The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday added the names of 16 individuals, all Lebanese, as well as five entities operating in Lebanon, including al-Qard al-Hassan (Hezbollah's financial...
Three attack drones crashed Monday near the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura, in the Sour district of southern Lebanon. The announcement was made by...
The debate over the independence of the central bank — which has been temporarily overshadowed by the war and its consequences — is expected to resume on several fronts, notably in Parliament,...
Israeli fire continues to rain down on southern Lebanon, where airstrikes and drone bombings have killed around ten people in total over the past night and today, while the destruction of occupied...
Foreign Minister Joe Rajji was received Tuesday by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, during an official visit he has been conducting since Sunday to Rome and the Vatican....
Syrian authorities said Tuesday that they had arrested a former air force chief of staff under Bashar al-Assad who was sanctioned by the European Union including for his role in chemical attacks....
French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said on Tuesday that it wasn't certain whether the hantavirus strain involved in the outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship may have mutated, although...
Meet the new Abu Omar. Just a few months after the famous case of the Lebanese mechanic who posed as a member of the Saudi royal court to build ties with political figures, a new case of identity...
Sheikh Khaled Hoblos, released Tuesday from Roumieh Prison (Metn), where he had spent nearly 11 years, was welcomed as a hero in Tripoli before returning to his village of Bhanin, in the Minyeh...
On April 30, residents from villages surrounding the Srar landfill in Akkar staged a sit-in, blocking the site's entrance and stopping trucks coming from other regions, to protest the nuisances...
Adib Abdel Massih, MP for Koura, has joined the Kataeb parliamentary bloc. The move stems from a deal brokered through talks led by party leader Sami Gemayel. This deal appears to serve both sides’...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard held military exercises in capital Tehran to prepare for any confrontation, state media reported Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump warned a cease-fire in the...
BEIRUT — A group of Lebanese MPs held an emergency expanded meeting on the draft general amnesty law, amid ongoing political consultations with top state officials and parties, calling for...
In this landscape imbued with serenity, a certain sweetness of life and a scent of spring invite people to take a pause and suspend their cares, whether of the country or of the world. It feels...
BEIRUT — The Minister of Interior, Ahmad Hajjar, visited the Vehicle Registration Authority in Dikwaneh on Tuesday, where he inspected services and reiterated that ongoing reforms aim to prevent...
The rollout appears to have gone smoothly. After a 15-year absence, Visa and Mastercard are once again operating in Syria.On May 9, an official ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus marked...
The case of Elie Jasser’s — the thirty-something year-old dentist who was stabbed to death in his clinic in Ablah (Zahle) by a former soldier identified as S.F. on Feb. 1, 2022 — is back in the...
Iran should not use the Strait of Hormuz, which it has blocked since the start of the Middle East war, as a means to blackmail Gulf states, Qatar's top diplomat and premier said on Tuesday....
Israel sent Iron Dome air defense batteries and personnel to operate them in the United Arab Emirates during the war with Iran, the U.S. ambassador to Israel said on Tuesday. "Can I say a...
BEIRUT — Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine launched a platform on Tuesday, during a press conference at his office in Beirut, containing constantly updated data on the ongoing war between...
Kuwait said Tuesday that four people arrested earlier this month as they attempted to enter the country by sea have confessed to belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The four men — two...
The changes mark Syria’s first cabinet reshuffle since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Saturday launched a sweeping overhaul of the ruling...
Iran's chief negotiator said Tuesday that Washington must accept Tehran's latest peace plan or face failure, after U.S. President Donald Trump warned the truce in the Middle East war was on...
The Israeli parliament adopted a law overnight Monday to Tuesday establishing a special military court authorized to impose the death penalty to try Palestinians accused of participating in the...
Can one be both against Israel and against Hezbollah? While there are no polls on the subject, it is fair to say that a large part of Lebanese society would answer yes. Most feel no sympathy for a...
BEIRUT — Israeli forces carried out a weeklong “secret” operation in southern Lebanon that allowed them to cross the Litani River and advance toward the Nabatieh district, the Israeli army and...
BEIRUT — Israel is setting up a factory to produce a fleet of fiber-optic suicide drones to counter, among others, those used by Hezbollah that have claimed Israeli lives in recent weeks, Israeli...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem vowed "continued resistance" against Israel in a message to the party's fighters on Tuesday, saying the group would not “submit or surrender” and...
Iran has expanded its definition of the Strait of Hormuz into a "vast operational area" far wider than before the Iran war, according to a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary...
Since the start of the war on March 2, L’Orient-Le Jour has published 73 reports, edited 181 photos, and written about 15 editorials that describe the suffering of the victims, document the...
BEIRUT — A Palestinian child has been killed on average every week in the occupied West Bank since January 2025 in attacks by settlers or Israeli soldiers, for a total of 70 during this period, the...
BEIRUT — The written and oral exams for the brevet and baccalaureate have been canceled in several countries in the Near and Middle East, including Lebanon, as well as in Mali "in order to...
Located just a kilometer from the Israeli border, Yaroun, in the Bint Jbeil district, is within the "buffer zone" declared by Israel after the April 17, 2026, cease-fire.While Israel had...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun received the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon, Walid Bukhari, in a farewell visit, during which he awarded him the National Order of the Cedar, rank of Grand Officer, the...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer defied calls to resign on Tuesday, telling ministers he would "get on with governing" despite a "destabilising" 48 hours of growing calls to set out...
A group of farmers from Blida pass the time on a late April Wednesday on the doorstep of what's left of the Sands Beach chalets in Ouzai, near Beirut airport. Hisham lights another cigarette...
Iran executed a member of the Sunni militant group Ansar al-Furqan active in the country's southeastern province of Sistan Baluchestan, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on...
Iranian parliamentary spokesman Ebrahim Rezaei said on Tuesday that the country could enrich uranium up to 90% purity, a level considered weapons-grade, if Iran is attacked again. "One of...
Conflict and violence drove more people to flee within their own countries last year than natural and manmade disasters for the first time on record, monitors said on Tuesday. The Internal...
Last Thursday early in the morning, she woke up to the sound of the school bus horn coming back to pick up children in her street. For weeks, schools had been closed because of the war, and the bus...
The European Union is working on regulations to reign in on social media's business models to protect children and youth, European Commission's President Ursula von der Leyen said on...
00:03 Beirut Time We are now closing our live blog for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 23:03 Beirut Time Hormuz: France to take...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, May 12, 2026 Some key things to watch today:11 a.m.: The administration and justice parliamentary committee is set to discuss...
The United Arab Emirates carried out attacks on Iran early last month, sources told the Wall Street Journal , revealing previously unknown participation in the war by the Gulf country. In an...
Hopes for a peace deal on Iran faded on Tuesday after Donald Trump said a cease-fire with Iran was "on life support" as Tehran rejected a U.S. proposal to end the war and stuck to a list...
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
