Alhurra

At Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport, flight announcements mingle with quick embraces between those saying goodbye and expectant smiles on the faces of arrivals. Passports are stamped, planes take off one after another into Beirut’s sky, as if sending reassuring messages that life is proceeding as usual. A few kilometers away, at the Port of…

In her home in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, Maya, 38, opens a small cabinet near the front door. Inside is a neatly packed black sports bag. “It has our identification papers, some cash and jewelry, and clothes for the children,” she says. She has not told her children the truth. She simply says…

The Lebanese army has completed the first phase of restricting Hezbollah’s weapons south of the Litani River, in a move that appeared to close a sensitive chapter that had remained open for years. The army deployed according to the approved plan, and the state appeared to be asserting its presence in an area that had…

The U.S. Department of State announced that it had ordered the evacuation of a number of U.S. Embassy employees in Lebanon along with their families. Sources at the embassy told Alhurra that the mission continues to operate with its full core staff, stressing that the move is temporary and aimed at ensuring the safety of…

For decades, Palestinian Islamic Jihad had a home in Damascus. The Assad regime sheltered it, Iran supplied it, and Hezbollah connected it to fighters in Gaza. That infrastructure is gone now. The movement is running low on options.  Last week, IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced the targeting of two PIJ members near Majdal Anjar, a town on the Lebanese-Syrian border,…

Each time tensions escalate in the region, Lebanon returns to the forefront of difficult questions. A country burdened by chronic crises once again finds itself standing at the edge of the most dangerous possibility: being transformed into a battlefield in a conflict that transcends its geographic and political boundaries. That possibility has grown heavier following…

The issue of an unidentified drone being shot down at dawn on Monday above the Hamat military air base in northern Lebanon has drawn widespread attention. The base hosts U.S. forces involved in training members of the Lebanese Armed Forces. Amid unconfirmed media reports suggesting that the drone was Iranian, high-level security sources told Alhurra…

In Lebanon, political change is measured by the language that frames it rather than by its immediate effects. Words evolve before actions do, and older terms are gradually replaced. Over roughly a year, official statements have moved from advocating Hezbollah’s “disarmament” to limiting its weapons to state control, finally settling on the more flexible concept…

At the entrance to a fuel station in Beirut, Abu Mohammad stands in a long line. He says any increase in fuel prices will come straight out of his daily bread. A taxi driver for 20 years and a father of three, he drives a car with peeling paint and worn-out seats. It is his…