Lebanon

  • Dec 11, 2020
  • 2 min read

Lebanese leaders will divert explosion accountability

The caretaker prime minister has been indicted by a judge investigating the deadly Beirut port blast

Lebanon
  • Dec 8, 2020
  • 2 min read

Lebanon faces subsidy cuts and spiralling inflation

The threat of higher prices for essential goods, without social protection, is re-mobilising protesters

Lebanon
  • Dec 4, 2020
  • 2 min read

Lebanese elites may invite economic collapse

Beirut made no effort to meet conditions for a long-promised aid conference, which responded coldly

Lebanon
  • Nov 27, 2020
  • 2 min read

Beirut will win little aid to address deepening crises

Sectarian elites have ignored a French invitation to change their ways

Lebanon
  • Nov 23, 2020
  • 2 min read

Lebanese audit and cabinet failures risk donor exit

An international auditing firm has withdrawn after authorities failed to provide key documents

Lebanon
  • Nov 17, 2020
  • 7 min read

Prospects for the Levant in 2021

The countries in the wider Levant region, east of the Mediterranean Sea, face some similar trials despite diversity

Lebanon
  • Nov 11, 2020
  • 2 min read

Talks and tensions leave Lebanon-Israel ties in stasis

Amid mutual accusations of incursions by land, Lebanese and Israeli negotiators return to dispute their maritime border

Lebanon
  • Nov 6, 2020
  • 2 min read

A new US sanctions push might tip Beirut over the edge

The Trump administration is reportedly moving to target a key Christian politician

Lebanon