Caretaker Lebanese Education Minister Abbas Halabi on Wednesday called on teachers to turn out "en masse" to correct official exams, after some of them announced their intention to boycott these...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday that his party will accept "what Hamas accepts" on a possible cease-fire in Gaza, assuring that the "support front" launched by his...
BEIRUT – The Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) was supposed to hold an “extraordinary” general assembly on Wednesday to discuss one main point on its agenda: the amendment of Article 13 of its...
BEIRUT — Speculations and rumors rose after a former guard of Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, Yasser Qarnabach,was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike in the Jdeidet Yabous region of...
During the early hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood launched on the morning of Oct. 7 by Hamas in Israel, fighters from the Palestinian movement attacked a vehicle in the Sderot region driven by an...
BEIRUT – The head of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, accused Hezbollah in a statement on Wednesday of denouncing their proposed "serious dialogue" that would pave the way to a new president...
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced on Wednesday the arrest, on July 1, of a 48-year-old man who confessed to having molested a 13-year-old minor in South Lebanon, a statement reported....
If, by some gust of the winds, you’ve found your way to Lebanon this summer… If your flight wasn’t canceled, if you managed to re-book at the last minute, if you tossed away all sense, if you felt...
Will Masoud Pezeshkian's accession to the presidency mark a change of direction in Iran’s nuclear policy? The reformist, who will be sworn in before the Iranian Parliament in early August, led an...
Forty-three Emiratis have received life sentences for "terrorism"-related offenses in the United Arab Emirates, state media said on Wednesday, after a mass trial heavily criticized by U.N....
Over 1,058 plant species have been recorded in this reserve, created in 1992. They account for nearly 40 percent of the plant species in Lebanon, despite being less than 0.1 percent of the total...
Several big festivals in Lebanon announced earlier that they would not be planning any programming for the summer of 2024, in solidarity with Gaza and southern Lebanon, which have been under...
Anjar is the only site from the Umayyad Islamic dynasty in Lebanon. It was founded in the early 8th century by Caliph Walid I but was damaged and subsequently abandoned within the century. It...
Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday that 60 percent of Hamas fighters had been "eliminated or wounded" in the Gaza war since the militant group's Oct. 7 attacks....
Since the start of the week, the acting governor of Banque du Liban (BDL), Wassim Mansouri, has been holding meetings in Washington with officials from the U.S. Treasury and State Department, in...
The leader of Israel's Union Party, Benny Gantz, stated on Wednesday that "it is time to demand a price for military targets and infrastructure of the Lebanese state, including Hezbollah," and to...
Education-focused startup Udaress won the 5th edition of the Startup Competition ESA-HEC Paris on Thursday. The event was organized by L’Orient-Le Jour and the Smart ESA incubator, in partnership...
The Israeli army on Wednesday dropped thousands of leaflets on Gaza City urging all residents to leave amid an intensified military offensive on the Palestinian territory's main city, an AFP...
BEIRUT— "The threats" of a wider war in Lebanon have "declined greatly," but still come up "from time to time," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in his speech on Tuesday night ahead of the...
Two suspects allegedly involved in a shootout with a Lebanese Army patrol in the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon have been arrested, the army announced on Wednesday. The shootout erupted on...
Israeli forces launched more deadly strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, according to medical sources and the military, which said it targeted Hamas militants operating from inside a U.N. agency...
The U.S. intelligence chief on Tuesday accused Iran of egging on protests inside the United States against the Gaza war, including by paying demonstrators. Avril Haines,...
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Israeli police said two people were killed Tuesday by rocket fire in the annexed Golan Heights. The deaths came after a Syria war monitor said an Israeli strike in the...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met CIA director William Burns Tuesday in Cairo, where U.S. and Israeli delegations discussed efforts for a Gaza truce. Sisi's...
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
