ISF arrests suspect in attack on PSP MP Abu al-Hosn
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Thursday it arrested the man accused of attacking Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) MP Hadi Abu al-Hosn during a funeral in the Mount Lebanon...
Your search results: 32 articles
A sea view mauled by relentless strikes in Sour: What cease-fire?
The narrative of Lebanese resilience has been drilled into our heads since birth. I’ve heard it through successive presidents, political leaders, marketing teams behind the ads on the highway, and...
Melissa Manouchakian, 14 May 2026
Milton Hatoum: The Amazon, Lebanon, and the highest honor of Brazilian letters
Elected a few months earlier to chair No. 6, succeeding journalist Cícero Sandroni, Milton Hatoum is the first writer, columnist, translator and essayist from Amazonas to join, last April, the...
Nanette Ziadé-Ritter, 14 May 2026
At USEK, student engagement in service to the community
Entitled "And Still We Rise: Students in Service, Education in Action," the third edition of the GE Forum highlighted the volunteer activities of USEK students, carried out as part of the...
Chantal EDDÉ, 14 May 2026
‘We barely recovered from the last war’: Renewed fighting deals heavy blow to businesses in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Raed Tarabay has been in business for nearly 20 years. He runs Helena Touch, a family-owned beauty store, center, and salon in Jbeil, which today employs around 45 people. The business...
Stephanie Bechara, 14 May 2026
Nearly 2 million captagon pills seized in Bekaa
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Thursday they had carried out a major anti-narcotics operation that led, on April 24, to the seizure of nearly two million captagon pills from a...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 May 2026
What counts as loss? Grievability, martyrdom, and victimhood in Lebanon
Razan El Helou is a PhD researcher on peace education, storytelling, and politics.“... there are ‘lives’ that are not quite — or, indeed, are never — recognized as lives...”Judith Butler,...
Razan El Helou, 14 May 2026
Rajji insists Beirut ‘not speaking at this stage about a peace agreement’ with Israel
BEIRUT — Foreign Minister Joe Rajji said that in the negotiations with Israel whose first session begins today in Washington Beirut is « not speaking at this stage about a peace agreement. »...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 May 2026
Around 77,000 children in Lebanon are ‘experiencing heightened distress from repeated exposure to violence,’ UNICEF says
BEIRUT — An estimated 770,000 children are experiencing "heightened distress from repeated exposure to violence, loss and displacement,” UNICEF said in a statement Thursday. “Children and...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 May 2026
India says attack that sank Indian-flagged ship off Oman's coast 'unacceptable'
India condemned an attack that sank an Indian-flagged vessel transiting through Omani waters as "unacceptable" on Thursday and said targeting of commercial ships should be avoided amid...
14 May 2026
Ahmad Rami al-Hajj sworn in before President Aoun
BEIRUT — Ahmad Rami al-Hajj, the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, was sworn in on Thursday before the head of state, Joseph Aoun, in the presence of Justice Minister Adel Nassar and the...
14 May 2026
Fatah party to elect leaders for first time in decade
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement is due on Thursday to elect a new central committee for the first time in 10 years, as it faces existential challenges in the wake of the...
AFP, 14 May 2026
'Promised to us': The Israelis dreaming of settling south Lebanon
From her home in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Anna Sloutskin yearns to expand her country's borders and one day move to southern Lebanon. And she is not alone. With...
14 May 2026
Hacking Lebanese Politics #35: General Amnesty bill explained
For weeks now, a draft General Amnesty law has been fueling controversy inside Parliament and beyond.What should ostensibly be a strictly legal debate quickly turned sectarian.During parliamentary...
Sahar Ghoussoub, 14 May 2026
Iran and UAE clash at the BRICS foreign ministers meeting
Iran's foreign minister accused the United Arab Emirates of direct involvement in military operations against his country during a BRICS meeting in New Delhi on Thursday, the Iranian...
Reuters, 14 May 2026
Vatican promises Rajji to urge Washington to pursue a 'durable solution' in Lebanon
The Vatican no longer seems willing to limit itself to the provision of humanitarian aid to Lebanon. It may well step up its efforts with the United States to press for a halt to Israel’s war and...
Yara ABI AKL, 14 May 2026
'In Houmous we trust': In Marseille, chickpeas, Lebanon, peace and the dining table take center stage
At first, the organizers had planned to stage a world hummus championship. But faced with the relentless violence in southern Lebanon, they changed course.As the destruction of entire villages...
Emmanuel KHOURY, 14 May 2026
Rasamny receives Qatari donation: 'Beirut airport will continue operating under any circumstances'
BEIRUT — Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny said Thursday that “Beirut airport will not stop operating, regardless of the circumstances,” adding that “coordination is ongoing with...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 May 2026
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
The gap remains wide in the U.S.-Iran negotiations. It is just as wide between Israeli demands and Lebanese conditions.In both cases, Israel is trying to convince Washington to resume the war...
Mounir RABIH, 14 May 2026
Israeli media: Hezbollah allegedly developed a plan to occupy Beirut
BEIRUT — Israeli news agency Wallah alleges that Hezbollah “has developed an action plan to occupy Beirut in order to push back pragmatic forces seeking rapprochement with Israel,” in a dispatch...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 May 2026
Ode to forgetting: Where to be this weekend in Lebanon
Sometimes, our memories are too much to carry. We hide them in the hunch of our backs and the clench in our jaws because we can't figure out how to let them pass through. But how else can we...
Marguerita Sejaan, 14 May 2026
Civilians injured after Hezbollah drone falls near Israel-Lebanon border, military says
Several Israeli civilians were injured and evacuated to hospital for treatment after an explosive drone launched by Hezbollah fell within Israeli territory near the Israel-Lebanon border, the...
Reuters, 14 May 2026
Lebanon-Syria: Toward ‘coordination’ in negotiations with Israel?
Caution still governs relations between Lebanon and Syria, sixteen months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Yet the regional war has made rapprochement between these neighboring countries with a...
Salah HIJAZI, 14 May 2026
'They took all our memories. They erased our past': The Palestinians forced by Israel to destroy their own homes
He welcomes us into his cozy living room where two cats roam lazily around, royally ignoring the latest Al Jazeera alerts. This resident of the Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem,...
Amira SOUILEM, 14 May 2026
Russia unleashes heaviest wartime drone assault on Ukraine, hits Kyiv
Russia unleashed the largest aerial attack on Ukraine over a two-day period since the war began, pounding the capital Kyiv and other cities across the country with hundreds of drones, Ukrainian...
14 May 2026
Vessel off UAE coast 'taken', now bound for Iran waters: UK maritime agency
A ship off the UAE coast near the Strait of Hormuz has been taken by unknown people and is now headed towards Iranian waters, a UK maritime agency said on Thursday. The vessel was "taken by...
14 May 2026
'If there is no real cease-fire, everything will collapse,' Berri says
BEIRUT — Just hours before the start of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Thursday that if the talks do not produce in a "real cease-fire,...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 May 2026
First round of direct negotiations between Beirut, Israel began in Washington | LIVE
17:39 Beirut Time CENTCOM asserts Iran's arms supply, support to Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah cut off The head of U.S. Central Command, Bradley Cooper, told the Senate Armed Services...
Renee Robledo-Davis, Ghadir Hamadi, Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah ABDALLAH, 14 May 2026
After months of blackout, Iran gives internet to select few
After months under a near-total internet blackout during the Middle East war, Iranian tech worker Amir-Hassan was finally able to get back online, but only through a privileged service that has...
14 May 2026
Trump, Xi agreed Strait of Hormuz 'must remain open': White House
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a "good" meeting on Thursday in which they agreed that the Strait of Hormuz "must remain open," the White...
14 May 2026
Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, May 14 2026 Some key things to watch today:Lebanese and Israeli delegations to hold first meeting today in WashingtonTrump...
Abbas Mahfouz, 14 May 2026
Sharaa's balancing act amid regional pressures
Shortly before the outbreak of war between the United States and Iran in late February, a Qatari private jet landed in Damascus with a clear message from the Gulf monarchies to Syrian President...
