Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that providing more aid to Palestinians in Gaza requires a "decisive stance" from the international community to push for a ceasefire,...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that there will be consequences for continued attacks on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea by Yemen-based Houthis and that it had...
Jordanian King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi stressed at the end of an Arab summit in Aqaba that pressure should be increased to end Israel's "aggression" against Gaza and...
The World Health Organization (WHO) cancelled another planned medical aid mission to Gaza on Wednesday over security concerns, the sixth such cancellation in two weeks, and sounded a fresh alarm...
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a large-scale drone and missile attack in the Red Sea described as the biggest yet in the international shipping corridor....
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said an Israeli strike on an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed four medics and two other people inside the vehicle. The organization said...
Hezbollah has a complex identity that has evolved over the decades as the party expanded. Created by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the early 1980s, Hezbollah functions as a...
Hassan Nasrallah has set the tone. In his most recent speech on Friday, Hezbollah’s secretary general opened the door to a political settlement with Israel for long-term stability in southern...
Israel's military said on Wednesday one of their vehicles "unintentionally" ran over the body of a Palestinian militant during a gun battle in the occupied West Bank earlier this week....
BEIRUT — In front of a packed crowd at KED in Beirut, Lebanese comedian Nataly Aukar — who’s on a visit back home from New York — takes the stage. She’s bespectacled, with sneakers and a plain...
BEIRUT — The leader of the Kataeb, MP Samy Gemayel, warned on Wednesday against any compromise in southern Lebanon that would be "at the expense of Lebanon," at a time when Hezbollah and Israel...
BEIRUT — For more than three months, Hezbollah and Israel have been trading daily cross-border fire, with a brief exception for the week-long cease-fire at the end of November, following which, the...
US top diplomat Antony Blinken told Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday that Washington supports "tangible steps" towards the creation of a Palestinian state....
A total of 23,357 Palestinians have been killed and 59,410 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday....
While the assassination of Hamas Deputy Chief Saleh al-Arouri, a man long wanted by Israel, was not surprising, the means Israel employed to commit this “perfect crime” in an area highly secured by...
Iraq wants a quick and orderly negotiated exit of US-led military forces from its soil but has not set a deadline, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said, describing their presence as...
Michel Murr, CEO of the local TV channel MTV, intends to appeal against the Jan. 3 ruling by the Mount Lebanon Court of Trade in Jdeideh, declaring him ineligible to continue being a member of the...
Israel kept bombing Gaza on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken met the head of the Palestinian Authority, which Washington hopes could govern the coastal territory after the war...
BEIRUT — Lebanon filed a complaint to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, in response to Israel's accusations of Lebanon's non-compliance with Resolution 1701 voted in 2006. This is the third...
UK and US naval forces have "repelled the largest attack by the Iranian-backed Houthis in the Red Sea to date," British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said on Wednesday. A...
London-based media outlet The New Arab announced on Tuesday the release of one of its Palestinian journalists from Israeli custody, alleging he faced torture during more than a month in detention....
Israel's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by international media organizations to allow independent access for journalists to the war-torn Gaza Strip. Israel controls...
Jordan's King Abdullah II will host Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday for talks on "dangerous developments" in war-torn Gaza, the royal...
21:55 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage of day 96 of the Israel-Hamas war. We will be back tomorrow with more news updates. 21:42 Beirut Time...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 95 of the Israel-Hamas war here . Israeli strikes killed one person near the...
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
