The days of beautiful weather are back, along with the temptation to swim in the sea. Although perseverance is often needed to find a beach that is suitable for swimming along some parts of the...
A Lebanese judge will lift a travel ban imposed on the country's embattled central bank chief, who has been summoned for a hearing in Paris next month, two judicial officials said Wednesday....
GENEVA — The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency on Wednesday called on the West Bank local staff union to end a strike, saying the stoppage was hindering access for hundreds of thousands of...
WASHINGTON — The US military conducted a helicopter raid in eastern Syria late on Saturday and captured an Islamic State operative and two of his associates, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said...
BEIRUT — “The museum is still in crisis mode,” says Karina El Helou, director of Nicolas Sursock Museum . “Everyone here has been in this crisis mode for the last four years.” After over two...
Mount Lebanon investigating judge Ziad Daghidi ordered the release of the director general of the road traffic department, Hoda Salloum, on Wednesday, along with five other vehicle registration...
Syria's foreign minister arrived in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, a Saudi statement said, on the first such trip since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011. Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad flew...
As we enter the fourth week of Ramadan, fattoush prices appear brutally high but stable. On March 21, we predicted that the average price for a bowl of fattoush at the start of Ramadan on March 22...
RIYADH — Iran's embassy in Saudi Arabia reopened its gates on Wednesday for the first time in seven years, a Reuters witness said, under a deal to re-establish ties that could ease a long-standing...
January to March 2023 was the deadliest first quarter for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean since 2017, the United Nations said Wednesday, with 441 lives lost attempting to reach Europe....
BEIRUT — "It has become nearly impossible" for Lebanon to hold upcoming municipal elections scheduled to start May 7, Deputy Parliament Speaker Elias Bou Saab said Wednesday at a joint Parliament...
BEIRUT — Lebanese police said Wednesday they had arrested four men in late March for suspected armed robbery on the highway near Beirut International Airport. The four men, who allegedly stole...
BEIRUT — Speaking at their monthly meeting in Bkirki, Maronite bishops on Wednesday condemned what they said were “attempts aimed at turning the South [into a territory for] exchanging messages,”...
Syria will reopen its diplomatic mission in Tunisia and appoint an ambassador there, Damascus and Tunis said in a joint statement Wednesday after more than a decade of strained ties....
The Greek Orthodox Church on Wednesday slammed Israel's "heavy-handed restrictions" on its upcoming Easter celebrations in Jerusalem, urging Christians to attend in spite of police curbs....
A week after the revelation that a memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Public Works and an Irish company for the construction of the second terminal at Beirut airport did not go...
Saudi Arabia hosted landmark delegations from Iran and Syria on Wednesday as Gulf countries prepare for re-establishing diplomatic ties after years of bitter divisions. Only hours after Iranian...
BEIRUT —Members of the Lebanese Civil Defense extinguished a fire that broke out Wednesday in stalls and shops in Tripoli's Souk al-Ahad market, L'Orient Today's correspondent in northern...
Before the 2019 crisis, the currency with which one chose to pay did not matter much to the Lebanese. The exchange rate, set at LL1,500 to the dollar, was known to all. Daily transactions were...
BEIRUT — The Halba Judicial Police in Akkar governorate seized about 120,000 pills of the amphetamine Captagon on Wednesday from a house under construction, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) said...
BEIRUT — Électricité du Liban (EDL) employees across Lebanon suspended a strike Wednesday that was intended to last one week, after meeting with caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil, employee...
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil expressed refusal Tuesday "to have anyone come and use our territory to send messages," speaking at an interfaith iftar in Jbeil days...
After an Israeli police raid on the Al-Aqsa mosque worshippers last Wednesday, the following days saw rocket exchanges between Gaza , southern Lebanon , Syria and Israel. On Friday,...
AMMAN — Iran has used earthquake relief flights to bring weapons and military equipment into its strategic ally Syria, nine Syrian, Iranian, Israeli and Western sources said....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The Lebanese army announced the arrest of an alleged bomb-maker thought to have ties to a man suspected of being an Israeli spy...
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
