Tag: lebanon

• What just happened to Hezbollah?

  January 9, 2025

  Folks at Mossad HQ will be cracking open the arak after pulling off what appears to be the most brazen intelligence operation against Hezbollah in history. At around 3.30pm Tuesday… more ›

• ‘Our seeds, our roots’: Sowing hope as Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon

  December 1, 2024

  Bekaa Valley, Lebanon – A warm wind blows over the rocky, arid landscape of the Lebanon-Syria border, ruffling the silhouettes walking slowly through the mountain pass, clambering around two huge… more ›

• How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah

  October 16, 2024

  BEIRUT, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The batteries inside the weaponised pagers that arrived in Lebanon at the start of the year, part of an Israeli plot to decimate Hezbollah, had powerfully deceptive… more ›

• Beirut, at Sunset

  December 31, 2023

  On August 4, 2020 a massive explosion ripped through the beleaguered city’s port, killing 218 people and injuring 7,000. The explosion was not an act of terrorism or war but… more ›

• ‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state

  May 7, 2021

  In the summer of 2015 a businessman in the Syrian province of Latakia was approached by a powerful security chief, seeking a favour. The official wanted the merchant, an importer… more ›

• From Chile to Lebanon, Protests Flare Over Wallet Issues

  October 24, 2019

  Pocketbook items have become the catalysts for popular fury across the globe in recent weeks. LONDON — In Chile, the spark was an increase in subway fares. In Lebanon, it… more ›

• The Atlas Group (1989-2004). A Project by Walid…

  February 7, 2017

  The Atlas Group (1989-2004). A Project by Walid Raad » Existing since 1999, The Atlas Group participated in major international exhibitions like the Documenta 11 and the Whitney Biennial 2002,… more ›