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Mona Khalil, a civilian and defender of marine turtles, seriously injured after an Israeli strike in Mansuri, South Lebanon.

Born in Hama in the 1870s, the halawet el-jibn are sweet rolls with cheese and semolina, stuffed with diashta and watered with fragrant syrup. From the Salloura family to Tripoli, this dessert illustrates the artisanal ingenuity and gourmet identity of the Levant.

The invisible pact Many Lebanese think that the problem comes from a man, a party or a government. Yet decades pass, faces change and crises follow, but the result often remains the same. As if real power was not held by those occupying the institutions but by a mechanism [...]

The indictment of HSBC Private Bank Switzerland in France marks a major step in the Riad Salamé case. The Swiss subsidiary of the banking group is suspected of having facilitated the laundering of more than $300 million allegedly diverted from the Bank of Lebanon via Forry Associates. For Lebanese depositors, this development moves the survey to international banks that would have allowed the funds to circulate.

Hezbollah informed the Lebanese authorities of its refusal to accept the ceasefire agreement announced in Washington between Lebanon and Israel. The position was passed on to the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, who shares the same line, according to a leader of the movement quoted by a news agency. This rejection comes as Israeli operations continue in southern Lebanon, further weakening a text already criticized for its asymmetry.

Joseph Aoun calls the ceasefire agreement a last opportunity, but waits for guarantees and final approval.

The WHO report shows a ravaged Lebanon's health: hospitals hit, caregivers killed, displaced and diseases on the rise.

Berlin's support for Israel is in Germany's failure to obtain a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

The joint communiqué imposed conditions in Lebanon, but remained silent on the Israeli withdrawal, the displaced and the cessation of the strikes.

On 4 June 1982, the political shift was marked by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. After the attempted assassination of Shlomo Argov in London, Israel struck the PLO, while the attack was attributed to the Abu Nidal network, an enemy of Yasser Arafat. Forty-four years later, this sequence sheds light on the birth of Hezbollah, the limits of so-called limited operations and the current risks of strategic repetition in southern Lebanon.

A UNIFIL blue helmet died on Thursday, 4 June 2026 after the fall of mortar shells at its position near Marjayoun, in south-eastern Lebanon. Two other peacekeepers were injured. The incident occurred a few hours after the announcement of a conditional cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel, while the UN mission observed a worrying increase in trajectories and impacts in the South.

The Lebanese authorities are relaunching René-Muawad airport in the north, but the contracts, the companies selected and the viability of the project raise public questions.

Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement: conditions, pilot areas, role of Hezbollah and the issue of Israeli withdrawal.

Trump wants to separate Lebanon from negotiations with Iran, but this dissociation confirms the interdependence of the two issues.