SOUTH LEBANON — Thursday night Israel began executing its previously threatened operation on the Ali Taher hill, a strategic point south of Nabatieh, with massive explosions sending shockwaves that...
In January 1998, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., urged Bill Clinton to make regime change in Iraq an official objective....
A 4.1-magnitude earthquake was recorded in southern Lebanon, the United States Geological Survey said, after massive explosions were reported while Israel said conducted massive explosions on the...
Recent satellite images analyzed on Thursday appear to show oil slicks near the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S. strikes on tankers suspected of links to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)....
This summer, Nabil Attar spent a few weeks in Damascus with his family and friends. He also spent quite a bit of time in the family kitchen and roamed the city in search of new opportunities. It...
BEIRUT — The annual energy meeting, the Lebanon Grand Energy Event (LGEE), is bringing together regulators, donors, and companies from the sector in Beirut from September 9 to 11. Organized by the...
BEIRUT — Thirteen years after the introduction of an unconventional and emblematic mechanism for financing the digital economy through bank funds, Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank) could recover...
French shipping company CMA CGM will invest $100 million to finance expansion work at the Beirut Port container terminal, which it has been operating since 2021, according to an announcement made...
SOUTH LEBANON — The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday said that Hezbollah had used cluster munitions during two attacks on the city of Metula (close to the border...
Passed on Aug. 12 by Parliament and enacted on Sept. 4 by President Joseph Aoun, the general amnesty law was suspended Thursday by the Constitutional Council (CC). Proposed for several years, this...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun declared during the Cabinet meeting on Thursday that "it's time for the state to return to the South," assuring that he had "heard the calls from...
BEIRUT — Contract teachers from the Lebanese University (LU) organized a sit-in Thursday on the road leading to the presidential palace in Baabda, as the Cabinet was meeting, notably to examine the...
“Two minutes is all it took to destroy four decades of hard work,” Dr. Ahmad Ghandour, head of Ghandour hospital told us from his home in Arab Salim. For decades, people in Nabatieh Fawqa and...
A French investigation into alleged human trafficking that allowed U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to commit abuses is following several leads on potential recruiters, a prosecutor said Thursday....
British-led sanctions over settlement expansion in the West Bank may have the unintended effect of emboldening the Israeli right even further ahead of elections, analysts and a diplomatic source...
Interview by Stéphanie Khouri for the podcast "L'Orient-La Nuit," recorded in Paris.You left Beirut with you parents in 1983 when you were a year and a half. What remains for you of...
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar’s promise to Nabatieh, made after a high-level security meeting at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, is so far being fulfilled. After calling the city’s...
Frozen Greek yogurt is the latest addition to Beirut’s dessert scene, with Kryo having opened its doors in Saifi Village in mid-August. The new spot, launched by Ali Hamade, Ali Mansour and Karim...
Algeria said Thursday it was cutting diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates following years of tension, with Algiers accusing Abu Dhabi of interfering in national and regional affairs....
Dropping from 50.7 points in July to 50.1 in August, the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which measures the morale of purchasing managers at 400 companies in Lebanon, slipped by a few tenths...
Expressing fears that agreements are being made "at the expense" of the Lebanese state and over the "threats" posed by infrastructures that Hezbollah may have developed in...
Beirut Wings, a flight training company founded in 2006 that operates light aircraft, on Wednesday denied any wrongdoing in connection with an incident at Beirut airport on Sept. 5 that caused no...
Seven years after its Korean rival Samsung, American company Apple redefined its flagship smartphone on Wednesday with the launch of the Duo, a foldable iPhone priced at $1,999, banking on its...
Picture Sara Abdo, her raw sensitivity, tense performance, and intense presence, inhabited by a humanoid issuing orders through an algorithm installed within her system. Imagine the gentle Elie...
Yemen's Houthis seized control of the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha on Thursday, a Yemeni military source told AFP , as the Iran-backed group reported fresh strikes by Saudi forces....
Britain has taken its toughest stance yet. On Sept. 8, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband denounced what he called “ethnic cleansing” by “terrorist settlers” in the occupied West Bank. In announcing new...
Senior White House advisers privately discussed with President Donald Trump the possibility that the war against Iran could last until the end of his term in 2029, according to U.S. officials cited...
While the Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank) and the government continue to spar over what the state’s obligations to the financial sector, another debt remains unresolved: the eurobonds. Since...
Long queues formed the day before H&M stores opened, accompanied by scuffles, morning hysteria, and near-instant sellouts. The initial collaboration between Swedish fast-fashion leader Hennes...
Yemen's Houthi rebels reported about 40 airstrikes launched by Saudi forces on Thursday in a fresh salvo following attacks by the Iran-backed group against the kingdom. "The Saudi...
If one were to ask the Lebanese Army to use force to disarm Hezbollah, its answer would be a warning about the risk of “civil war” — the scenario invoked every few months, one that would serve...
22:47 Beirut Time Israeli has resumed its strikes on southern Lebanon, including in the vicinity of Ali Taher Israel has bombed Nabatieh Fawqa on two occasions, targeting the woodland...
Some 1.3 billion people worldwide this year experienced the hottest June-to-August period on record, according to an AFP analysis of meteorological data from the European Copernicus program....
An Israeli strike in Gaza on Thursday killed a family of four including two children, Palestinian hospital and security sources said. "The bodies of four members of the Ahmad family were...
Oil prices hovered above $100 a barrel on Thursday, a day after Iran said it attacked more than a dozen vessels trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran tightened its grip on the vital...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026 Some key things to watch today:10 a.m. The Association of Retired Engineers in the North convenes a general...
