A handover ceremony took place Tuesday afternoon at the Interior Ministry between the outgoing minister, Bassam Mawlawi, and the new minister, Ahmad Hajjar, according to the state-run National News...
Israel threatened on Tuesday to resume "intense fighting" in Gaza if no hostages were released this weekend, echoing a warning from U.S. President Donald Trump that has strained the...
Secretary-General of the Future Movement Ahmad Hariri, who concluded his tour in North Lebanon on Tuesday, stated that the speech by former Prime Minister Saad Hariri during the commemoration of...
The head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Gebran Bassil, stated on Tuesday that his party is now "in opposition," claiming that the composition of the new Nawaf Salam government,...
Is the porous Lebanese-Syrian border — from which Hezbollah, among others, has long benefited — a thing of the past? Following the fierce clashes in Syria over the past few days between the new...
Lebanon is sinking further into corruption, according to the latest edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in the world published Tuesday by the NGO Transparency International. The...
The president of the Order of Pharmacists, Joe Salloum, held a press conference on Tuesday to demand an increase in the salary of retirees from liberal professions, including pharmacists. "We...
Since last Friday, clashes have erupted along the northern Lebanese-Syrian border between "Lebanese clans" accused of smuggling and new Syrian security forces — formerly Hay’at Tahrir...
For 13 years, she spent her days in the Lebanese prison system, a voluntary prisoner, creating plays with inmates, attempting to repair within them whatever drives them to crime through drama...
During his visit to Lebanon, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó was received Tuesday by President Joseph Aoun. He assured the president that Hungary "is awaiting cooperation...
After just starting her role as the new social affairs minister, Haneen Sayed is already facing criticism on social media from those calling for the departure of Syrian migrants and refugees from...
The new Lebanese foreign minister, Joe Rajjeh, officially took office Tuesday at Bustros Palace following a handover ceremony with his predecessor, Abdallah Bou Habib. The ministry’s director...
The first Olympic Esports Games, initially scheduled for this year, will now take place in 2027 in Riyadh, further cementing Saudi Arabia’s growing influence in global sports. The postponement,...
It is a story of totally opposite characters who should never have met. An improbable and wildly funny encounter between Badih (Ali Bleibel), a budding actor desperately waiting, from his bed, for...
Hezbollah announced on Tuesday the funeral program for its former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, set for Feb. 23 in Beirut. Killed on Sept. 27, 2024, in an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of the...
“On the LL 1,000 bills, there is the entire Phoenician alphabet. On the LL 100,000 ones, there is a depiction of a Sidonian ship. And yet nobody notices. It’s incredible for people who constantly...
Hamas released another three Israeli hostages on Saturday. Pale and emaciated, they stood on the same stage used in the last five hostage releases, surrounded by masked fighters wearing green...
Nawaf Salam’s Cabinet held its first session in Baabda on Tuesday, where it addressed its first political challenge: drafting the ministerial statement on which Parliament will take a vote of...
The Free Patriotic Movement is one of the few political parties completely absent from Nawaf Salam's government. While some Sunni-majority groups or blocs and even the Marada are also absent,...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi called Tuesday for the reconstruction of Gaza "without displacing the Palestinians," after Donald Trump said he might suspend aid to Egypt and...
Her health condition is hanging by a thread. In recent days, numerous reports have raised alarms about the fate of Laila Soueif, 68, who has been on a hunger strike for more than 130 days to demand...
Saudi Arabia has released Salma al-Shehab, a Ph.D. student and activist who was detained for more than four years over critical tweets about the government, human rights organizations announced....
The new Minister of Interior and Municipalities, General Ahmad Hajjar, requested on Tuesday that the Director General of the Internal Security Forces (ISF), General Imad Osman, remove the...
The Belarusian Foreign Minister, Maxim Ryzhenkov, conducted a tour with Lebanese officials on Tuesday, starting at the Baabda Palace where he invited Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to Minsk,...
The first Cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Nawaf Salam was held Tuesday in Baabda, where a committee was formed to draft the government’s ministerial statement. President Joseph Aoun and Salam...
BEIRUT — Residents of Rubb Thalathin were finally able to return home on Monday after the Lebanese Army completed road-clearing operations in the Marjayoun district village the day before. Over...
An 86-year-old Israeli kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, has died in captivity in the Gaza Strip, announced on Tuesday by the Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel, where the hostage lived....
Rain seeps through the cracks and into the UNIFIL armored vehicle as it travels along a road near the Blue Line, towards Odaisseh in Marjayoun district. On the other side of the border, a thick fog...
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Donald Trump described Hamas' threat to postpone the next release of hostages as "terrible," vowing a real "hell" if they are not "all returned by noon on...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 11:00 a.m. – A press conference by the media...
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
