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Jamie Prentis

Jamie Prentis

Lebanon correspondent
Beirut
Jamie is a British journalist and has been a correspondent at the Beirut bureau since March 2022, where he covers Lebanese affairs and the wider region. Before that he was a reporter at the London bureau for nearly four years. Before joining The National he worked for the Libya Herald and covered the country for outlets including The Times.
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Drone footage shows the extent of the damage to the silos in Beirut port following the blast on August 4, 2020. Reuters
Special reportFive years after the port blast, Beirut's wounds remain unhealed

Much of the physical damage has been repaired - but closure remains elusive for people frustrated by delays in the investigation and unresolved questions of accountability

MENAJuly 30, 2025
The burial service for Pvt Sean Rooney who was killed while serving with a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon in December 2022. PA
Lebanon sentences man to death for killing Irish peacekeeper

'Unsatisfactory' that killer Mohammad Ayyad still at large, Irish government says

MENAJuly 29, 2025
Ziad Rahbani's mother Fairuz was among the famous guests at the composer's funeral near Bikfaiya. AP
Lebanon ‘united in grief’ as mother Fairuz attends Ziad Rahbani’s funeral

Famous Lebanese composer laid to rest in hometown of Mhaydseh

MENAJuly 28, 2025
Georges Abdallah arrives at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport after being deported from France. AFP
Georges Abdallah arrives in Lebanon after four decades in French jail

Supporters welcome 74-year-old jailed over murder of two diplomats

MENAJuly 25, 2025
Georges Bouchikian denies allegations of corruption during his time as a Lebanese government minister. Photo: NNA
Lebanese parliament lifts immunity from MP accused of corruption

Former industry minister Georges Bouchikian faces corruption allegations

MENAJuly 23, 2025
The southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, laid to waste after Israeli troops’ withdrawal. EPA
Israel kidnaps two in southern Lebanon as US pushes Hezbollah disarmament plan

Tom Barrack presses Beirut on arms control amid mounting internal and external pressure

MENAJuly 23, 2025
Lebanon's Justice Minister Adel Nassar. Mohamad Zanaty for The National
InterviewLebanon cannot call itself a state without answers to Beirut blast

Adel Nassar says his role is to ensure investigative judge has means to continue his work without political interference

MENAJuly 20, 2025
Lebanon's Roumieh prison. Reuters
ExclusiveLebanon seeks deal to send overcrowded prison inmates to Syria

Justice Minister Adel Nassar tells The National proposal would cover most Syrians in jail

MENAJuly 18, 2025
Bomb removal experts work in an area in the south of Lebanon, under a joint army-NGO programme. Mohamad Zanaty / The National
Unexploded munitions a lingering deadly threat of Israel's war on Lebanon

Experts return to southern areas already cleared of bombs from previous conflicts

MENAJuly 17, 2025
US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack arrives to meet Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Beirut on July 7. Reuters
Lebanon receives US response on disarming Hezbollah

Lebanese parliament questions government over performance

MENAJuly 15, 2025
A captagon factory raid in Lebanon on July 13 2025. Photo: Lebanese Army
Lebanon dismantles 'major' Captagon factory

Military says drugs lab in Baalbek region is among largest discovered so far

MENAJuly 14, 2025
Hezbollah supporters take part in an Ashura ceremony in Beirut's southern suburbs on July 6, 2025. AFP
ExclusiveLebanon considers plan to disarm Hezbollah after Western guarantees

Assurance followed Lebanese response to US road map for disarming Hezbollah, sources say

MENAJuly 10, 2025
A building damaged by Israeli strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs in April. Reuters
Israel sends troops deeper into south Lebanon to destroy alleged Hezbollah sites

Israeli military continues to occupy five points inside Lebanese territory despite ceasefire

MENAJuly 09, 2025
Hezbollah supporters raise their hands and beat their chests as they march during Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration marking the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, July 6, 2025. (AP Photo / Hassan Ammar)
Lebanon's Shiites mark Ashura amid calls for Hezbollah to disarm

First commemoration since the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah

MENAJuly 06, 2025
US special envoy Tom Barrack, left, meets Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, right, at the presidential palace in Baabda, on June 19. AP
Lebanon drafts response to US demands for cabinet to approve Hezbollah disarmament

Beirut is under immense US pressure to bring all weapons under state control as soon as possible

MENAJuly 01, 2025
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