BEIRUT — The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors in Washington held their first phone conversation on Friday, marking the first official contact between the two countries since 1983. The Lebanese...
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Friday that leaders of both Iran and the United States would attend ceasefire talks in his country — and warned that progress would be hard work....
A rare and intense Israeli strike targeted the Nabatieh serail on Friday, killing 19 people, including 13 members of State Security. Meanwhile, bombardments continued across all of south Lebanon...
BEIRUT — The simultaneous Israeli strikes carried out within ten minutes on this "Black Wednesday" across Lebanon killed 357 people, the Health Ministry said Friday, bringing the death...
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said late on Friday that the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad slated to begin on Saturday were a make or break to achieve a permanent cease-fire in the...
The Israeli military said Friday that airstrikes it carried out in Lebanon two days earlier killed more than 180 Hezbollah militants. "Following an initial intelligence assessment ... it can...
BEIRUT — Hundreds of supporters of Hezbollah, the Amal movement, and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP, close to the former Bashar al-Assad regime), many of them young people, gathered this...
President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran has "no cards" in upcoming talks with the United States — apart from Tehran's effective stranglehold on the crucial Strait of Hormuz...
President Donald Trump said Friday that U.S. warships are being reloaded with weaponry to strike Iran if talks in Pakistan fail to produce a deal, in an interview with the New York Post ....
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar visited on Friday the sites of deadly Israeli strikes that took place Wednesday in Beirut, where he called for “supporting the state” and expressed hope that...
Iran-backed Hezbollah fired around 30 projectiles from Lebanon into Israel on Friday, the Israeli military said, reporting that some strikes caused damage. Air‑raid sirens were activated across...
Iran said on Friday that blocked Iranian assets must be released and that a ceasefire must take hold in Lebanon before peace talks can proceed, throwing last-minute doubt over negotiations...
Pope Leo XIV and French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the need for dialogue in the Middle East in their first meeting Friday at the Vatican, while also finding time to chat about basketball....
Europe's airport industry group has warned that the continent could face a systemic jet fuel shortage in three weeks unless the Strait of Hormuz opens up, calling for urgent EU-wide action to...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday accused Spain of waging a diplomatic campaign against Israel after he barred Madrid from taking part in the work of a U.S.‑led centre created to help...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned Iran Friday not to "play" Washington but said he hoped peace talks set to start in Pakistan would have a "positive" outcome. "We're...
The Israeli military said Friday that it had "dismantled" more than 4,300 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon since fighting with the militant group began last month. "More than 1,400...
The head of Hezbollah on Friday called on Lebanese authorities to "stop making free concessions," amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Shiite party that has drawn the entire...
The United Nations warned Friday of the rapid increase in food insecurity in Lebanon due to the war and the impact of the regional war, although unions representing food importers and supermarket...
UNICEF condemned, in a report released Thursday, that Israeli strikes on Beirut and many other regions on Wednesday “killed 33 children and injured 153 others” within minutes, according to...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah claimed an attack on Ashdod, coastal Israel, located 150 kilometers from Lebanon's southern border. Warning sirens sounded at dawn there, according to local media, which...
He embroiders as one dresses a wound, slowly, stubbornly, never quite closing it. Lebanese artist Nasri Sayegh, born in 1978, first trained in film and image before returning years later to...
BEIRUT — The battle for Bint Jbeil has begun, with fierce fighting between invading Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters. On Thursday afternoon, Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir appeared in a...
For more than a month, Lebanon has been grappling with the effects of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, with more than one million people forced by Israeli attacks and threats to flee their...
With courts in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa rendered inaccessible by the Israel-Hezbollah war, Justice Minister Adel Nassar and the Higher Judicial Council introduced exceptional measures to keep...
Talks in Pakistan: uncertainty over Iranian attendance due to strikes in Lebanon Pakistan is preparing Friday to host Iranian and American delegations for talks, even though the participation of...
In the wake of Wednesday’s Israeli massacre in the heart of Beirut, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government decided the next day to “extend state control” across the capital and “ensure a monopoly...
The United States and Iran are holding their highest-level talks in years in Islamabad in a Pakistan-brokered bid to turn a fragile two-week cease-fire into a lasting end to a war that has roiled...
Since the moment a last-minute cease-fire with Iran was concluded, a rift between Israel and the U.S. came to the forefront.Israel “was not even consulted when decisions about the heart of our...
23:32 Beirut Time Hezbollah condemns Nabatieh strike and criticizes authorities Hezbollah condemned the Israeli strike on the government serail in Nabatieh, describing it as a “major...
Since the start of the latest war with Israel, Rabih’s home in Ibl al-Saqi (Marjayoun district) has had electricity around the clock, a sharp contrast to the four to six hours a day residents...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, April 10, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz Some key things to watch today:Updates on direct negotiations set for next week between...
A turnaround on the Lebanese scene came after a day marked by deadly Israeli strikes on Beirut and across the country, and statements from Tel Aviv and Washington indicating that Lebanon would not...
Everything is in ruins — buildings, bodies and spirits. Each time, we tell ourselves this will be the last straw, that it's one war too many, that this is the one from which the country will...
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
