Five migrants drown off southwest Turkey: Coastguard
Five migrants drowned in the Aegean Sea off Turkey's southwest coast Saturday after setting out in a rubber dinghy, apparently bound for Greece, the Turkish coastguard said. ...
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US general warns of IS 'army in detention' in Syria, Iraq
A US general warned Saturday that the Middle East faces the looming threat of an Islamic State group "army in detention," after visiting prisons and camps in northeastern Syria holding suspected...
11 March 2023
Berri hails 'historic agreement' between Riyadh and Tehran
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri Saturday welcomed the "historic agreement" reached Friday between Saudi Arabia and Iran to restore their diplomatic relations, severed for more...
11 March 2023
‘LL1,500 for the kishik manoushe? We are no longer used to it’
A traditional oven ( saj ), a multitude of ingredients essential to make Lebanese specialties, bewitching aromas and a car broadcasting music, windows open: it is 10 o’clock and, like every Sunday,...
Antonine GALLENNE, 11 March 2023
Three truffle hunters killed, 26 kidnapped in the North : Monitor
Militants suspected of being affiliated with the so-called Islamic State group killed three truffle hunters and kidnapped at least 26 others in northern Syria Saturday, a war monitor said. It is...
11 March 2023
Five Sierra Leoneans die in residential fire near Beirut
BEIRUT — A fire in a residential building in Sid al-Bouchrieh, Metn, left at least five people dead and three injured Saturday, a spokesman for the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) told L'Orient-Le Jour ....
13 March 2023
Iran says deal reached to buy Russian fighter jets
Iran has finalized a deal to buy Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia, Iranian state media reported, as defense cooperation between the two countries deepens. The air...
11 March 2023
Iraqi students assaulted in Beirut: ISF says officer's response was 'spontaneous'
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) issued a statement Friday evening related to an incident at Beirut's Ministry of Education Thursday. Based on a video published by online media platform...
11 March 2023
Yemen's warring rivals discuss prisoner swap in Geneva
Representatives of Yemen's government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels kicked off talks in Geneva Saturday for an exchange of prisoners, with the UN urging both sides to engage in "serious"...
11 March 2023
Fuel prices rise after Lebanese lira drops on the parallel market
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced a significant increase in fuel prices Saturday. This increase is linked to the sharp depreciation of the Lebanese lira to the dollar on the parallel market,...
11 March 2023
Tehran-Riyadh rapprochement reshuffles Lebanon’s deck of cards
It is now a reality. More than six years after diplomatic ties were severed, and following lengthy negotiations, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed at a meeting in Beijing to restore ties and reopen...
Salah HIJAZI, 11 March 2023
Lebanon needs a Lebanese — not Iranian-Saudi — rapprochement: Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhane Al-Saud said Friday night that Lebanon "needs a Lebanese rapprochement" to overcome its political-socio-economic crisis, not Riyadh-Tehran normalization....
11 March 2023
Gunmen kill two police in southeast Iran: State media
Gunmen ambushed and killed two Iranian policemen while on patrol in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, state media reported Saturday. The officers had...
11 March 2023
Tunisia's Saied to restore diplomatic ties with Syria
Tunisian President Kais Saied has said he plans to restore diplomatic relations with Syria, more than a decade after they were broken off to protest Damascus' repression of its political...
