A man died Thursday after attacking a synagogue in West Bloomfield, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a large-scale law enforcement operation was underway. While multiple media outlets initially...
Speaking at his first press conference since the start of the regional war — launched alongside the U.S. against the Iran — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel’s...
Iranian state television broadcast on Thursday a first message from the new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has still not appeared in public, in which he promises "revenge" after the...
Meeting Thursday at the Grand Serail for the third time since the war started, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's government made a series of decisions aimed at containing the escalation in Lebanon....
In a new address to the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Lebanon, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that "all of Lebanon is [their] home, and the state is at [their side. "We...
Israel issued an evacuation order Thursday afternoon for a building in Bashoura, central Beirut, amongst a warning of "large-scale" imminent strikes across the capital, including on a...
Samir and Ahmad* have moved their tent to escape the area cordoned off by police and the Lebanese Army. One leans on a railing — now used as a clothesline — overlooking Ramlet al-Baida beach, while...
The war in Lebanon has taken a new turn. Hezbollah announced Wednesday evening that it was entering open war after announcing its new operation. Israel responded swiftly, carrying out what it...
BEIRUT — Israel intensified its war on Lebanon on Thursday, by striking buildings in Bashoura, Zoqaq al-Blat and Nabaa, all in central Beirut, and ordering residents in southern Lebanon to evacuate...
French oil major TotalEnergies will lose 15% of its global production due to shutdowns in the Middle East related to the Iran war, it said on its investor website. The company has shut down, or is...
Oil prices soared Thursday, briefly trading above $100, and stock markets extended losses as fresh attacks against Gulf energy targets offset the release of crude reserves by major economies....
I'm anonymous in my restaurant. Nobody knows that I'm the owner," Andrew Loutfi says with a shy smile. It will take this first interview of his life — "the first one I'm...
After 1978, 1982, 2006, and 2024, what will the upcoming Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon look like? While it took them two weeks to cross the Blue Line after the start of the escalation in...
Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, the war’s repercussions have spread far beyond the front lines in Donbass and Kharkiv. What started as a regional war has reshaped military...
BEIRUT — Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed at least 687 people since March 2, Information Minister Paul Morcos said on Thursday, as Israel threatened to expand its operations and ordered all...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun met Thursday with the ministers of industry and energy to discuss maintaining industrial production and ensuring electricity supply amid the ongoing war, the...
BEIRUT — Israel said Tuesday that it killed "Abuzar Mohammadi, a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps," who was active in Hezbollah's "ballistic missile unit,"...
The European Union does not see any immediate concerns regarding the security of its oil supplies as a result of the Iran war, an EU Commission spokesperson said on Thursday. The EU's top oil...
From behind the counter, Tarek* watches on Wednesday the steady flow of cars. His pharmacy, located along the highway at the northern exit of Beirut, offers a unique vantage point.Open around the...
One was born in 1930, the other in 1939. Yet it is the elder who ultimately outlived the younger. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike on Feb. 28,...
SOUTH LEBANON — An agreement between local traders, authorities, the Lebanese Army and the Mechanism Committee has led to the closure of a Hezbollah-linked Al-Qard al-Hassan branch in Saida. The...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army claimed Thursday that "based on an investigation," a Hezbollah rocket struck a house in Qlaya, a predominantly Christian village in the Marjayoun district. On...
The Israeli military said on Thursday that Hezbollah had fired around 200 rockets at Israel the night before, in what it described as the Lebanese armed group's "biggest barrage"...
Any U.S. aggression against Iranian islands in the Gulf will prompt Tehran to "abandon all restraint", Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on X on Thursday. Several...
The Israeli military has been instructed to expand its operations in Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday, after Hezbollah a heavy barrage of fired rockets at Israel overnight....
Here are the latest economic events in the Middle East war on Wednesday: Container ship hit near UAE The U.K. maritime agency said Thursday that a projectile struck a container ship near the...
Hezbollah is increasing its aggression. A week after joining the regional war on Iran’s side and against Israel — without much success — the militia is now firing its rockets deeper into Israeli...
It's a dead end street in Karm al-Zeitoun, a working-class Christian neighborhood in East Beirut, where three-story buildings are so close that residents can see straight into their...
The situation escalated in recent hours. Following Mojtaba Khamenei's March 8 election as the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic to succeed his father, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
Iran's army said Thursday it had targeted Israeli military bases and the country's security service Shin Bet as the war entered its 13th day. "The Palmachim and Ovda air bases of the...
U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, three...
Oil soared above $100 and stocks sank Thursday as the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran prompted fresh attempts by Tehran to hit supplies in the Middle East overshadowed a record release of...
An Italian military base in Iraqi Kurdistan was hit overnight by an airstrike though no injuries were reported, the Italian defense officials said on Thursday. The defense ministry initially spoke...
A few days ago, Israel announced it had killed nearly 200 Hezbollah fighters since the escalation on March 2. These numbers are hard to verify, as the group rarely shares information about its...
Officials from President Donald Trump's administration estimated during a congressional briefing this week that the first six days of the war on Iran had cost the U.S. at least $11.3 billion, a...
BEIRUT — Wednesday saw a major escalation in Lebanon, with numerous Israeli strikes and the first coordinated attacks by Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The morning began with...
07:04 Beirut Time Israeli drone strike on an apartment in the Nabaa neighborhood of Beirut Israel carried out a drone strike on an apartment in the Nabaa neighborhood of Beirut at...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, March 12, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today: 11 a.m.: Cabinet meeting at the Grand Serail in...
Iranian crude oil has continued to flow through the Strait of Hormuz at a near-normal pace even as Tehran-linked attacks on ships in the narrow waterway have decimated exports from other Gulf...
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
