List of Lebanon articles
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GettyImages-Syr If You’re a Refugee Dreaming of America, Don’t Come to Lebanon
This tiny country already hosts more than 1 million Syrians — and the U.S. resettlement process for them is completely broken.
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MELILLA, SPAIN - JANUARY 22: Syrian refugees who were staying at the Temporary Immigration Centre (CETI) wait for getting their passports and tickets at the the Ferry Terminal of Melilla where they will board a cruise bound to Malaga on the Spanish mailland on January 22, 2015 in Melilla, Spain. According to Spanish Police approximately 2,400 from the 5,000 immigrants entering Melilla last year were Syrians seeking asylum in various European countries. The majority of those now housed in Temporary Immigration Centres (CETI) in Ceuta and Melilla have escaped from war in Syria. According to the last official figures released by the Spanish Authorities, 1,300 immigrants are living at the Temporary Immigration Centre of Melilla, four times its capacity of 480 people. About 840 Syrian refugees are among them outnumbering Sub-Sahara immigrants for the first time since these camps were built. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) The Process for Interviewing, Vetting, and Resettling Syrian Refugees in America Is Incredibly Long and Thorough
I should know — I’ve been doing it.
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putin-76201692 Russia Asks Lebanon to Close Its Airspace
The announcement potentially signals a new phase in Moscow's air war in Syria.
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US President Barack Obama smiles during a state dinner in Berlin,on June 19, 2013. Obama said Russian and US nuclear weapons should be slashed by up to a third in a keynote speech in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate in which he called for a world of "peace and justice". AFP PHOTO /POOL/ MICHAEL SOHN (Photo credit should read MICHAEL SOHN/AFP/Getty Images) Obama Got It Right on the Islamic State
The United States can't defeat the jihadist group — it can only hope to contain it.
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An employee of the public prosecutor's office, the Department of Criminal Evidence, looks at illegal drugs, which are to be set on fire in an incinerator, in Sanaa February 29, 2012. Yemeni authorities burned more than four tons of hashish and 4.6 million tablets of Captagon, which weighed 16kg (35 pounds). AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) Syria’s Speed Freaks, Jihad Junkies, and Captagon Cartels
The chaos of the war against Bashar al-Assad is fueling the rise of a dangerous, new super-amphetamine across the Middle East.
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Emergency personnel inspect the debris at the site of a twin suicide bombing in Burj al-Barajneh, in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut on November 12, 2015. At least 37 people have been killed and more than 180 wounded after twin suicide bombings rocked the southern suburb of the capital. AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images) Ahead of Vienna Summit, Islamic State Militants Attack Beirut
Days before world leaders are set to gather in Vienna to discuss a solution to the crisis in Syria, Islamic State militants launched suicide attacks in Beirut.
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BEDFORD, ENGLAND - APRIL 26: A re-enactor's armour is removed after a display on the first day of the 'St George's Festival' at the English Heritage's Wrest Park estate on April 26, 2014 near Bedford, England. 'St George's Festival' at Wrest Park takes place on April 26 and 27, 2014 and features reenactments of various eras of British history from medieval times to the First World War. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 22: Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing to continue its investigation on the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at theÊdiplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya,Êon the evening of September 11, 2012. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) That Time Reagan Explained Away the Murder of Americans Abroad With an Analogy About Kitchen Repairs
Watching Hillary Clinton’s grueling Benghazi testimony, it’s amazing how far the United States has come in facing — and fearing — threats to national security from the Middle East.
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Palestinian refugees look outside their home's windows as damage appear on the wall of the building following clashes the night before between Islamic militants and Fatah fighters in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp outside the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on March 22, 2008. Quiet returned to Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp today after a ceasefire between Islamic militants of Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of Damascus) and fighters of the mainstream Fatah faction ended heavy clashes. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images) ‘The Smugglers Are Vampires’
Death is everywhere in the impoverished, violent corners of Lebanon — but refugees who try to seek a better life in Europe often find themselves robbed blind or facing death at sea.
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A Hezbollah militant looks through his binoculars in Umm Khorj in the Lebanese eastern mountain range close to the Syrian border on October 9, 2014, after capturing the area from Islamic State (IS) militants. Lebanon's border with Syria is not officially defined and much of it is porous and unpatrolled, with local residents, smugglers and others moving freely across it. AFP PHOTO/SAM SKAINE (Photo credit should read SAM SKAINE/AFP/Getty Images) The Rocks in Lebanon Have Eyes
The Lebanese armed forces have destroyed a spying device after discovering it in southern Lebanon, disguised as a rock.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY RANA MOUSSAOUI Lebanon's Central Bank governor Riyad Salameh speaks during an interview with AFP at his office in Beirut on November 21, 2008. Lebanon for now has managed to steer clear of the financial crisis that has spread worldwide but is keeping close watch on its expatriate community which injects much-needed money into the economy. AFP PHOTO/RAMZI HAIDAR (Photo credit should read RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP/Getty Images) ‘If They Want Me, They Will Call Me’
Riad Salameh, the governor of Lebanon’s central bank and mooted presidential candidate, sits down with Foreign Policy to talk political protests and the economic impact of the Syrian war.
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GettyImages-482121996_garbage1 Could Trash Talk Bring Iran and Saudi Arabia Together?
A modest proposal for how Lebanon’s garbage could bring an end to the fiercest rivalry in the Middle East.
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CNbdbFbWUAARNfT This Map Shows Why a Syrian Cease-fire Might Not Be as Good as It Seems
A cease-fire quiets the fighting in three Syrian towns, but does little to change the war's trajectory.
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Lebanese demonstraters take shelter behind a rubbish container during clashes with security forces following a demonstration, organised by the "You Stink" campaign, against the ongoing trash crisis in the capital Beirut on August 22, 2015. Thousands of protesters, including children, gathered to protest the Lebanese government's inability to find a lasting solution to the country's worsening waste problem. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) There’s Something Rotten in Lebanon
And it’s not just the fetid mountains of trash in the streets.
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GettyImages-484755243crop Read the Departing U.K. Ambassador in Beirut’s Funny, Touching Farewell to Lebanon
Tom Fletcher says goodbye to all that.
