Follow our live coverage here . When the Arab spring uprisings broke out in 2011 and the spark of revolution ignited Arab capitals, Syria was no exception. A few months after people took to the...
Several projectiles were launched today from Lebanon towards the Israeli village of Shtula, a security source told L'Orient Today' s correspondent in the south, Muntasser Abdallah. The outskirts...
“Make it clear there is no hope of returning”: This is the aim of the Israeli Intelligence Ministry’s proposed plan for the Gaza Strip. According to a document leaked on Saturday to the...
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), the global organization of the finance industry, has published a study measuring the economic impact of the Hamas-Israel war on the region, with a...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called on Wednesday for a five-day ceasefire in Gaza during a government meeting at the Grand Serail in Beirut. He stated that Lebanon opts...
DUBAI — The leader of Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas said on Wednesday that Israeli hostages held in the besieged Gaza Strip were subject to the same "death and destruction" that...
French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he "hates the debate" over the value of "Jewish lives" and "Palestinian lives" and called for "civilians in Gaza to be protected first." ...
A first group of foreigners and dual nationals fleeing war-torn Gaza arrived in Egypt on Wednesday, mostly women and children, an Egyptian official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity....
DUBAI — The only cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel, health officials said on Wednesday. The director of the...
Saudi Arabia is prepared to host the 2034 World Cup in summer or winter, its football chief told AFP, as the conservative oil giant was anointed the tournament's host just weeks after announcing a...
AMSTERDAM — The European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell on Wednesday said he was "appalled" by the high number of casualties from the bombing by Israel of a refugee camp in Gaza and called...
With Israel’s response in Gaza monopolizing media attention, in the West Bank, the Israeli cabinet, army and settlers are no longer hiding. Attacks over the past three weeks have threatened to set...
LONDON — The BBC will start an emergency radio service for the people of Gaza in response to the ongoing conflict in the region, the British broadcaster's World Service arm said on Wednesday....
BEIRUT — Lebanon has ordered a 30,000-ton wheat shipment which is expected to be delivered in two weeks, caretaker Economy Minister Amin Salam said on Wednesday. "We are in good...
"Victory is not easy, but it is certain," imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner and women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, said in a message smuggled out of her Tehran cell published late Tuesday....
Ambulances rushed wounded Palestinians out of Gaza for urgent medical care in Egypt Wednesday, with hundreds of desperate foreign passport holders also poised to flee the territory devastated by...
At least four Palestinians were killed during Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, as violence there continued in tandem with the Israel-Hamas war...
"A murder shared with many others, which is not only safe and permitted, but indeed recommended, is irresistible to the great majority of men." - Elias Canetti, Crowds and...
BAGHDAD — Two drones targeting U.S. base in Syria's al-Tanf region were thwarted by the base defence system, an Iraqi government source told Reuters on Wednesday. A group...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel's war in Gaza would be long but victorious, in a statement in which he also mourned mounting military losses....
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said it had deployed missile boats in the Red Sea on Wednesday as reinforcements, a day after the Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had launched missile and...
Scores of foreign passport holders trapped in Gaza started leaving the war-torn territory on Wednesday as the Rafah crossing to Egypt opened for the first time since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, AFP...
Hundreds of wounded Gaza residents and foreigners gathered at the Egypt border Wednesday, poised to flee the shattered territory that is still reeling from a deadly Israeli strike on a refugee...
BEIRUT — The US State Department called, in a statement issued Tuesday, on Lebanese MPs to elect a president, form a government free of corruption and implement the reforms needed to secure an IMF...
DOHA/DUBAI — Qatar has mediated an agreement between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, in coordination with the US, to allow for the movement of foreign passport holders and some critically injured...
JERUSALEM — Israel accused Bolivia on Wednesday of "capitulation to terrorism and to the ayatollah regime in Iran" after the South American nation cut ties in protest at civilian casualties from...
The Israeli army said on Wednesday that its forces had carried out attacks on more than 11,000 militant targets in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of its ongoing war with Hamas. ...
Internet and phone networks were down across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian telecommunications agency said, in the second such blackout in the besieged territory in less than a week....
21:27 Beirut Time Thanks for following L'Orient Today' s LIVE coverage of day 26 of the Israel-Hamas war. We will be back tomorrow. 21:27 Beirut Time There are...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on our LIVE coverage of Day 25 of the Israel-Hamas war here . Palestinian factions called for a “day of anger”...
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday roundly condemned a deadly Israeli bombing of Gaza's largest refugee camp that killed dozens of people — including, Israel says, a Hamas commander....
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that nine soldiers had died in Gaza fighting, without immediately providing details on where or when.
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
