Argentinian President Javier Milei, a staunch supporter of Israel, has used the $1 million prize money granted to him by the Genesis Prize Foundation to launch an nonprofit organization aimed at...
BEIRUT — An Israeli drone bombed a car as it was driving between the villages of Haris and Hadatha in southern Lebanon's Bint Jbeil district on Wednesday, launching two missiles at the vehicle...
South Sudan is not in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians from war-torn Gaza, South Sudan's foreign ministry said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Associated Press, citing...
BEIRUT — Cabinet announced that private generator owners in Lebanon who don't comply with current laws and tariffs and fail to install meters within 45 days could face legal action, following a...
TRIPOLI — A major fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the Jourit al-Shair area of the Qobeiyat hills in northern Lebanon's Akkar district, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the North...
A few years ago, an Iranian MP boasted that his country controlled four Arab capitals: Sanaa, Damascus, Baghdad and Beirut. Today, however, Tehran — recovering from a 12-Day War with Israel — finds...
BEIRUT — Kuwait is providing Lebanon with a grant worth $1.5 million to finance studies on the potential construction of new grain storage silos at Beirut's Port, which was ravaged by a massive...
In a country battered by crises, from the economic collapse ongoing since 2019 to the absence of a functioning state, even life’s most basic needs are hard to secure. In Lebanon, many people,...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun received a proposal on Wednesday from a delegation of the “My Nationality is My Right and My Family's Right” campaign for a law granting Lebanese women who are...
A U.N. Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldier stands at the entrance of the Shamaa base in the Sour district on a July afternoon. In front of his men, he points to the route on a map. Moments...
After RHIA experienced a power outage lasting several hours, likely caused by the ongoing heat wave affecting Lebanon, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation announced Wednesday that Public...
Turkey's foreign minister and his Syrian counterpart on Wednesday warned Israel not to stir up chaos in Syria and demanded an end to all external interventions aimed at destabilising the...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia on Tuesday that he has serious concerns about certain patterns of sexual violence carried out by their armed and security...
BEIRUT — A group of people intercepted a UNIFIL patrol in Sour district's Mahrouna village and prevented it from entering the village's orchards because "it was not accompanied by a...
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had approved the framework for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas condemned what it called "aggressive" Israeli ground incursions in...
Britain, France and Germany have told the United Nations they are ready to reimpose U.N.-mandated sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme if no diplomatic solution is found by the end of...
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Wednesday the arrest, at an unspecified date, of two Nigerian nationals who smuggled 156 capsules (3.4 kg) of pure cocaine into Lebanon at the end of...
BEIRUT — Israel is in discussions with South Sudan over the possible relocation of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, part of a broader effort to facilitate mass emigration from the territory...
BEIRUT — After the Rafik Hariri International Airport (RHIA) experienced hours of electricity outage probably caused by the current heatwave affecting Lebanon, the Directorate General of Civil...
Since the beginning of the latest round of sectarian clashes in the predominantly Druze province Sweida in southern Syria, in July, the two main Druze leaders in Lebanon, Walid Joumblatt and his...
The Metn MP, Ibrahim Kanaan, stressed Wednesday in a letter addressed to the government that “it is impossible, according to all official reports, to expand the government landfill in Jdeideh,”...
The former director general of the Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Office, Jean Gebran, who was dismissed from his position last week, spoke out on Wednesday in a statement about his sidelining the...
A soldier from the Syrian government was killed in clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo province, several media reported on Tuesday citing the state-run Syrian Arab...
Two days after the tragedy that occurred on Sunday, during which Hussein Afif Hassoun, a 23-year-old Lebanese native of Kfar Hatta in southern Lebanon and resident of Dearborn, Michigan, in the...
The Israeli military said Wednesday it had approved the "framework" for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, days after the security cabinet called for the seizure of Gaza City. Armed...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and President Joseph Aoun, in their respective meetings on Wednesday with visiting Iranian official Ali Larijani, pushed back against Iranian interference on the...
BEIRUT — In remarks published by An-Nahar on Wednesday, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri downplayed the uproar over the visit of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary, Ali Larijani, to...
Although, his absence from successive Cabinet sessions that endorsed the principle of the state’s monopoly on arms drew considerable attention, his statement on Sunday drew even more.In a speech in...
At just 18, Georges Eter is a poet, athlete, and musician — winner of the Grand Prize for prose poetry from the Société des Poètes Français and top of his class in the French science baccalaureate...
In Jan. 2013, an exhibition at Berlin's Kennedy Museum showcasing part of Jackie Kennedy's wardrobe explored clothing as a political message. An entire room was dedicated to “The spirit of...
New Zealand's prime minister said Wednesday that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu had "lost the plot", accusing him of going too far in his efforts to wage war on Gaza....
The exceptional heatwave suffocating Lebanon since last Friday is not expected to subside until "this Friday afternoon," according to Marc Wehaibeh, director of the Lebanese meteorological service...
First, there’s the white plastic bag that Mahmoud* unzips with a precise, almost jaded motion. Then a body appears beneath this modest shroud. Rigid. Riddled with bullets. An anonymous person, a...
22:42 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage for the evening. Thanks for joining us and we'll be back tomorrow morning with more news updates and analysis. Goodnight....
At the end of a meeting of the Free Patriotic Movement's (FPM) parliamentary group at its headquarters in Mirna Chalouhi, the party's leader Gebran Bassil stated that the deterrent function...
BEIRUT — Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, is expected in Beirut on Wednesday. Before leaving for Iraq — where he began his regional tour — he spoke of...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council 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
