BEIRUT — A rare outbreak of cholera in Lebanon this past week and an ongoing, much larger outbreak in neighboring Syria have raised fears that the illness could further spread as the country’s...
BEIRUT and DUBAI — Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country's...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Monday recorded four cholera cases in Arsal, a town in northeastern Lebanon, bringing the total to 18 cases, a Health Ministry spokesperson told L'Orient Today....
BEIRUT — Higher Judicial Council head Soheil Abboud on Monday announced he would not attend a council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, due to what he called "political interferences." The HJC is...
BEIRUT — American envoy Amos Hochstein, in charge of the indirect negotiations between Lebanon and Israel on the delineation of their maritime border, "is working to resolve the pending...
Qatar's tightly-controlled media on Monday stepped up an offensive against European criticism of the Gulf state's human rights record ahead of the World Cup, on which it has spent billions of...
Some 1,200 Iraqi families have been forced out of southern marshes and farmlands over the past six months, a local official told AFP, as drought ravages swathes of the country. The Mesopotamian...
Jerusalem church leaders on Monday expressed their “grave concern” about Britain potentially moving their embassy in Israel to the contested and sacred city. British Prime Minister Liz Truss last...
A drone strike in northern Syria killed a suspected member of the Islamic State group on Monday, a war monitor and an AFP correspondent said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Labor Ministry has launched an online platform for jobs open to Lebanese citizens in Qatar ahead of the World Cup finals in the Qatari capital Doha, Labor Minister Mostafa Bayram...
DUBAI — Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities on Monday, social media posts and videos showed, pressing efforts to quell unrest...
BEIRUT — The Association of Banks in Lebanon announced Monday that bank branches will remain closed in the coming days but will continue providing reduced services to their customers, after...
Wafa Mustafa, a Syrian activist who fled her homeland in 2013, is very well acquainted with the feeling of uncertainty if she would return home after a demonstration, be killed in the streets of...
LONDON — Britain said on Monday it had sanctioned senior Iranian security officials and its "so-called morality police," saying the force had used threats of detention and violence to...
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun is fighting a rearguard action today. A few weeks before the end of his six-year term, and days before a parliamentary meeting that could elect his successor, the...
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun said Monday that the "indirect negotiations" with Israel on the demarcation of the southern maritime border "have already gone a long way," a few days after Israel...
BEIRUT — The number of passengers at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport increased by 51.3 percent in the first nine months of 2022 compared to this time last year, with a total of 4.84...
STOCKHOLM — Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the 2022 Nobel Economics Prize "for research on banks and financial crises," the Royal Swedish...
BEIRUT — Private school teachers in Lebanon elected on Sunday a new president for their union. Nehme Mahfoud, who has already held this position for three terms, received more than 2,200 votes,...
DUBAI — Foreign visitors to Iran should respect the Islamic Republic's laws, its Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday amid continued protests over a woman's death in police custody that Tehran...
BEIRUT — A suspect was killed and more than ten others who are wanted for alleged drug trafficking and theft were arrested during a search by the Lebanese Army in Brital and Hor Taala, in the...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on Sunday that it remains a priority for Hezbollah to have a government formed before the presidential elections, “even if there are a...
SINGAPORE — Saudi Aramco has told at least seven customers in Asia they will receive full contract volumes of crude oil in November ahead of the peak winter season, several sources with knowledge...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
