A fifth Lebanese detained by the Israeli army, the soldier Ziad Shebli, was not released Wednesday as expected, reported L'Orient Today's correspondent in south Lebanon. The United Nations...
The acting commander of the Lebanese army, General Hassan Audi, inspected the command of the first intervention regiment in Tripoli, the largest city in northern Lebanon, on Wednesday, where he...
Foreign Minister Joe Rajji said on Wednesday that "Hezbollah's ostrich policy will not save Lebanon." In an interview with the an-Nahar, he stated, in response to the statements of...
The Minister of Transport and Public Works, Fayez Rassamny, dismissed Fady al-Hassan from his duties as acting director general of Civil Aviation and acting head of Beirut airport, a well-informed...
Four Lebanese civilians abducted at the border by the Israeli army were handed over to Lebanese authorities on Tuesday, in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a "gesture" to...
The World Bank presented a $1 billion project to Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday, including a $250 million loan to finance the initial steps of reconstructing Lebanese regions destroyed by...
The First Lady of Lebanon and president of the National Commission for Lebanese Women's Affairs, Neemat Aoun, participated in the opening of the 69th session of the United Nations Commission on...
While the Israeli government announced Tuesday evening, to general surprise, unprecedented negotiations with Lebanon on the border demarcation between the two countries and the release of...
BEIRUT — Nour Ouayda grew up with subtitles. She recalls going to the cinema as a child and having the bottom third of the screen devoted to double subtitles (Arabic, French, English), with text...
Is the race for the central bank, Banque du Liban (BDL), governorship already decided? Although Finance Minister Yassine Jaber previously announced that the appointment could occur before the end...
The body of a Lebanese woman in her 70s was found stabbed to death Wednesday in her home in Ain Zhalta, in the Chouf district south of Beirut, the National News Agency reported. The Lebanese Red...
TRIPOLI — North Lebanon Gov. Judge Ramzi Nohra chaired a meeting Wednesday in Tripoli with the disaster risk management unit to assess the impact of a recent wave of Syrian refugees arriving in...
"If the attacks on Alawites go unpunished, the Kurds will be next — maybe the Druze too,” said Aras Youssef, who hails from the Kurdish-majority Afrin in northern Syria. "The Kurdish...
The road from Idlib to Latakia is lined with General Security checkpoints, mismatched soldiers on motorcycles or in pickup trucks and the bullet-riddled wreckage of abandoned cars. On Tuesday,...
Lebanese Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rassamny said Wednesday that the government is prioritizing rebuilding infrastructure destroyed during the nearly 13-month war between Hezbollah...
"About two weeks after the confinement started, I had to drop out of college because I could no longer afford to pay my tuition fees. The bank stopped the education loans, while the university...
Lebanese depositor Bassam Hassan Cheikh, who stormed a Federal Bank branch in Hamra on Aug. 11, 2022, to forcibly withdraw $35,000 from his own account, recently won a ruling from the Beirut...
"There is said to be a genie in Beirut that is the very spirit of the city. No one has met him face-to-face, he is like a breath felt on the nape of the neck," Selim Nassib wrote in the...
In an ochre linen dress, fluid and tightened in a cascade of tuxedo pleats at the front, she walked, leaving footprints in the sand dunes with her bare feet. Priestess or pharaoh, Lara Khoury was...
Is Turkey rescuing Hezbollah? This is what was insinuated by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s Feb. 18 statement before an official American delegation. He spoke of “intensified Iranian...
She is said to shape Donald Trump’s American policy towards Israel. That she was behind the American embassy's move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018, a coronation that the president had...
At least 1,383 civilians were killed in massacres on Syria's coast, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Violence in northwest Syria escalated over the weekend between the...
A former Syrian diplomat who defected under the administration of ousted President Bashar al-Assad was shot dead along with his brother in southern Syria, an NGO said Wednesday. Gunmen burst into...
The Kremlin said Wednesday it is waiting for Washington to provide details on its proposal for a 30-day cease-fire, which Ukraine accepted the day before following U.S.-Ukrainian talks in Saudi...
Ahmad al-Sharaa has managed to limit the damage. After the massacre that killed at least 1,000 Alawite civilians in the west of the country by factions close to the new government, the Syrian...
Since March 6, thousands of individuals have illegally crossed the Lebanese-Syrian border into Akkar, northern Lebanon, fleeing massacres in western Syria carried out by fighters aligned with the...
Iran indicated Wednesday that a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump to Iranian leaders will be delivered to Tehran through an Arab country. "The letter has been written but has not yet...
A branch of the al-Kabir River separates Rana and her three children from Lebanon. In a matter of minutes, her family — like dozens of others — crosses the water, escaping Syria four days after...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that the Israeli military is prepared to remain in Syria indefinitely during a visit to Mount Hermon. His remarks, made on the Syrian side of the...
A senior Islamic State (IS) leader who had declared an "IS caliphate in Lebanon" was arrested by army intelligence last December in the country's north, a military source confirmed to L'Orient-Le...
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced Tuesday they will resume attacks on Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden, ending a period of relative...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Catch up on yesterday's live coverage.Wednesday, March 12, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Launch of...
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
