After a 30-year tenure, Riad Salameh left on Monday his post as the Central Bank Governor amid an unprecedented socioeconomic crisis plaguing Lebanon. Salameh was appointed in 1993 with the advent of the late prime minister Rafik Hariri who established the rentier economic policy funded by huge debts. It is ...
Lebanese youths severed the barbed fence positioned since 2006 by the UNIFIL troops on the road linking Al-Abbasiyyeh and Al-Wazzani areas and neighboring the Lebanese part of Al-Ghajar town occupied by the Israeli enemy. The groups of young men, holding the Resistance flags, challenged the unfair UNIFIL decision and crossed ...