Condemnation of Israel's assassination of six journalists, five of whom worked for Al Jazeera, resounded across the globe on Monday, including from Lebanon. Hezbollah described the bombing of...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, responding to a graphic circulating online in which top Israeli officials are marked for assassination, renewed his threats against Iranian Supreme Leader Ali...
Norway's sovereign wealth fund said Monday that it was selling its investments in 11 Israeli companies following reports it had invested in an Israeli jet engine maker even as the war in Gaza...
Israel killed six journalists on Sunday in an airstrike that directly targeted a media tent just outside Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital. Five of the journalists worked for Al Jazeera and a...
BEIRUT — Political and spiritual leaders of Lebanon’s Druze community on Monday condemned an attack on the National Hospital in Sweida, southern Syria, and the summary execution captured in a...
BEIRUT — Grand Mufti of Lebanon Abdel-Latif Derian, the country's highest Sunni authority, called for cooperation among Lebanese factions to support the government's attempts to reform and...
Interpol put a 53-year-old Lebanese man named Mohamed Lakkis, wanted by Angolan authorities for murder, on red notice on Monday. According to information published by two Angolan media outlets,...
JERUSALEM — Israel's new offensive in Gaza City could take weeks to start, leaving the door open for a cease-fire, officials say, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would get...
Al Jazeera staff gathered at the news network's Doha headquarters on Monday for a televised memorial for five colleagues killed by Israel overnight in Gaza. Anas al-Sharif, a...
BEIRUT — Lebanon is facing potential electricity rationing as a heat wave drives up consumption, triggering an online campaign against the Ministry of Energy and Water and its current leadership...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah political council vice president Mahmoud Qomati on Monday warned that disarming the group “won’t happen without bloodshed,” accusing the Lebanese government of having “sold out...
BEIRUT — A fire broke out at the landfill south of Saida on Monday, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the South reported, amid a heatwave that descended upon Lebanon late last week and is...
BEIRUT — Passenger traffic at Beirut airport reached 3,872,223 in the first seven months of 2025, up 3.23 percent from 3,750,999 during the same period last year, according to airport data. The...
BEIRUT — Kataeb Party leader and MP Samy Gemayel reiterated his party's rejection of all Iranian statements on Monday after a meeting at the Grand Serail with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and...
At the end of August, the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) may expire due to a lack of consensus in the U.N. Security Council. Long considered a diplomatic formality,...
Italy's defense minister said in an interview published Monday that Israel's government had "lost its reason and humanity" over Gaza and signaled an openness to potential...
Hezbollah on Monday condemned the Israeli strike that killed six journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, a prominent from Al Jazeera, in Gaza City, denouncing it as a "war crime." The six...
Gaza's residents gathered on Monday for the funeral of five Al Jazeera staff members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike, with Israel calling one of them a "terrorist"...
The new Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad al-Assaad, who was appointed a month ago, is expected to arrive in Beirut on Sunday, Aug. 17, to examine the issue of disarming the Palestinian...
Druze leaders in Lebanon, including the Progressive Socialist Party, headed by MP Taymour Jumblatt, former minister and MP, Talal Arslan, and Sheikh Akl Sami Abi al-Mouna condemned the attack on...
How does a work of art achieve iconic status? What are the forms, recurring motifs, identity figures, sites of memory and major events that crystallize collective issues and shape the aura of an...
Marcel Khalifeh returned to South Lebanon on a full-moon night in Saida, to its citadel, fishermen, poor, resistance fighters, and the audience that knows his old songs by heart. He came back with...
The Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday was vandalized with graffiti condemning Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, triggering widespread condemnation from religious leaders and politicians....
The head of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, warned Monday against the "Iranian threat against Lebanon," following statements by officials in Tehran rejecting the Salam government's...
Slimane made an unforgettable debut with his Lebanese audience Saturday night at the Jbeil International Festival, in a long-awaited concert marked by his soulful voice and emotional storytelling....
Greta Thunberg said she and a Palestinian activist group plan to sail a new flotilla loaded with humanitarian aid to Gaza to break the "illegal Israeli siege." Two other attempts by...
On the night of Aug. 8, 2025 — a night so anticipated it almost felt unreal — Hezbollah supporters burned tires and blocked the road to Baalbeck.— “So, are we still going?”— “Do you think they’ll...
Last April, French-Lebanese investor Nadra Moussalem’s Colony Investment Management acquired a 51 percent stake in Perrotin, the renowned contemporary art gallery founded by Emmanuel Perrotin.This...
Tensions between the central government and the predominantly Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria continue to rise. On Saturday, Damascus withdrew from talks planned in Paris with the...
In the village of Hosh al-Sayed Ali, straddling the border between Lebanon and Syria, partially located in the Lebanese region of Hermel (Bekaa), Lebanese national Khodr Mohammad al-Hajj Hassan was...
“We cannot accept that in 10 or 20 years our children will read in history books that there was a genocide and that we did nothing,” said Maria Elena Délia, an Italian member of the Global Movement...
The president of the syndicate of gas station owners in Lebanon, Georges Brax, issued a statement Monday outlining a series of measures to be followed to strengthen public safety around gas pumps...
On Saturday, an explosion detonated in the Zibqine Valley, near Majdal Zoun (Sour district) in southern Lebanon, killing six Lebanese soldiers as they were dismantling a weapons depot, reportedly...
A conflict on Sunday night between members of the Douash and Hassaneh families in the town of Jiroun, located in the hills above Dinnieh in northern Lebanon, resulted in the deaths of two people...
A worker of Syrian nationality is suspected of killing his colleague, also Syrian, on Sunday evening in the village of Meshmesh (Akkar) by striking him on the head with a sharp object. The man is...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today...
“Why is it always us who have to help countries in trouble? Are we that rich?” one Algiers resident asked. “It never stops! After Africa, now we’re giving to Lebanon!”That was a common reaction in...
“The diaspora has always been Lebanon’s support and hope,” President Joseph Aoun said Friday at the fourth diaspora economic forum in Beirut . “When all sources of income dried up, only you kept...
The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council is traveling Monday to Iraq, then to Lebanon, where the government has approved a plan to disarm Hezbollah, an Iranian ally, according to...
Noor Alyacoubi, 27, a translator and media coordinator at a research center, has not left Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. She shares with L’Orient Today Gaza residents' mixed feelings and suspicions...
21:06 Beirut Time Katz threatens Khamenei, 'listen to the buzz' Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, responding to a graphic circulating online in which top Israeli officials...
Australia will recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday. "A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his plan to take control of Gaza City and target the remaining Hamas strongholds, saying Sunday it was "the best way to end the war,"...
A prominent Al Jazeera journalist, who had previously been threatened by Israel, was killed along with five journalists in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday in an attack condemned by journalists and...
Syrian rights activists renewed their calls for an independent investigation into violence last month in Druze-majority Sweida province after footage emerged Sunday appearing to show government...
Several hundred people marched on Sunday in London to demand Hamas release the Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian militant group in Gaza and criticize Britain's planned recognition of the...
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday the deputy head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog will arrive in Tehran the following day. The visit will be the first by a senior...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Aug. 11 2025Some key things to watch today:Updates on the situation in Gaza as mass starvation worsens and Israel plans to...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
