Switzerland said Saturday that talks between the United States and Iran will resume in Geneva next week, as Washington presses Tehran to reach an agreement aimed in particular at curbing its...
Narges Mohammadi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate detained since December, was transferred to a prison in northern Iran without prior warning, her husband said Saturday, as her family voiced concern...
Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Taymour Jumblatt said Saturday that ‘’there is no alternative to the state, which alone protects us,’’ marking the 42nd anniversary of the battles in the...
Some heritage sites disappear without a sound. They fade away under the effects of urbanization, neglect or deliberate destruction. The latter are sometimes part of an intentional strategy of...
Every year, during the fasting period of Ramadan, the Lebanese experience the anxiety of seeing merchants raise prices, often justifying it — rightly or wrongly — by the dynamics of supply and...
On Jan. 11, Donald Trump said he could make the internet work and would call Elon Musk, praising his expertise, just days after Iran imposed a nationwide shutdown in response to mass protests that...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held a series of diplomatic meetings on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference after arriving in Germany on Friday, calling for increased support for the...
A third Lebanese Forces (LF) lawmaker, Fadi Karam, announced Saturday that he will not run in the upcoming legislative elections scheduled for May, following in the footsteps of fellow party MPs...
From a small studio in the central city of Deir el-Balah, Sylvia Hassan's voice echoes across the Gaza Strip, broadcast on one of the Palestinian territory's first radio stations to hit the...
Bahrain and Egypt are seeking to ease tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two sources told AFP , after disagreements between the Gulf heavyweights surfaced publicly in...
The exiled son of Iran’s former shah, Reza Pahlavi, on Saturday called on Donald Trump to “help” the Iranian people, saying “it is time to end the Islamic Republic.” “The Iranian people have heard...
“The extermination” of the Palestinian people “must stop,” the chair of the African Union Commission, Djibouti’s Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, said Saturday at the opening of the continental body’s 39th...
For decades under the Assad regime, the Damascus International Book Fair served as a showcase for ubiquitous political propaganda. The fair was dedicated to glorifying the regime, with censored...
"Liars, paupers and drug addicts." Seated in his office, Moustafa al-Issa, director of Raqqa’s reconciliation center, points through the window at a line of figures huddled in brown...
This year, the commemoration of Rafik Hariri's assassination is expected to be different. Around the Maison du Centre, security measures — largely relaxed in recent years — have already been...
19:03 Beirut Time Switzerland confirms resumption of U.S.–Iran talks next week in Geneva Switzerland announced that talks between the United States and Iran will resume in Geneva next...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called for the removal of what he described as Israeli obstacles to implementing the second phase of the Gaza cease-fire, in remarks broadcast at the...
A Lebanese Forces (LF) delegation in Syria. Ten years ago, the scene would have seemed unthinkable. But ever since the fall of the Assad regime (on Dec. 8, 2024), opening channels of communication...
During his remarks on the second day of the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the United Nations had played "practically no role" in...
On Friday Dec. 19, 2025, the Migrant Community Centre (MCC) was transformed into a high-end modernist runway, and the excitement was tangible. The warm smell of frying plantains and Cameroonian...
18:19 Beirut Time Jumblatt received by Saad Hariri Received by Saad Hariri at the Center House, former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said that “the Taif Agreement...
The U.S. government announced Friday that it will end the protected status granted to exiles from Yemen, a program that has been in place for ten years. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem...
I’ve been counting down to Valentine’s Day because I'm going to see Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” tonight. It's not (entirely) about Jacob Ridiculously Attractive Elordi as...
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
