The process for military and security appointments has begun following a meeting Tuesday in Baabda Presidential Palace between President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, two days ahead...
BEIRUT — Beirut Souks is showing signs of revival, with new store openings drawing shoppers back to the once-thriving commercial hub."It's really nice that Beirut Souks is back, it brings...
BEIRUT — Lebanese American Thomas Barrack was officially appointed Tuesday by President Donald Trump as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. His name was first put forward on Dec. 10, 2024, on a list of...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri received the ambassadors of the Quintet countries at Ain al-Tineh on Tuesday, with whom he notably discussed the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Lebanon, reports...
An Israeli court on Tuesday issued a "gag order" on the investigation into the alleged links between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office and individuals connected to the Qatari...
The cease-fire monitoring committee met in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, on Tuesday, leading to an agreement to launch "discussions" over the Lebanon-Israel border demarcation, according to a...
The command of the Lebanese Army announced on Tuesday, in a statement, that one of its patrols freed three Syrian nationals who were kidnapped in the Hermel region for ransom. According to the...
BEIRUT — "We are taking the necessary measures to prevent things from getting out of control in Tripoli," a Lebanese Army source told L'Orient Today on Monday, following a weekend of heightened...
The Lebanese Forces (LF) denounced on Tuesday the remarks of the deputy prime minister, Tarek Mitri, on the disarmament of Hezbollah, stating that it hindered the mandate of President Joseph Aoun....
BEIRUT — All sorts of imaginable objects featuring Hassan Nasrallah, the former Hezbollah leader assassinated during Israeli strikes in late September in the southern suburbs of Beirut, have...
"I don’t know if I want to talk to you. The media destroyed my life."His greeting was quick and cold.In Room 634 of an abandoned hotel in Maameltein, near Jounieh, a young man with a...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam went to Baabda Palace on Tuesday at 3 p.m. for a meeting with President Joseph Aoun. He left an hour later without making a statement, according to the state-run National...
Eurowings, one of the airlines of the German Lufthansa Group, decided to resume its flights to Beirut starting March 17, according to two sources within travel agencies in Lebanon on Tuesday....
Lebanese authorities have reportedly seized $4 million that unknown individuals attempted to bring into the country through Syria, according to the pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, which cited a...
Elon Musk said X was hit Monday by a major cyberattack, raising questions as to whether the politically divisive billionaire is being targeted or his decision to gut staff at what was once Twitter...
BEIRUT — The Syrian interim government, led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, has reached an agreement with Druze representatives from Sweida province to integrate the community into state...
BEIRUT — During a meeting at Baabda Palace on Tuesday, President Joseph Aoun called on the committee responsible for monitoring the Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire agreement to pressure Israel to...
After 26 months of impediments, Tarek Bitar, the judicial judge tasked with investigating the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut port explosion, is finally free to proceed with his work. This came after acting...
The head of Kfar Shuba and Arkoub (Hasbaya) municipality, Qassem al-Kader, called on Tuesday for the accelerated reconstruction of the village, which was heavily damaged by Israeli strikes during...
Since returning from London — where she spent the years of the Civil War — in 1994, Laura al-Khazen Lahoud has dedicated much of her time and energy to bolstering Lebanon's culture and tourism...
A fact-finding committee formed by Syria's new authorities to investigate a wave of deadly violence said on Tuesday the country was determined to "prevent unlawful revenge."...
The Israeli military said its forces shot dead three Palestinian militants during an operation in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, while Palestinian sources reported a woman killed. During a...
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Syria's new authorities to ensure accountability for the mass killings of hundreds of civilians in recent days in the coastal heartland of the Alawite...
Israel's military said on Tuesday that its warplanes struck southern Syria overnight, targeting air defense systems and other military sites in the latest attack on the neighboring country....
Alexandre Boldachev was immersed in music even before birth—his mother, a pianist and teacher at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, continued performing in concerts while pregnant. Born in 1990 in...
Ukraine and the United States began talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday with a partial cease-fire with Russia on the table, just hours after Kyiv conducted a major drone attack targeting the Moscow...
Ghiath Dalla is one of the main leaders of the uprising launched last Thursday by supporters of the ousted Syrian president against the new security forces in the Alawite majority coastal provinces...
Neither at the Grand Serail nor at the Baabda Palace. During last Thursday’s Cabinet session, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that future meetings will be held at the Cabinet’s headquarters, near...
Palestinian factions condemned Tuesday the assassination of Abdel Rahman Abu al-Mouna, a commander of the Jenin Brigades, by the Palestinian Authority's security forces. Abu al-Mouna, an...
On Monday, an Israeli delegation arrived in Doha to resume talks on extending the Gaza cease-fire agreement. Exactly one week after the first direct contact between the U.S. envoy for hostages,...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem’s first televised interview was highly anticipated in political circles, especially in light of what is seen as Hezbollah’s weakening since the Nov. 27...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stated on Monday that he was working to launch "reforms on all levels" to attract investors to Lebanon, following more than a year of war between Hezbollah and...
"We are entering a new phase, without a doubt. But this phase does not mean a change of principles, only an evolution of methods," stated Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem on Sunday...
Discrimination and attacks against American Muslims and Arabs rose by 7.4 percent in 2024 due to heightened Islamophobia caused by U.S. ally Israel's war in Gaza and the resulting college...
Fuel prices in Lebanon dropped again significantly on Tuesday, according to the latest price list published by the Energy and Water Ministry, including the price of a gas cylinder which had mostly...
On this February morning, Palmyra is silent. An almost unsettling stillness lingers, broken only by the cold wind whistling through the Greco-Roman ruins of the ancient Syrian city. At the entrance...
21:32 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage of events in the region for today. Thanks for joining us, we'll be back again tomorrow morning. Goodnight! 20:44 Beirut...
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan on Tuesday condemned Israel's decision to cut electricity supply to the war-battered Gaza Strip, calling in separate statements for the international community to...
The head of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Tuesday that an accord reached with the new leaders in Damascus is a "real opportunity to build a new Syria."...
Syrian state media reported multiple Israeli airstrikes in the southern province of Daraa on Monday night. Since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel has carried out...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Catch up on yesterday's live coverage here.Tuesday, March 11, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:•...
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