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Lebanon Welcomes The New Year in Style Published December 31st, 2020 - 08:42 GMT (Shutterstock) Highlights Citizens have also been ordered not to celebrate by shooting guns into the air, and dancing in bars and restaurants has already been banned. Lebanon has begun the countdown to what are expected to be muted New Year’s Eve celebrations. Despite some hotels and nightclubs reporting healthy bookings for parties and events, the country’s dire economic situation and a surge in coron...

BEIRUT: Lebanon has begun the countdown to what are expected to be muted New Year’s Eve celebrations. Despite some hotels and nightclubs reporting healthy bookings for parties and events, the country’s dire economic situation and a surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases is likely to result in most citizens seeing in 2021 at home. Shops and catering stores have been relatively busy with people buying items to mark New Year’s Eve and pre-ordering home deliveries of food. Hotels hosti...

The Internal Security Forces on Wednesday announced the arrest of a member of the Islamic State jihadist group who had monitored a military post between Furn el-Chebbak and Ain el-Rummaneh and pubs and cafes in Badaro. In a statement, the ISF said its Intelligence Branch arrested the 20-year-old Syrian militant on Monday, seizing two cellphones that were in his possession. He had joined the IS group in Syria’s Deir Ezzor before fleeing to Lebanon in late 2017, the statement added, citing the ...

Democratic Union Party (PYD) spokesperson Sama Baghdash. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Sama Baghdash, the spokesperson of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Kurdistan 24 on Monday that the intra-Kurdish dialogue between the main Syrian Kurdish political parties will continue after the formation of a new US administration. “Due to the absence of monitoring parties [US diplomats], our meetings have been on hold for a while,” Bagdash told Kurdistan 24, noting that the intr...

Caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi stressed on Tuesday that the investigation will continue until the perpetrators involved in the killing of Joseph Bejjani in Kahale a day earlier are caught. The Minister stressed that he is “closely following up on the case until the criminals are revealed,” stressing that the crime “shall not pass” unaccounted. Fahmi’s remarks came during a meeting with mayor of Kahale, Jean Bejjani. He briefed him on the contacts he had made immediately af...

SHARE A Lebanese photographer was shot to death by hooded men on Monday morning as he prepared to take his children to school . his car outside his home in the mountain village of Kahaleh, about 13km from Beirut. As he prepares to drive off, two men arrive on a motorcycle and approach the car. They open the drivers door and shoot Bejjany several times with silenced pistols. The men then flee off-camera on foot. They are still at large. Lebanon’s state news agency said Bejjany died of his ...

Former justice minister and ex-Internal Security Forces head Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi replied on Saturday to Marada Movement leader Suleiman Franjieh, saying the official should have pointed his finger at the main parties responsible for the presence of ammonium nitrate that triggered Beirut’s deadly explosion on August 4. “You held the security agencies responsible and they do bear part of it, but you should have rather accused the main and not the secondary players,” said Rifi in a tweet a...

Judge Ghada Aoun has filed a lawsuit with Judge Nicolas Mansour against Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Imad Othman and Brig. Gen. Hussein Saleh on charges of dereliction of duty, media reports said on Friday. The move comes after the ISF General Directorate “prevented the Dahiyeh department from aiding Aoun in the subsidized dollar investigations,” LBCI TV reported. Aoun had recently summoned to interrogation a number of so-called Class A money changers and a central bank employee...

Nine out of 10 Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in extreme poverty, UN says Up from 55 percent previous year, the portion of Syrian refugees struggling to survive has expanded amid compounded crises in Lebanon Syrian refugees look out from a building used as shelter in southern Lebanese city of Sidon in March (AFP/File photo) By Published date: 18 December 2020 19:30 UTC | Last update: 3 months 1 week ago Nine out of 10 Syrian refugee fam...

The Internal Security Forces said Friday it wants to make the public aware of a scammer that is impersonating Valet to park cars offered by some restaurants, stores, and other businesses to steal the vehicles of customers. ISF said in a statement that the suspect stole two vehicles on 11-11-2020 and on 1-12-2020 from Zalqa area, by pretending to work as a Valet Parking’ employee. He then escaped to an unidentified location. Police kicked off surveillance operations and were able to locate his...