DOHA — The Palestinian squad at the Asian Cup in Qatar hope to bring honor to their compatriots in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip with their first victory at the tournament since the team's debut in...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Member of Parliament Waddah Sadek, also member of the Oct. 17, 2019 protest movement, condemned the "corruption and insecurity" within Beirut International Airport (BIA) this...
THE HAGUE — South Africa accused Israel on Thursday of genocide against Palestinians, during opening remarks at the top UN court, in the hopes that a landmark case could compel Israel to cease its...
GENEVA — The head of Human Rights Watch praised South Africa for bringing Israel's military campaign against Gaza to the top UN court and said the international community would be responsible...
BEIRUT — The US Embassy in Beirut announced on Thursday, through a statement, the arrival of Ambassador Lisa A. Johnson to Lebanon. Johnson, succeeding Dorothy Shea, previously served as the US...
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that hypocrisy and lies had been presented to the UN's top court, adding that South Africa's accusation against Israel of...
Talks about what’s happening in southern Lebanon are moving quickly, especially since both Beirut and Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, are showing openness. The details of the agreement and...
BEIRUT — Days before a deadline to ratify a new rent law for commercial properties, controversy remains over measures that would allow landlords take back their properties from tenants and...
Both Hamas and family members of two Al Jazeera journalists killed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza rejected claims Thursday by the Israeli army that the two journalists were "terror operatives."...
BEIRUT— A man claiming to be the son of an account holder at a Fransabank branch in the southern suburbs of Beirut, threatened to set himself on fire on Thursday, demanding the release of his...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese waste management firm is set to launch the country’s first app for businesses to exchange recyclables in bulk — a move the group says will help chip away at a growing garbage...
Since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, the issue of demographic consequences related to the massive influx of refugees into Lebanon has caused a stir. Fear surrounding change in the...
In a press release on Wednesday, Banque du Liban (BDL) urged Lebanese banks to register with its new Bloomberg-run foreign exchange platform, which it introduced as the Bloomberg Interbank Matching...
Israel working with the region and creating a path to a Palestinian state is the best way to isolate Iran, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. Blinken was...
23,469 Palestinians have been killed and 59,604 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, Gaza's health ministry said on Thursday.
An Israeli strike on a civil defense center in southern Lebanon on Thursday killed two rescuers and destroyed an ambulance, according to the rescue force, which is affiliated with the armed...
BEIRUT — US special envoy Amos Hochstein said Thursday that there is an inability to reach a long-term agreement regarding the fighting along Lebanon's border with Israel, and that, in the...
The Israeli military on Thursday denied it had bombed an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip a day earlier which killed four medics and two other people. "A review was...
Armed men in "military-style" uniforms boarded an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, a maritime risk management company said, the latest in a spate of shipping incidents in the region....
Israel's police said Thursday they had arrested two Palestinian supporters of the Islamic State group who had plans to carry out "terrorist attacks" targeting the country's security forces....
Israel bombarded the southern Gaza Strip overnight, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to travel to Egypt on Thursday for more talks aimed at containing Israel's war against Hamas....
South Africa on Thursday accused Israel of breaching the UN Genocide Convention, arguing that even the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack could not justify such alleged actions, as it launched a landmark...
The United Nations Security Council demanded on Wednesday an "immediate" end to attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea. The resolution passed "demands...
Israel's army claimed on Wednesday that two Al Jazeera journalists it killed in an air strike in Gaza were "terror operatives." Hamza Wael Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuria, who...
Officials in Iraqi Kurdistan announced that an "explosive drone" targeting the international anti-jihadist coalition in Iraq was downed on Wednesday near Arbil airport, the latest such attack...
The United Nations will launch an information-gathering mission at the end of the month over accusations of sexual assault by Hamas during the October attack in Israel, a spokesman said...
22:24 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage from day 97 of the Hamas-Israel war. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis, right here at L'Orient...
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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
