Joseph Aoun: Our only weapons are our unity and Army
The Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, commemorated Saturday evening the 50th anniversary of the start of the civil war in Lebanon, calling for "dialogue" as the sole recourse to resolve...
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Samy Gemayel urges Hezbollah to 'voluntarily surrender its weapons'
The leader of the Kataeb party, Samy Gemayel, urged Hezbollah on Saturday, during a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, "to voluntarily surrender...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
Enforcement of law liberalizing commercial rents divides owners and tenants
In the wake of the enforcement on April 3 of the law liberalizing commercial rents for leases signed before 1992, tenant protests occurred in Saida in the South, Tripoli in the North and in the...
Nemtala EDDÉ, 12 April 2025
With Serge Blosh and Shaker Bou Abdalla, laughing to stay calm
Command, plea or will, this title displayed in capital letters at the entrance of the exhibition, "Leave us in peace!" invites a visual and satirical reflection on universal themes: love,...
Clara BUSIN, 12 April 2025
From scapegoat, to brotherhood, to ghetto: The story of Palestinians in Lebanon
As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visits Lebanon to discuss disarming the Palestinian refugee camps, we invite you to reread this article, originally published on April 10,...
Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 12 April 2025
1991 General Amnesty: How Lebanon condemned itself to hypermnesia
We must not hold them accountable 30 years later. Post-war Lebanon had no other choice. It was 1990, and the streets were devoid of police. For several years, the curtains of police stations were...
Julia Mokdad, 12 April 2025
Worker killed by falling rock in Akkar
A worker in his fifties and a native of Tekrit in Akkar, Mohammad Darwish, succumbed to his injuries after being struck by a falling rock while working on a construction site in the village....
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
Syrian forces deploy at key dam under deal with Kurds
Security forces from the new Islamist government in Damascus deployed Saturday around a strategic dam in northern Syria, under a deal with the autonomous Kurdish administration, state media...
12 April 2025
Hezbollah logistics support network dismantled in Europe, according to Le Figaro
A logistics support network for Hezbollah involving Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom was dismantled between the summer of 2024 and last week, reported Le Figaro. According to the...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
Fawwaz Traboulsi: ‘We don’t write history to unify a people’
How does one pass on the lessons of a conflict to a generation that did not live through it when, in the absence of political consensus, no school textbook mentions those 15 years during which a...
Interview conducted by Cyrille NÊME, 12 April 2025
55 tons of fruits seized by customs
The customs directorate seized, at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture and in coordination with the Ministry of Economy, 55 tons of apples and pears that entered Lebanon illegally over a...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
The cinematic trial of April 13, 1975
Artistic blurImage featured in the film Pas à Pas by Randa Shahal Sabbag, which is a photo montage. Considered the spark that ignited the Civil War, the attack on the Ain al-Rummaneh bus on April...
Lola MAUPAS, 12 April 2025
Bulgaria attack suspects buried in Hezbollah cemetery, says AP
The Franco-Lebanese perpetrator of the suicide bombing that killed five Israeli tourists in 2012 in Bulgaria was buried in a cemetery reserved for Hezbollah fighters in the southern suburbs of...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
What's behind the demilitarization of Palestinian refugee camps?
April 13, 1975... As Lebanon marks 50 years since the outbreak of its 15-year Civil War, brewing behind the scenes since the Cairo Agreement of 1969, questions remain over whether the issues that...
Scarlett HADDAD, 12 April 2025
Education Minister orders minute of silence in schools Monday for civil war anniversary
On the occasion of the 50th commemoration of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), which started on April 13, Education Minister Rima Karameh ordered schools, technical institutes and universities to...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
Behind Samir Geagea's criticism of Aoun
Suddenly, Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea changed his tone. Three months after helping elect President Joseph Aoun, Geagea has seized every opportunity to criticize the new administration,...
Yara ABI AKL, 12 April 2025
Lebanese army continues operation to close entrances to Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp
The Lebanese army launched the second phase of its operation to close several official and unofficial entrances to the Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp, near Tripoli, in North Lebanon, by blocking...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
Higher Shiite Council denounces 'slander' and threatens legal action over money confiscated at Beirut airport
The Higher Shiite Council denounced, on Saturday, the "national silence" in the face of the "lies and slander" directed at it, after a significant sum of $2.5 million in cash,...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
Most Hezbollah military sites ceded to army in south Lebanon
Most military sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon have been placed under Lebanese army control, a source close to the group said on Saturday. A Nov. 27 cease-fire that ended more than...
12 April 2025
The Civil War in numbers
Like memory, numbers blur over the yearsHow does one count war deaths, for instance?In a study of Civil War era deaths spanning 1975 to 1990, the Lebanon Renaissance Foundation concluded that the...
Jaimee Lee Haddad, 12 April 2025
Governor Abboud orders Beirut gas stations to settle their legal status within a month
Beirut's governor, the executive authority of the municipality, Marwan Abboud, on Saturday ordered the capital's gas stations to settle their legal status within a month or face being...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
What are the possible terms of a Tehran-Washington deal?
For the first time in 10 years, Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy for the Middle East, is set to meet Saturday with Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, in Oman for...
Tatiana KROTOFF, 12 April 2025
Hariri calls to 'overcome the militia mindset to build a state' 50 years after civil war
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), which falls on April 13, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri in a statement called on the country to...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
Cabinet adopts draft law on reform of banking sector
The Cabinet, which met on Saturday at the Grand Serail under the chairmanship of Nawaf Salam from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., adopted the draft law on banking restructuring after three meetings devoted to...
L'Orient Today staff, 12 April 2025
Israel to expand offensive 'in most' of Gaza Strip | Live
19:30 Beirut Time Thank you for joining us for our live coverage today. Be sure to come back tomorrow for the latest updates. Goodnight! 19:23 Beirut Time...
Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah Abdallah & Nicholas Frakes, 12 April 2025
US, Iran hold 'constructive' nuclear talks in Oman
The United States and Iran held "constructive" talks on Tehran's nuclear program on Saturday and agreed to meet again as President Donald Trump threatens military action if they fail...
12 April 2025
Iraqi markets a haven for pedlars escaping Iran's economic woes
Every Friday, Alawi crosses the border from Iran into Iraq to sell his produce in the markets of Basra, which serve as a haven for Iranians grappling with economic sanctions. He is just one of...
12 April 2025
The post-Taif generation doesn’t want to hear about the war
Daniella Abou Haidar, 26, says from her home in Sarba (Kesrouan) that she “knows nothing about the Civil War,” and would not have asked her family for details had she not been asked the question...
Marguerita Sejaan, 12 April 2025
Turkey accuses Israel of seeking to 'dynamite' Syria 'revolution'
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Friday of sowing divisions in Syria in a bid to "dynamite" the "revolution" that toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad....
12 April 2025
Israel says intercepts drone claimed by Houthis
Israel's military said Friday it had intercepted an incoming UAV while a military source in Jordan said another drone had crashed there, as Iran-backed Houthis claimed the attacks. "A...
12 April 2025
Faced with disarmament demands, Hezbollah plays its political card
The Taif Accord — here it is in abundance. Since President Joseph Aoun’s election, followed by the formation of a reformist government led by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, the issue of consolidating...
