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Significant decisions by the Council of Ministers: Explosives threaten the country’s security and will be referred to the Judicial Council

Al Liwaa: Local and cross-border contacts succeeded in containing tension and frustration that had prevailed until the Council of Ministers session, which did not refer the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives case to the Judicial Council, opting to proceed with investigations before a possible referral at another session, a move that angered the Lebanese Forces ministers, who…

Al Liwaa
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Macron Levels Blunt Accusations at the Far Left.. Tomorrow’s Demonstrations Banned

Al Liwaa: French authorities decided yesterday to ban new demonstrations or impose restrictions on them following protests at the end of last week that were marked by widespread violence, while President Emmanuel Macron accused groups on the far left of seeking to “overthrow the Republic.” Macron announced at the end of a meeting held at the headquarters…

Al Liwaa
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The situation in the region and internal divisions make near-term breakthroughs in Lebanon unlikely

Al Liwaa: All regional developments indicate that the regional situation has reached a high level of tension on the eve of the American and Israeli elections, while Lebanon’s domestic situation remains unchanged, marked by tension and division over procedural matters and over crucial national issues. The events of recent weeks have shown that…

Al Liwaa
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Can Eizenkot wrest Netanyahu’s base away?

Al Liwaa: The Israeli election battle does not hinge on the number of seats each bloc will win, but on Gadi Eizenkot’s ability to attract part of the social base that has kept Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud in power for decades. The war, security failures, and the Haredi conscription crisis are opening cracks within…

Al Liwaa
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Will the Israeli elections change the rules of engagement in Lebanon?

Al Liwaa: Five days before Israelis head to the ballot boxes, Lebanon faces a pivotal question that opinion polls cannot answer precisely: Do the Israeli elections scheduled for the twenty-seventh of October this month have the ability to change the rules of engagement and confrontation in southern Lebanon,…

Al Liwaa
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Makhzoumi met with the Saudi ambassador: Loyalty to Taif means implementing it in full

Al Liwaa: MP Fouad Makhzoumi visited Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Dr. Fahd Al-Dosari and said: “I was pleased to meet with him, and we exchanged views on a number of issues related to Lebanese affairs and current regional developments. On the anniversary of the Taif Agreement, I affirmed our commitment to this agreement as a pact for national consensus…”

Al Liwaa
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Cabinet defuses the “Dahr al-Baidar explosives” issue, and the “Lebanese Forces” ministers withdraw

Al Liwaa: At its session held yesterday at Baabda Palace, chaired by President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun and attended by Prime Minister Dr. Nawaf Salam and the ministers, the Cabinet decided to proceed with the investigation into the explosives case without any restrictions or limits other than the limits of the law, and to continue discussing the Justice Ministry’s request to refer the case…

Al Liwaa
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Is Lebanon caught between a strike and a deal?

Al Liwaa: Lebanon stands suspended, waiting on the sidelines for the course of developments between the United States and Iran, whether peace or war. It cannot emerge on its own from the crisis of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, nor stop the daily Israeli attacks and the demolitions and bulldozing of homes and property, while conditions…

Al Liwaa
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The Dahr al-Baydar bombing case reopens the debate over the exclusivity of arms

Al Liwaa: Lebanon’s political authorities are monitoring the contacts and developments concerning the Iranian-American file, while officials are following the details of positions, warnings and expectations regarding any new escalation whose shrapnel could hit Lebanon, especially since Israel is prepared to wage war against Iran and Hezbollah together. And it has become…

Al Liwaa
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Mufti Daryan received a delegation from Qatar’s Ministry of Awqaf and discussed the situation with a delegation from Al-Maqasid and the head of «Beirut Manarati»

Al Liwaa: The Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan, received at Dar al-Fatwa the head of the «Beirut Manarati» Association, lawyer Marwan Salam, who said after the meeting: “We affirmed to His Eminence that Dar al-Fatwa is our reference, its master’s standing is our standing, and his dignity is our dignity. We will not allow anyone, no matter how highly regarded, to undermine…

Al Liwaa
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Fadlallah: Caution and discernment are needed regarding the repercussions of any decision taken

Al Liwaa: The scholar Sayyed Ali Fadlallah received the political, environmental and reform activist Dr. Sami al-Rishouni, and they discussed health and environmental affairs and developments in Lebanon and the region. At the outset, al-Rishouni affirmed “the depth of the relationship that binds him to the household of the late religious authority Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah,” placing…

Al Liwaa
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Lebanon’s First Lady at the Children’s Well-Being Summit in Uzbekistan: Investing in Children Is Investing in the Future of Society

Al Liwaa: Lebanon’s First Lady, Mrs. Neemat Aoun, took part in the Second International Conference on Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, held as part of the Summit on Children’s Well-Being in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, at the invitation of First Lady Ziroat Mirziyoyeva, and within the framework of the Global Summit on Investing in Child Well-Being, attended by the first ladies…

Al Liwaa
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He and She 23-10-2026

Al Liwaa: ☐SWIM Initiative Association is organizing, at nine o’clock tomorrow morning, Saturday, in cooperation with Calypso Diving Center, a cleanup campaign for the Bat Cave and the caves adjacent to the Raouche Rock, under the patronage of: Environment Minister Dr. Tamara El Zein, Beirut Governor Judge Marwan Abboud, and the head of the municipal council…

Al Liwaa
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Withdrawal in Service of the Mini-State and to Confuse the State..?

Al Liwaa: It is no small matter for the Lebanese Forces ministers to withdraw from the cabinet session in protest at the failure to refer the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives case to the Judicial Council. The case is extremely serious, and demanding that it be referred to the highest exceptional judicial authority is a legitimate political right, but leaving the session does not serve the investigation, nor…

Al Liwaa
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Mustafa Sbaiti... The Poet of the South and Guardian of Classical Arabic

Al Liwaa: The passing of the southern Lebanese poet Mustafa Sbaiti on 19 September 2026 was not merely the passing of a poet, but the loss of a poetic and cultural experience that, over decades, was bound to the Arabic language, the South, humanity and its causes, and the memory of a homeland whose transformations, defeats and dreams the poet lived through. He passed away, leaving behind collections…

Al Liwaa
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The Sermon on Death: A Reminder for Heedless Hearts and Negligent Souls

Al Liwaa: Dr. Marwan Mohieddine Badr. Praise be to God, who decreed death for His servants, made this world a place of passage, not a place of settlement, and made the Hereafter the abode of permanence. May prayers and peace be upon our master Muhammad, who delivered the message, fulfilled the trust, advised the community, and through whom God dispelled distress, and upon all his family and companions. To proceed, O you…

Al Liwaa
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Islamic Indications 23-10-2026

Al Liwaa:  The legal review with which the muftis intervened to invalidate the Shura Council’s latest report revealed numerous violations in the body of the report, in addition to citing foreign texts and testimonies unrelated to the substance of the case at the heart of the complaint.  A Shiite authority strongly opposed to the doctrine of “Wilayat al-Faqih” stopped…

Al Liwaa
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“Lebanon Judges Club” denounces threats at the Tripoli Palace of Justice

Lebanon 24: In a statement, the “Lebanon Judges Club” denounced “the threats and acts of intimidation witnessed at the Tripoli Palace of Justice,” warning of “the danger of the continued absence of the necessary protection for judges, lawyers, litigants and employees in Palaces of Justice.” Advertisement The club affirmed that “protecting the justice facility and securing the requirements for its work…”

Lebanon 24
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The Front Page

Ad-Diyar: Tensions escalated 4 days before the Israeli legislative elections, coinciding with an escalation in attacks by occupation forces in the south, amid a wave of high-level threats against Lebanon and Iran. As the region remains on tenterhooks with the “drums of war” beating again, the Lebanese breathed a sigh of relief…

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Front Page

Ad-Diyar: Hanna Ayyoub, Abdel Moneim Ali Issa: What does it mean for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to come out and congratulate the Turkish and Syrian intelligence services on the arrest of Miraj Orale, known as Ali Kayali, while Agence France-Presse reports, citing a Lebanese security source, that the man was kidnapped from Mansourieh, without the authorities’ knowledge…

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Geagea escalates against Hezbollah: Either the state wins in the Dahr al-Baydar file or it loses

Ad-Diyar: Lebanese Forces Party leader Samir Geagea affirmed that his party’s positions stem from political convictions, not populist considerations, saying that “the height of populism was the Taif Agreement,” and noting that the “Lebanese Forces” know well the cost that resulted from it. In an interview with the “Saar el-Waat” program, he noted…

Ad-Diyar
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Jumblatt “Reads” the “Party’s” Future

ASAS Media: The war was not a failed military adventure, but a reckless gamble with the future of the South and the interests of the Shiites before anyone else. This is exactly what Walid Jumblatt tried to warn about through the messages he conveyed to Sayyed Nasr…

ASAS Media
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tayyar.org - Patriarch Minassian: The blood of the innocent cries out against terrorism, and Christians remain in their land

Tayyar: With deep sorrow and strong condemnation, His Beatitude Patriarch Raphael Bedros XXI Minassian, Catholicos Patriarch of the Armenian Catholics’ House of Cilicia, received the news of the terrorist attack that targeted St. George’s Church in Karak Governorate in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, leaving casualties and wounded…

Tayyar
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Al-Khatib praised Berri’s positions: We will be the safety valve to prevent strife

El Shark: Deputy head of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council, the scholar Sheikh Ali Al-Khatib, expressed surprise in his Friday sermon at the council’s headquarters at “the authorities’ insistence on continuing negotiations with the Israeli enemy despite the repeated failure in all the rounds that have taken place.” He said: “It appears from the available information that…

El Shark
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Al-Assad meets UNRWA director in Lebanon

El Shark: The Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Lebanon, Dr. Mohammad Al-Assad, met yesterday with the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Dorothy Klaus, in the presence of the head of the embassy’s media department, Wissam Abu Zaid. They discussed the situation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and ways to improve their living conditions and livelihoods, in addition…

El Shark
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Egypt’s ambassador continued his introductory tour

El Shark: Minister of Interior and Municipalities Ahmad al-Hajjar received the ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Tamim Khilaf, on a courtesy visit. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to strengthen them and develop prospects for joint cooperation, particularly in the security fields. The Egyptian ambassador also visited the head of the party…

El Shark
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The negotiating round in Tampa ends without breakthroughs

El Shark: A U.S. source told Al Hadath that the meetings held in the city of Tampa, in the U.S. state of Florida, between the Lebanese and Israeli sides ended without any notable breakthroughs. The source explained that the negotiating rounds concluded without a date being set for a new round, noting that the point…

El Shark
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The Prime Minister met with the Minister of Industry, Bou Saab, Efram and Hout

El Shark: Prime Minister Dr. Nawaf Salam received MP Neamat Efram at the Grand Serail, and discussed the general situation with him. He also received former minister and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Saint Joseph University, Dr. Marie-Claude Najm. In the afternoon, President Salam received the Deputy Speaker of the…

El Shark
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Aoun discussed the situation with the Kuwaiti ambassador and received Saeed and a delegation from the “Hague Conference”

El Shark: President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun received yesterday at Baabda Palace, in the presence of Justice Minister Adel Nassar and the Netherlands’ ambassador to Lebanon, Frank Mollen, the secretary-general of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, Christophe Bernasconi, who outlined the conference’s scope of work and the membership of many Arab countries…

El Shark
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