2019 · Lebanon History
- 31 January 2019Hariri's third cabinet formed after nine months
- 17 March 2019Battle over BdL vice-governors: Washington backs keeping Baasiri
- 30 June 2019The Qabrshmoun incident
- 9 July 2019Sanctions on MPs Raad and Sherri and on Wafiq SafaOn 9 July 2019 the US Treasury imposed sanctions on the head of Hezbollah's bloc Mohammad Raad, the deputy Amin Sherri…
- 24 August 2019Strike near Damascus kills two Hezbollah members
- 25 August 2019Israeli drones crash in Moawad; Nasrallah speechAt dawn on 25 August 2019 an Israeli drone fell in the Moawad district of the southern suburbs and another exploded…
- 29 August 2019Sanctions on Jammal Trust Bank
- 1 September 2019The Avivim reply: guided missiles on an Israeli vehicleOn 1 September 2019 the "group of the two martyrs Hassan Zbeeb and Yasser Daher" hit an Israeli military vehicle with…
- 12 September 2019Arrest of Amer Fakhoury, former Khiam prison warden, after his return to LebanonIn September 2019 Amer Fakhoury, the former official at Lahd's army's Khiam prison and a holder of American…
- October 2019General Security arrests Lebanese-Canadian Tabet Tabet at the airport on Mossad spying charges
- 17 October 2019The October protestsOn 17 October 2019 demonstrations broke out in every region after a proposed tax on WhatsApp calls, and turned into an…
- 18 October 2019Hariri's 72-hour speechOn 18 October 2019, the second day of the uprising, Saad Hariri gave his partners in the government 72 hours to accept…
- 25 October 2019Nasrallah: we will not allow the presidency to fallOn 25 October 2019, in his second speech during the uprising, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declared that Hezbollah would not…
- 29 October 2019Resignation of Saad Hariri's governmentOn 29 October 2019 Saad Hariri announced his government's resignation under pressure from the street after 13 days of…
- 29 October 2019Attack on the protesters' tents in central BeirutAt noon on 29 October 2019 supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement attacked the sit-in in Martyrs' Square and…
- 1 November 2019Banks close and informal capital controls beginIn November 2019, after a two-week closure since 17 October, the banks reopened with unlawful restrictions on…
- 27 December 2019Rocket attack on K-1 base kills a US contractorOn 27 December 2019 rockets fell on the K-1 base in Kirkuk, killing an American contractor; Washington accused the…
- 29 December 2019US strikes on Kata'ib HezbollahOn 29 December 2019 the United States bombed five Kata'ib Hezbollah positions in al-Qaim and al-Bukamal (25 dead) in…
- 31 December 2019Storming of the US embassy in BaghdadOn 31 December 2019 supporters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces stormed the surroundings of the American embassy in…