The United States will have to do "something very tough" if a deal is not reached with Iran, President Donald Trump told Israel's Channel 12 in an interview published online on...
BEIRUT — In an unusual move with suspicious timing, the Israeli army kidnapped Atweh Atweh, an al-Jamaa al-Islamiya official, from his home in Hebbarieh (Hasbaya district) on Sunday night, less...
BEIRUT — The commander-in-chief of the Lebanese Army, General Rodolph Haykal, visited Saudi Arabia on Feb. 8 and 9, two days after his official trip to the United States, the army said Tuesday....
Applauded in the South and criticized in the North, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam found himself under renewed pressure last weekend. As he was on a tour in south Lebanon, the deadly collapse of a...
Omar Shakir, the longtime Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), announced on Feb. 3 that he was leaving the organization he had joined more than a decade earlier. His...
BEIRUT — The U.S. Treasury sanctioned on Tuesday an alleged Hezbollah-linked gold exchange and international shipping network, accusing the group of raising funds through Lebanon’s cash economy and...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said Tuesday that "no one can prevent the resistance in Lebanon because it is guaranteed by the Constitution" and that "if the...
President Donald Trump opposes West Bank annexation and wants stability, a U.S. official said, after Israel moved to tighten its grip over the occupied Palestinian territory. The United States,...
BEIRUT — For World Cancer Day, the Health Ministry held a conference on Tuesday with the primary goal of evaluating the results of the 2023-2028 national plan to fight cancer, as well as launching...
BEIRUT — The National Litani Water Authority announced Tuesday that it filed a complaint against Concord Household Appliances for “serious environmental violations and encroachments on the Ghozayel...
Saudi Arabia's $925 billion Public Investment Fund (PIF) plans to announce a new five-year strategy this week, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, in the biggest reset yet of...
BEIRUT — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday issued a presidential decree ordering the publication of the first draft of a provisional constitution for the State of Palestine,...
BEIRUT — Shin Bet (Israel's Security Agency) "foiled the activity of a terrorist cell operating in the Samaria area," in the West Bank, "which was mobilized by operatives in...
The new Israeli measures for the West Bank, announced this weekend and condemned internationally, risk accelerating the annexation of the occupied territory, facilitating land purchases by...
BEIRUT — Submission of candidacies for the May 2026 parliamentary elections began Tuesday, as the administrative and logistical preparations required for this phase are being finalized, according...
The Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and Syria was closed to Lebanese truck traffic overnight from Monday to Tuesday and again on Tuesday, after Syrian customs authorities banned non-Syrian...
Finance Minister Yassine Jaber on Tuesday issued a new decision, dated Feb. 6, implementing the tax relief measures granted by Law No. 22 of July 11, 2025 for victims of Israeli strikes during the...
The Cannabis Regulatory Authority was formally established in the summer of 2025, five years after the law creating it was passed.The authority is busy preparing to launch an industry touted as...
The delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by mission chief for Lebanon Ernesto Ramirez Rigo and including the organization’s resident representative in Lebanon, Frederico Lima,...
Lebanon is often described as a country in financial ruin, a collapsed economy with few remaining resources and no credible path to recovery. Yet Lebanon still holds one of the world’s most...
During her husband's first presidential term, Melania Trump distanced herself from the role of First Lady, spending much of her time in her apartment at Trump Tower in New York. She claimed she...
BEIRUT — Télé Liban ’s chairwoman and CEO, Elissar Naddaf, announced on Tuesday the launch of a donation drive to support residents of Tripoli affected by the collapse of several residential...
Fifteen years ago, a wave of revolutionary upheaval shocked the Arab world, propelling to the forefront a generation of young people demanding greater social justice and political freedom. But in a...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun issued the 2026 state budget law, approved by Parliament and assigned Law No. 40 dated Feb. 10, 2026, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Tuesday. At...
“Everyone loved him,” said Fadi Abu Saleh, brandishing a placard bearing a photo of his brother Ali. “He never caused problems. He was about to get married.”On Aug. 27, 2023, Ali, a Palestinian...
As an interior architect and set designer, including work on theater stages and television sets, Joseph Aphram may seem solely concerned with the obvious: ontological reductionism and surface-level...
NORTH LEBANON — Received by President Joseph Aoun, a delegation from Tripoli (Northern Lebanon) launched “an appeal for help” following the collapse of a residential building on Sunday in the Bab...
BEIRUT — The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) plans to withdraw most of its troops by mid 2027, its spokesperson told AFP on Tuesday, after the peacekeepers' mandate expires...
BEIRUT — The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) has welcomed the discovery and dismantling by the Lebanese Army of a Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon, in accordance with the cease-fire agreement...
Journalist Dany Haddad has served as editor-in-chief of MTV’s (Murr Television) online site for 11 years.Since the beginning, his commitment to media has gone far beyond this role. The journalist,...
From the moment he entered the Knesset in 2009, Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin pledged to overturn the judicial system initiated by Israeli jurist who served as president of the Supreme...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the top priority in his talks with U.S. President Donald Trump would be the ongoing negotiations with Iran, as he presses for a...
Since January, Finance Minister Yassin Jaber has been promoting the idea of boosting state revenues by allowing wealthy foreigners or expatriates to obtain Lebanese residency and benefit from a...
Chaos erupted on Monday evening in the heart of Australia's largest city as police tried to prevent a rally from taking place in protest against a visit by Israel's President Isaac Herzog....
BEIRUT — Several relatives of Islamist detainees held in Lebanese prisons blocked the North Lebanon highway at Beddawi on Tuesday morning, demanding a general amnesty for these prisoners, our...
The secretary of Iran's top security body arrived in Oman on Tuesday, days after a new round of nuclear talks was held in Muscat between officials from Washington and Tehran. Ali Larijani, who...
21:27 Beirut Time Netanyahu signs first deportation orders under new law Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he had signed deportation orders for two...
She draws you quietly into her world. Between urban architectures and animal figures, a sensitive universe where clay, shaped by bare hands and transformed into small sculptural pieces, expresses...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today: 10 a.m. Meeting of unions...
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
