A man was killed Friday in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced, with Israel claiming he was involved in weapons smuggling operations from Iran. Despite...
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced Friday that a 23-year-old man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in a village in the occupied West Bank, which had already been the scene of clashes a...
The international conference on the future of the Palestinian state, initially scheduled for June at the United Nations in New York, is now set for July 28 and 29, AFP learned on Friday from...
The Lebanese Army announced Friday via a statement published on the X network the arrest of more than fifty Syrians in an irregular situation on Lebanese territory. Army patrols conducted searches...
More than four years after the assassination of intellectual and anti-Hezbollah activist Lokman Slim, which took place on Feb. 3, 2021, the foundation bearing his name continues its commitment to...
France has granted refugee status to a Palestinian woman and her son, considering that "they had a well-founded fear of personal persecution" if they returned to this territory, due to...
Four crew members of a cargo ship attacked and sunk by Yemen’s Houthi rebels this week are presumed dead, the European Union’s Aspides naval force deployed in the area said Friday, as search...
The Israeli army carried out a strike late Friday afternoon with four missiles using a drone, hitting a car traveling between the towns of Nmeirieh and Sharqieh in the Nabatieh district. The attack...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam briefed European Union (EU) ambassadors on Friday on the ongoing reforms and what is expected to be implemented in the coming weeks and months, according to a...
The former public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Judge Ghassan Oueidat, did not appear at the hearing scheduled for Friday before the investigating judge at the Court of Justice, Tarek...
The first lady of Lebanon, Nehmat Aoun, announced Monday that she was hiring a person with a disability for her team at the presidential palace in Baabda. Originally from Bednayel (Bekaa) and a...
GAZA — At six months pregnant, Fatima Arfa wishes she could be buying cute clothes and toys for the special day when she delivers a healthy, safe child. Instead she spends much of her time seeking...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti, a Russian state-owned domestic news agency, that Iran, the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices saw only slight changes on Friday in Lebanon, with gasoline rates dropping by a few thousand lira, while diesel and heating oil prices increased minimally. The price of a...
President Joseph Aoun ruled out normalization between Lebanon and Israel on Friday, while expressing hope for peaceful relations, despite Israel still attacking Lebanon on a daily basis and...
Can Lebanon soon close the file on disarming Palestinian camps? The question has been on everyone’s lips for several weeks. First, because the dismantling of Palestinian factions’ arsenals was...
BEIRUT — Syrian sources on Friday denied reports published by Syria TV, a Syrian television channel close to the government, that Damascus was considering retaliatory measures against Beirut after...
Um Kulthoum, Abdel Halim, Asmahan, Warda ... What if we brought them back to life, not in a museum, but in a club?This is the bold, yet perfectly executed bet of "Love and Revenge," a...
BEIRUT — The Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholics, Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, conveyed to President Joseph Aoun an official invitation to attend the canonization ceremony of Bishop...
BEIRUT — The head of the National Farmers’ Union has warned that the prices of some vegetables could triple after July 15 compared to their current levels, citing this year's weather conditions...
The most recent meeting of the parliamentary subcommittee tasked with overseeing amendments to the banking sector reform draft law, held on Thursday, July 10, was once again particularly heated. At...
In a rare instance for the Israeli parliament, on July 9, the Knesset welcomed Saudi Arabian journalist Abdul Aziz Al-Khamis and Syrian national Shadi Martini, both from countries that have not...
President Joseph Aoun received on Friday at Baabda a delegation from the Arab and International Relations Council, a think tank based in Kuwait and chaired by Kuwaiti politician and businessman...
GAZA — Doctors at Gaza's largest hospital say crippling fuel shortages have led them to put several premature babies in single incubators as they struggle to keep the newborns alive while Israel...
GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office said on Friday that it had recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near...
BEIRUT — Minister of Agriculture Nizar Hani told local television channel MTV on Thursday that the ministry is working toward the establishment of the regulatory authority for a medical and...
Huspy, the company co-founded by Lebanese Jad Antoun and specialized in digital real estate, announced Monday a $59 million Series B funding round. The goal: to strengthen its presence in the...
SULAYMANIYAH — Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants have begun handing over their weapons in a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant first step...
Tom Barrack’s courtesy and positive tone after receiving Lebanon’s response to the U.S. proposal should reassure neither the Lebanese state nor Hezbollah. This “encouraging” reaction is meant only...
BRUSSELS — The European Union's diplomatic service on Thursday presented 10 options for political action against Israel after it found "indications" last month that Israel breached human rights...
Saudi Arabia has just reached a symbolic milestone: starting in January 2026, foreigners will be authorized to acquire real estate in certain areas of Riyadh and Jeddah. This change, adopted...
UNITED NATIONS — United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between al-Qaeda and the Islamist group leading Syria's interim government, an unpublished U.N. report...
JERUSALEM/CAIRO — An Israeli airstrike hit Palestinians near a medical center in Gaza on Thursday, killing 10 children and six adults, local health authorities said, as cease-fire talks dragged...
Her name is more often associated with the numerous pressure campaigns against her than with her work as United Nations special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories. Targeted by Israel for...
21:46 Beirut Time We are closing our LIVE coverage of events in the region for tonight. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 21:43 Beirut Time...
OPEC said Thursday that demand for crude will continue to expand through at least 2050, calling efforts to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels an unworkable fantasy. In its latest annual report...
A man of Lebanese origin, owner of a restaurant in Spain, has been making headlines on social media recently after a controversial incident aimed at alleged Israeli customers. In a video that has...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, July 11, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:Netanyahu returns to Israel after a week in Washington,...
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
