BEIRUT — A number of prisoners staged a gruesome protest in a prison in Sour, South Lebanon, on Friday evening to protest conditions inside the facility. The prisoners cut themselves with sharp...
Iran's foreign minister on Friday rejected accusations from France over Tehran's interference in Lebanon, urging President Emmanuel Macron to focus instead on his own country. Macron had told a...
The Ministry of Finance announced in a Thursday statement that it has finalized the 2024 draft budget and forwarded it to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Among the numerous measures...
The United Nations Security Security Council voted Thursday to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for another year, until Aug. 31, 2024. Lebanon and...
BEIRUT—A tender to manage a greater Beirut public bus network was unsuccessfully concluded yesterday, as there was only one qualified bidder. The tender will likely be relaunched within the...
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi held a press conference on Friday to announce a call for tenders to entrust the management of mechanical vehicle inspection centers, the Lebanese...
BEIRUT —Marianne Hoayek, a former assistant to former Banque du Liban (BDL) governor Riad Salameh, filed a direct lawsuit against OTV television station after the station allegedly published an...
BEIRUT — Financial Prosecutor General Ali Ibrahim on Friday ordered the unsealing of KVA (Arabian Construction Company and Khatib & Alami), a service provider for state-owned Électricité du...
BEIRUT — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian insisted Friday that officials in Lebanon, which has been without a president for the past ten months, have the "necessary competence and...
BEIRUT — A man was killed and his brother was severely injured in a stabbing in Tariq al-Jadideh, Beirut, on Thursday night, a mukhtar (mayor) from the area confirmed to L'Orient Today ....
Over one hundred Lebanese judges decided on Friday to suspend their work sine die to protest their living and working conditions, several judges confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour on...
Your Excellency, The board of the Lebanese Business Leaders Association (RDCL) intends to welcome the wise decision you made after taking the helm of the Central Bank. This new decision, which...
The Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) opened an investigation Thursday evening after several protesters threw objects at the Azerbaijani embassy in Lebanon, a security source told...
BEIRUT — Hundreds gathered in southern Syria on Friday urging President Bashar al-Assad to step down, capping nearly two weeks of demonstrations that erupted over poor living conditions but have...
BEIRUT — The latest clash between officials over the fate of Electricite du Liban's (EDL) fuel delivery has come to an end. During a press conference in Beirut, caretaker Energy Minister...
On Thursday, the Beirut Indictment Chamber sent the Beirut Court of Appeals first Chief Judge Habib Rizkallah a request to recuse itself from the Riad Salameh case, following the action against the...
An Iraqi court on Thursday sentenced an Iranian and four Iraqis to life in prison for the murder of a US civilian, in a verdict welcomed by Washington. Stephen Troell, who...
The United States called Friday for an end to deadly fighting between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Arab armed groups in a region of eastern Syria largely outside government...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's Thursday call for dialogue and open electoral sessions to elect a new president garnered contrasting reactions from Lebanon's political class. In...
Armenia said that two of its servicemen were killed and one wounded on Friday after Azerbaijan fired at its positions near the town of Sotk, close to the border. Tensions...
BEIRUT — In a statement issued on Friday, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced the arrest of three members of an "international network" accused of swindling Lebanese expatriates into...
Israeli forces on Friday killed a Palestinian in the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, as a surge of deadly violence in the occupied territory shows no signs of abating....
For the first time since Sept. 29, 2022, when Lebanon began its presidential election process, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri proposed a compromise to his opponents. He would agree to hold open...
The veneer of an economic rebound, reinforced by overflowing restaurants and beaches this summer, has overshadowed the reality faced by the majority of Lebanese struggling to make ends meet....
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon increased slightly on Friday morning, according to the latest tariffs issued by the Energy Ministry. These are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane...
Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah in the first meeting among several expected as they discussed "the latest updates and political...
BEIRUT: The United Nations Security Security Council voted on Thursday to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for another year, until Aug. 31, 2024. Lebanon...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . A Mount Lebanon judge investigating the death of 6-year-old Lynn Taleb indicted the girl’s uncle for rape and intentional...
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
