Lina Tabbal, a Franco-Lebanese woman who was arrested Oct. 2 by the Israeli army while traveling as a passenger on the Freedom Flotilla attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza...
An AFP photographer was injured in an attack by Israeli settlers on Friday while covering the olive harvest in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. "In my 30-year career, this is...
Left-wing Israeli magazine +972 published the findings of a months-long investigation into the animated videos released by the Israeli army during its wars on Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. The army used...
LONDON — The price of U.S. crude oil to its lowest level in six months following the implementation of the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on Friday. The price per barrel dropped below...
BEIRUT — MP Adib Abdel-Massih said on Thursday that he will formally propose to the Lebanese Army and government not to destroy or demolish the discovered tunnels in the South, as they could be...
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai and Iran's ambassador Mojtaba Amani emphasized the need for Lebanon to "remain a neutral, beautiful and diverse country, like a garden of flowers enriched...
BEIRUT — Public hospitals in northern Lebanon expressed deep concern on Friday over the decision by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to halt health coverage for Syrian...
A United Nations rapporteur on Friday said an Israeli attack on south Lebanon on Oct. 13, 2023, that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded others, including two from AFP, was a war crime. Morris...
The Marjayoun forestry office (southern Lebanon), under the Agriculture Ministry, halted a large illegal tree-cutting operation in a local forest. The office detected this illegal activity during...
About 20 associations of Lebanese emigrants published an open letter on Friday addressed to the government of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, urging it to launch an initiative in favor of the vote of...
The Lebanese Forces (LF) responded on Friday to the accusations made the day before by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri against the government, whom he accused of not paying enough attention to...
BEIRUT — Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed on Friday launched her ministry’s new strategy along with an executive plan at the Grand Serail. The launch ceremony was attended by Prime Minister...
The appointment on Wednesday by Justice Minister Adel Nassar of 11 new investigative judges to look into an equal number of political assassinations and assassination attempts dating back to 1978 —...
“Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women... We will wipe them out.” The tone was that of someone who has nothing to fear and believes he can do anything he...
The White House on Friday criticised the Nobel Prize committee's decision to award the peace prize to a Venezuelan opposition leader instead of U.S. President Donald Trump. "President...
The electoral machine is officially in motion. Despite uncertainty over how Lebanese expatriates will vote, political parties are already mapping out their alliances ahead of the legislative...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing her diaries with L'Orient Today as...
Israel's Defense Forces have completed the first phase of their withdrawal from Gaza, commencing the 72-hour period for the hostages' release, a top White House envoy said Friday, citing...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s General Security (GS) said on Friday it had dismantled a network “operating on behalf of Israel and preparing terrorist acts on Lebanese soil, including targeted attacks and...
Thousands of Palestinians began flocking towards north Gaza after a U.S.-brokered cease-fire took effect on Friday, anxious to see what remained of their shattered homes and wary of further...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun and First Lady Neemat Aoun visited, on Friday, Amani Bazzi Sharara, a survivor of an Israeli drone attack on her car that killed her husband and three of their four...
Praised around the world, the Gaza cease-fire agreement reached overnight Wednesday to Thursday between Israel and Hamas, under the auspices of U.S. President Donald Trump, marks an exceptional...
“I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.Since then, each side has been...
BEIRUT — A complaint filed by three activist lawyers against former State Security chief, retired General Tony Saliba, for "misuse of public funds, illicit enrichment and influence...
BEIRUT — The environmental group Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa, based in Beirut, sharply criticized on Friday the government’s decision to expand the Jdeideh landfill in North Metn....
Israeli army radio said on Friday that 11 prisoners from Hamas will be released instead of 11 prisoners affiliated with Fatah as part of the Gaza agreement, saying there had been a "last...
The Israeli military said a cease-fire in Gaza took effect at 0900 GMT on Friday, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a truce and hostage-release deal proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump....
The U.S. Treasury on Thursday ramped up its Iran-related sanctions, targeting a firm with ties to Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq, and the president of the Iraq's Olympic Committee. In a...
The International Committee of the Red Cross Friday said all releases of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners called for in the Gaza ceasefire agreement should be carried out "safely and...
Today, we are not celebrating the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We may not even be celebrating the end of the Gaza war — the longest and deadliest in the history of this conflict. But...
The film coproduction agreement between the government of the French-speaking Community of Belgium and Lebanon was announced at the residence of Belgian Ambassador Arnout Pauwels, in the presence...
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, known as “the liberator,” who is now forced to live in hiding in her country, which she calls a...
Postponed several times and surrounded by many questions, the first visit of Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani to Beirut will finally take place on Friday. This trip was preceded by visits...
Syrian Foreign Minister Assaad al‑Shaibani, who arrived in Beirut on Friday just before 11 a.m., stated that Syria wants to “overcome the obstacles of the past” in its relations with Lebanon — a...
The winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, in a year overshadowed by a months-long campaign by U.S. President Donald Trump to win what is arguably the world's most...
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded on Thursday to László Krasznahorkai, considered by many as Hungary's most important living author, whose works explore themes of postmodern dystopia...
Israel's government ratified a cease-fire with the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Friday, clearing the way to suspend hostilities in Gaza within 24 hours and free Israeli hostages held...
In the dim alleys of Burj al-Barajneh camp, life goes on as if nothing has happened. Even in other Palestinian refugee camps of Beirut, there is little reason to celebrate, despite the cease-fire...
BEIRUT — The Palestinian Fatah movement in Lebanon “welcomed the cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, the withdrawal of (Israeli, editor’s note) occupation forces from the territory, the entry...
BEIRUT — Gasoline and diesel prices in Lebanon continued to decline on Friday, according to the latest price list published by the Ministry of Energy and Water, a trend that has lasted for a week....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday that the government had "approved the framework" of a hostage release deal with Hamas, as both sides edged closer to...
22:16 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 22:15 Beirut Time...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Oct. 10, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:Updates on Israeli withdrawal in GazaUpdates on 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
