The U.N. was able to bring about 75,000 liters of fuel into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, “the first shipment of its kind in 130 days,” the spokesperson for the secretary-general announced Thursday,...
The Lebanese Army warned citizens Thursday about the "danger" of certain applications or networks used by Israel to "contact and recruit" agents to work for it. "The army...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is ready to negotiate a permanent cease-fire in Gaza during a 60-day truce, provided that the Palestinian territory is demilitarized, in a video...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Thursday that the decree to renew the mandate of the independent national commission responsible for the case of disappeared persons, which expired on July 3,...
BEIRUT — Four volunteers from the Darb Akkar environmental protection association traveled to Syria Thursday to participate in firefighting operations, according to our correspondent in the North....
Commander-in-Chief of the Lebanese Army, General Rodolph Haykal, received the Director General of the Qatari Fund for Development, Fahed bin Hamad Al-Slaiti, at Yarze on Thursday. Accompanied by...
BEIRUT — Education Minister Rima Karami inspected Thursday examination centers in Saida and Sour, where official baccalaureate exams took place across all four specialities. "We are standing...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday he was "hopeful" that a cease-fire agreement could be reached in the Gaza Strip. "We are hopeful. I mean, ultimately, we hope they...
BEIRUT — No/Mad Utopia, the gallery project launched last year by Marie-Mathilde Jaber, resides in an apartment block of mandate or early republic vintage. It is a fitting venue for its current...
"Supporter of terrorists" and "danger to the nation": This is how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describes Knesset lawmaker Ayman Odeh. Targeted by the head of...
Yemen's Houthis sank two cargo ships in the Red Sea this week, the first flare-up in seven months in the Iran-backed group's years-long campaign to choke global shipping in protest over...
As part of the “Civic Engagement for Engineers” course, six engineering students from the Lebanese American University, along with six others from Georgia Tech, have developed an educational device...
In Gaza, the taps have gone dry. As the war grinds into its 21st month, over two million residents face a manufactured water catastrophe — not entirely driven by this year’s record-breaking heat...
BEIRUT — Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri called for a joint session to be held on Firday between the Parliament Bureau and the Administration and Justice Committee, according to a statement run...
“Who created God?” “Does the universe have an end?” “If you dig a really deep hole, where do you end up?” Children often ask daunting questions — ones that even adults struggle to answer.But what...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army killed a man and injured to others in a drone strike that targeted his moped and he was driving in the southern Lebanese village of Mansouri, in Sour district on Thursday...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the United States is considering imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for the Palestinian...
On July 10, the Beirut Waterfront will pulse with the unmistakable sound of Queen — not from Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor or John Deacon, but from God Save the Queen , the Argentine...
On July 1, Saudi Arabia announced it had officially inaugurated its first Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) missile battery. The announcement was made during the visit of CENTCOM Chief...
BEIRUT — A United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol entered the Sour district village of Aitit on Thursday morning without a Lebanese Army escort, prompting residents of the town to...
“With a name like mine and the way I look, it wasn’t easy,” says Mohamed Cheikh, almost without resentment. The winner of the second season of Top Chef France recalls how, growing up, his options...
BEIRUT — Tuk-tuk owners in Tripoli blocked the Palma highway in both directions on Thursday, obstructing traffic, according to local media outlets. On Wednesday , Tuk-tuk drivers in northern...
A Shiite religious dignitary was shot dead in the Homs region, in central Syria, an NGO said Thursday, with the country's highest Shiite spiritual authority denouncing an...
“Iran is grateful for the firm and unequivocal condemnation by the BRICS of the recent Israeli and American military aggression,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday on X. His...
Israel's military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen on Thursday, with Yemen's Houthis later claiming responsibility for the attack, which followed Israeli strikes on Houthi...
A taboo has been broken. On Wednesday, activists and journalists opposed to Hezbollah filed a request to open a judicial investigation against the party’s secretary-general, Naim Qassem, before...
ATHENS — Rescuers pulled three more crew members and a security guard alive from the Red Sea on Thursday, maritime security sources said, a day after Houthi militants sank the Greek ship Eternity...
DAMASCUS — Syria reiterated its rejection of federalism on Wednesday following a meeting with a Kurdish military official, calling on Kurdish forces to join the ranks of government forces....
GAZA — Overwhelmed doctors and patients at Gaza's largest medical center could soon be plunged into darkness because of dwindling fuel supplies, which doctors say threaten to paralyze al-Shifa...
A top U.S. State Department official waived nine mandatory counterterrorism and anti-fraud safeguards to rush a $30 million award last month to a Gaza aid group backed by the Trump...
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 reflections on her life with L'Orient Today...
While southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley have come under near-daily Israeli strikes despite a cease-fire in place since November, the country’s north was hit for the first time since the...
Sources close to Gaza cease-fire negotiations have indicated that certain roadblocks in drafting the agreement have been overcome, Axios reports, citing specifically the distribution of...
In a Lebanese Army barracks parking lot in Sour, Lebanese Humvees sit side by side with armored vehicles from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s Force Commander Reserve (FCR). Surrounded...
21:52 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of events in the region. We will be back tomorrow with more news updates. 21:03 Beirut Time ⚡Israeli...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, July 10 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:Announcements from Netanyahu as he wraps up his...
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
