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Mohammad Reza Chibani, Ambassador designated by Iran but declared persona non grata by Lebanon in March, obtained on Monday a six-month residence permit issued by the General Security. The formula allows him to remain in Lebanese territory without regaining his ambassador status or diplomatic immunity. This decision comes within a few hours of the expiry of his right of residence and contradicts in its effect the position of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who demanded his departure.

A major fire was declared on Monday 24 August in the vicinity of the Tannourine Cedar Nature Reserve in the Batrun District. The steep terrain complicates emergency response, while Civil Defence teams and a Lebanese Army helicopter attempt to prevent flames from reaching the densest areas of the cedral. A firefighter was slightly injured by the explosion of an old mine. The exact extent of the damage remains to be determined.

Two 17-year-old Lebanese teenagers, Hussein Shakrun and Ahmad Rumani, were killed by an Israeli drone strike against their motorcycle in the Doha Kfar Rummane area near Nabatiyah. Their bodies were found on Monday after a disappearance reported the day before. Their death occurred on another day of Israeli operations in South Lebanon, with a sharp explosion in Kfar Tebnit, dynamiting of houses in Khiam and Majdal Zun and earthworks between Haddatha and Haris.

A donkey belonging to a Palestinian farmer was stolen and dragged behind a vehicle until his death in the southern occupied West Bank, near Hebron. Images broadcast on August 22 show the animal being shot on a road. This act of cruelty occurs in a region where Palestinian rural communities denounce an increase in settler attacks, cattle theft and restrictions on access to land, pasture and water.

Hezbollah no longer completely precludes direct contact with Washington. Mahmoud Qmati, a member of his Political Council, states that the decision will depend on the party's interests and circumstances, while defending the current military patience to give the political process a chance. This cautious opening comes as the Israeli strikes continue in southern Lebanon, the heights of Ali al-Taher remain under pressure and the Hezbollah weapons issue remains at the centre of the negotiations.

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Tom Barrack claims that the Golan belongs to Syria according to UN resolutions and international law, while Donald Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty on the plateau in 2019. But the debate no longer concerns only the territory occupied since 1967. Since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad in December 2024, the Israeli army has also controlled additional positions in Syrian territory, particularly in the buffer zone and around Mount Hermon. Washington must now clarify what Syrian territorial integrity it intends to defend.

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The European Union would have prepared a first package of sanctions against Israel that could be activated if construction started in E1 in the occupied West Bank. According to Channel 13, which cites two Western diplomats, the proposed measures could affect trade, academic relations and certain diplomatic and security cooperation. The issue goes beyond E1: Brussels could question its practice of distinguishing settlements in the West Bank from its relations with Israel itself.

On a visit to Tyre on Friday, 21 August, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam gave the Lebanese army's deployment in the South a range far beyond security. For the head of government, every position held by the military must materialize the return of the state, its authority and its sovereignty. It links this strategy with the strengthening of the army, international support and, above all, the restoration by the constitutional institutions of the decision on war and peace.

From the steam trains of 1895 to the ghost stations of today: the forgotten history of the Lebanese railway, from Beirut to Rayak.