On today’s front page: The inside story of the campaign to choke off Hezbollah’s finances — and how pressure from Washington and Israel is reshaping Iran’s most powerful proxy.
w/ @EricSchmittNYT @ronenbergman @hwaida_saad
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For @NewYorker, I wrote about Lebanon’s most intractable problem: disarming Hezbollah without tearing the country apart. It begins in a Beirut courtroom, with three fighters and a ten-dollar fine.
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>3000 ppl have been killed in this war. I wrote about 1 strike on Black Wednesday for @NewYorker. The violence, pain, loss & also love, esp. of Arab men who are too often dehumanized. It’s a story that, these days, unfolds somewhere in #Lebanon every day
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BIG SCOOP: US-Israel goal was to install former President Ahmadinejad as Iran's leader (aka Delcy)
An Israeli strike designed to free him from house arrest was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power. w/ @MarkMazzettiNYT @julianbarnes @ronenbergman
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New US sanctions hit several Hezbollah officials, MPs, and Iran’s ambassador-designate to Beirut who was PNG’d but refuses to leave. Additionally, two officials from Lebanon’s Armed Forces and General Security were also designated for sharing intel with Hezbollah.
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Here are the photos that won the @nytimesphoto Gaza photographer Saher Alghorra a 2026 @PulitzerPrizes -- taken under impossible, dangerous conditions even as he lacked supplies and even food. The world is in his debt for chronicling conditions in Gaza. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/world…
Breaking a longstanding diplomatic taboo, Lebanon’s government took a gamble by holding direct talks with Israel — a bet that appears, for now, to have paid off.
Turning a short-term truce into something lasting, however, will be a far greater challenge:
nytimes.com/2026/04/17/world…
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Israel is considering a short-term cease-fire in Lebanon that could pause the war against Iran-backed Hezbollah, three Israeli officials said on Wednesday.
The Israeli government has yet to formally sign off on the truce, and the discussions around it remained fluid. It could be discussed by Israel’s high-level security cabinet when it meets on Wednesday night,one of the officials said.
W\ @aboxerman1 and @euanward_ via @nytimes
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With U.S. and Iran set to meet for peace talks in Pakistan, Israel and Lebanon’s ambassadors to Washington spoke by phone on Friday, officials told the @nytimes.
Direct talks are set to take place next week in Washington, but expectations low:
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Lebanese presidency confirms our reporting in statement, and says that Israeli-Lebanese talks next week will “discuss announcing a ceasefire and setting a date for negotiations”:
صدر عن مكتب الإعلام في رئاسة الجمهورية البيان الاتي:
بناء على المبادرة التي اطلقها رئيس الجمهورية العماد جوزاف عون والتي ترتكز على العمل الدبلوماسي من خلال الإعلان عن وقف لإطلاق النار والذهاب إلى التفاوض المباشر مع إسرائيل ، وبعد الاتصالات الدولية والعربية التي اجراها الرئيس عون مؤخراً في ضوء تصاعد الاعتداءات الاسرائيلية على لبنان ، قررت الإدارة الاميركية تكليف وزارة الخارجية الاميركية القيام بدور الوسيط بين لبنان واسرائيل .
وتنفيذا لذلك ، وبناء على توجيهات الرئيس عون للسفيرة اللبنانية في واشنطن ، تم إتصال هاتفي عند التاسعة مساء بتوقيت بيروت ، هو الأول بين لبنان ممثلا بسفيرته في واشنطن ندى حمادة معوض وإسرائيل ممثلة بسفيرها في واشنطن يحئيل ليتر ، وبمشاركة سفير الولايات المتحدة الاميركية في بيروت ميشال عيسى الموجود في واشنطن .
وتم خلال الاتصال التوافق على عقد اول اجتماع يوم الثلاثاء المقبل في مقر الخارجية الاميركية للبحث في الإعلان عن وقف لإطلاق النار وموعد بدء التفاوض بين لبنان واسرائيل برعاية أميركية .
Israeli drones whirred overhead as ambulances pulled into the Beirut hospital, one after another, ferrying bodies from the rubble.
There, families clustered around a truck serving as a morgue, searching for their loved ones.
w/ @hwaida_saad @cegoldbaum
nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world…
Israel launched 100 strikes on Lebanon in just 10 minutes, shattering hopes of a cease-fire. At least 112 people were killed. “It’s like they started just striking everywhere, no warnings, nothing,” said Abir Majed, whose building was hit.
w/ @cegoldbaum
nytimes.com/2026/04/08/world…
Israel’s defense minister has outlined plans to occupy much of southern Lebanon, offering his clearest indication yet that Israel intends to control the region even after its ground invasion ends.
nytimes.com/2026/03/31/world…
NEW: Two UN peacekeepers traveling in a convoy were killed when it was “struck by an explosion of undetermined origin” in southern Lebanon on Monday, according to a UN report seen by @nytimes. It followed the killing of another peacekeeper a day earlier.
nytimes.com/2026/03/30/world…
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As Israel, again, kills journalists, here's what @pressfreedom said last year:
"Israel, in particular, has repeatedly killed journalists whom it subsequently - and in some cases preemptively - alleged were militants, without providing credible evidence to support its claims.
"To date, CPJ reporting has found that no one has been held accountable for any targeted killings of a journalist by Israel since October 7, 2023, or in the preceding 22 years."
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Lebanon ordered the expulsion of Iran’s newly appointed ambassador on Tuesday, a rare rebuke of Tehran over its backing of Hezbollah that capped months of diplomatic spats and has heightened fears of internal strife.
nytimes.com/2026/03/24/world…
Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon have killed more than 1,000 people — at least 118 of them children. Many were civilians going about their lives: excited for birthdays, tending their plants and dreaming big in small towns.
Here are three of their stories:
nytimes.com/2026/03/24/world…
Taline Shehab would have celebrated her 5th birthday last week.
She was killed by an Israeli strike along with her father, a well-known drone cameraman who worked in Lebanese television. Her mother, Natalie, remains in a coma, unaware her husband and only child are gone.
“She was our little princess,” said her uncle, Ali.
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The pain that people in Lebanon are carrying is unbearable... especially children and the elderly...
In the Israeli war of 2024, we met Mustapha Ramadan, who remained in his home in Haret Hreik throughout the fighting. Two years later, the second round of Israeli aggression forced him to leave, and he is now sheltering in an open area in Beirut.
Link to the first interview, “Mustafa, who never left Haret Hreik:”
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