On Wednesday, a truck loaded with weapons flipped on the Kahhaleh turn, an area notorious for its hosting of recurrent...
Friday of this week marks three years since the 2020 Beirut Port explosion, which led to at least 218 deaths...
On May 14, a group of men approached a woman at Saida’s public beach and demanded she leave the premises due to her wearing a bikini, which they deemed to be “inappropriate.” This event was met with wide-scale controversy across Lebanon, but the Municipality of Saida’s only response was to...
Amidst the applause and music of a small crowd and a marching band, the tenure of Riad Salameh as Central...
Israeli forces struck an area of Lebanon from which a rocket was launched on Thursday, as per a statement by...
Migrant workers took to Badaro street during International Domestic Workers Day on Sunday, June 18 to march in protest of the kafala system. Their banners, chants, and slogans echoed the same as they have for the past few years: Abolish the Kafala system, allow migrant workers the right to work...
Lebanese parliamentarians failed to elect a new president for the twelfth time on Wednesday, June 14. The session ended after...
Iran and Saudi Arabia took the world by surprise on March 10 when they announced from Beijing an agreement to...
Minister of Information Ziad Makari informed Megaphone co-founder Jean Kassir on Tuesday that Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat had retracted his complaints against the outlet. This comes after State Security had summoned Kassir a second time on Monday, wanting him to appear in front of them on Tuesday morning. The Public...
Editors from two independent media outlets were summoned for questioning by different Lebanese security agencies this week. Jean Kassir, co-founder...
An aftershock of magnitude 6.3 struck Southern Turkey Monday evening, and was felt across the region in Lebanon and Syria....
Back in the 20th century, a new era of structural adjustment programs emerged as a form of aid for countries struggling under the weight of financial and economic burden. This era gained the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the overall Washington consensus a notorious reputation for delivering “one-size-fits-all” approaches to...