Foreign interventions & programmes
53 events
- 1 January 1976Bashir Gemayel begins secret visits to IsraelDuring 1976 Bachir Gemayel began a series of secret visits to Israel in which he met Peres and the army commanders to…
- March 1976First Kataeb contact with Israel: Abu Khalil's trip
- 15 July 1976Israel's "Good Fence" policy opens the border to southern villagersIn mid-July 1976 Israel launched the "Good Fence" policy by opening crossings at Rmeish and Kfar Kila and then the…
- 1 January 1982Ghazi Kanaan heads Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon from AnjarIn 1982, after the Israeli invasion, Brigadier Ghazi Kanaan was appointed head of Syrian security and reconnaissance in…
- 23 August 1982Election of Bachir GemayelThe election of Bachir Gemayel as president under Israeli pressure, with Israeli tanks outside the parliament…
- 17 May 1983The 17 May AgreementOn 17 May 1983 Lebanon and Israel signed, under American sponsorship, an agreement ending the state of war and tying…
- 5 March 1984Lebanon abrogates the May 17 AgreementOn 5 March 1984 the Lebanese government formally annulled the 17 May Agreement after the 6 February uprising and the…
- 8 March 1985Bir al-Abed bombingOn 8 March 1985 a car bomb exploded near the house of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah in Bir al-Abed, killing more…
- 18 September 1988Richard Murphy: "Mikhael Daher or chaos"As Amine Gemayel's term ended, the American envoy Richard Murphy agreed with Hafez al-Assad in Damascus on naming the…
- 22 October 1989The Taif AgreementThe signing of the Taif Agreement to end the civil war and strip the presidency of its powers.
Note: Taif ended the…
- 19 October 1995Elias Hrawi's term extendedOn 19 October 1995 parliament amended the constitution to extend Elias Hrawi's term by three years, by Syrian decision,…
- 7 August 2001The 7 August 2001 crackdown on Free Patriotic Movement and Lebanese Forces activistsBetween 5 and 8 August 2001 Lebanese army intelligence carried out a wave of arrests of between 150 and 250 activists…
- 1 October 2002Rustom Ghazaleh succeeds Ghazi Kanaan at AnjarIn October 2002 Ghazi Kanaan took his leave of Rafik Hariri, and Brigadier Rustom Ghazaleh succeeded him as head of…
- 1 September 2003The Kennedy-Lugar YES exchange programme for school students
- 12 December 2003The Syria Accountability ActThe Congressional "Syria Accountability Act", for Syria's failure to take part in the war on terror.
- 2 September 2004Resolution 1559The Security Council adopted Resolution 1559, calling for the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon and the…
- 3 September 2004Emile Lahoud's term extendedOn 3 September 2004, the day after Resolution 1559, parliament amended the constitution to extend Emile Lahoud's term…
- 13 July 2006Saudi statement: "uncalculated adventures", full responsibility on the resistanceOn 13 July 2006 Saudi Arabia laid "full responsibility" on the resistance for its "irresponsible actions" and called on…
- 21 July 2006Rice: "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"On 21 July 2006, at a press conference in Washington before leaving for the region, Condoleezza Rice rejected the calls…
- 1 October 2006US security assistance to the army and ISF: over $2.5 billion since 2006After the July 2006 war Washington launched an arming and training programme for the Lebanese army and the Internal…
- 7 December 2006Nasrallah: "the Feltman government"On 7 December 2006, the seventh day of the central Beirut sit-in, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Siniora's government…
- 15 May 2008WikiLeaks cable: Saudi Arabia proposes an Arab force with US and NATO cover to crush HezbollahIn a cable from the American embassy in Riyadh published by WikiLeaks in December 2010, the Saudi foreign minister Saud…
- September 2008MEPI "Tomorrow's Leaders" scholarships
- 8 June 2010Feltman testimony: "more than $500 million" since 2006 to reduce Hezbollah's appeal to youthOn 8 June 2010, before the Near East subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a hearing titled…
- 1 September 2010USAID University Scholarship Program for public-school students
- 13 October 2010Ahmadinejad's visit to Beirut and Bint Jbeil
- 2 December 2010WikiLeaks cables: Elias Murr advises Israel via the US ambassadorAt the start of December 2010 "al-Akhbar" published cables of the American embassy in Beirut obtained from WikiLeaks,…
- 10 February 2011Washington designates the Lebanese Canadian Bank a "primary money laundering concern"On 10 February 2011 the US Treasury designated the Lebanese Canadian Bank under Section 311 of the Patriot Act on the…
- 1 September 2011USAID programmes in public schools: D-RASATI, then QITABI
- 12 February 2012Jake Sullivan to Clinton: "AQ is on our side in Syria"
- 29 December 2013The Saudi $3bn grant to the army via France
- 17 August 2014Clinton email to Podesta: Qatar and Saudi give ISIL "clandestine financial and logistic support"
- 14 July 2015The nuclear dealOn 14 July 2015 Iran and the P5+1 signed the nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) in Vienna in…
- 18 December 2015Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act signedOn 18 December 2015 President Obama signed the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act, which punishes foreign…
- 19 February 2016Saudi Arabia halts the $3 billion grant to the armyOn 19 February 2016 Saudi Arabia halted the three-billion-dollar grant to arm the Lebanese army with French weapons and…
- 3 May 2016BDL circular 137 implementing the US lawOn 3 May 2016 the Banque du Liban issued intermediate circular 137 obliging the banks to apply the American law, and…
- 20 April 2017Groundbreaking for the new US embassy compound in Awkar: $1 billion on 43 acres
- 25 October 2017Hamad bin Jassim: Syria was "prey we fought over, and it got away"In an interview with Qatari television in October 2017, the former Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Hamad bin…
- 5 November 2017Nasrallah: Hariri's resignation is a Saudi decision and he is being heldOn 5 November 2017, the day after Hariri announced his resignation from Riyadh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the…
- 8 May 2018The US leaves the nuclear dealOn 8 May 2018 Trump announced the United States' withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran and the reimposition of…
- 17 March 2019Battle over BdL vice-governors: Washington backs keeping Baasiri
- 29 August 2019Sanctions on Jammal Trust Bank
- 19 March 2020Collaborator Amer Fakhoury freed and flown out by US helicopter
- 17 June 2020The Caesar Act comes into force
- 27 June 2020Judge Mohammad Mazeh bans interviews with Ambassador Shea, is referred to inspection, resigns
- 6 August 2020Macron's post-explosion visit and the French initiativeOn 6 August 2020, two days after the port explosion, Emmanuel Macron visited Beirut and walked through Gemmayzeh amid…
- 3 September 2020Schenker in Beirut meets protest activists and skips officialsOn 3 and 4 September 2020, a month after the port explosion, the US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern…
- 8 September 2020Sanctions on Ali Hassan Khalil and Youssef FenianosOn 8 September 2020 Washington sanctioned the former ministers Ali Hassan Khalil (Amal) and Youssef Fenianos (Marada)…
- 6 November 2020Sanctions on Gebran BassilOn 6 November 2020 the US Treasury placed the head of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil on the sanctions list…
- 16 September 2021The Iranian fuel shipsHezbollah's bringing in of the Iranian ships (diesel) in defiance of the American embassy and Israel. On 13 September…
- 29 October 2021The Kordahi affair: Saudi Arabia expels Lebanon's ambassador and halts importsOn 29 October 2021, after the broadcast of an interview recorded before his appointment in which the information…
- 12 May 2022Schenker at the Washington Institute: Jammal Trust sanctions timed after Moody's, and using the October 17 movement against HezbollahAt a virtual Washington Institute panel on 12 May 2022 titled "Hezbollah, Shia Dynamics and Lebanon's Elections", on…
- 27 October 2022The maritime border agreementOn 27 October 2022 Lebanon and Israel signed the maritime border demarcation agreement through American mediation (Amos…