the north that borders Syria. The patient, a man from Syria, is in a stable condition and receiving treatment in hospital, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said. It...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 3, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Lebanon has said it received a letter from US envoy Amos Hochstein containing “proposals ” on a maritime border deal with Israel that could settle competing claims over offshore gasfields. President Michel Aoun met US ambassador Dorothy Shea “who...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 3, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has described a draft of the US-brokered deal demarcating a disputed maritime border with Israel as positive. On Saturday, the Lebanese presidency said Beirut had received a letter from US mediator Amos Hochstein on...
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