CAIRO— Syria's President Bashar Al Assad arrived in Moscow on Tuesday on his first official visit outside the Middle East since last month's devastating earthquake, according to a statement from...
BEIRUT — Bread prices in Lebanon increased again on Tuesday, after the rate of the Lebanese pound to the dollar crossed the LL100,000 mark on the parallel market, bringing with it an increase in...
BEIRUT — An audit of the state electricity company is among the reforms the World Bank has requested before considering funding Lebanon's worn-down electricity sector, said the bank's...
BEIRUT — Authorities arrested two suspects, a Syrian and a Lebanese national who were wanted for alleged drug trafficking, from the al-Sharawneh neighborhood in Baalbeck, caretaker Interior...
PARIS— France accused Iran on Tuesday of breaking an international treaty defining consular relations between states and said Tehran had demonstrated publicly that it was holding foreign nationals...
BEIRUT — On Tuesday, president of the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers Bechara Asmar relayed a series of demands to caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati. Among the demands was the...
At least five people were killed and 11, amongst them a regional governor, were wounded, in a suicide attack on Tuesday in southern Somalia, police said. The bombing was claimed by Al-Shabaab...
BEIRUT — The president of the union of private school teachers in Lebanon, Nehme Mahfoud, said Tuesday that in some areas, including Saida and Tripoli, the strike launched on Monday was carried...
Amid the bleakest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the public lauded Lebanon’s nurses for their heroic efforts. Then their unwavering commitment to saving lives in the aftermath of the 2020 Beirut...
BEIRUT — Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit met with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and parliament speaker Nabih Berri in Beirut on Monday, the state-run National News Agency...
WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday welcomed the "landmark" deal between Saudi Arabia and the Boeing Co (BA.N) , saying it will support US jobs and marked a milestone in the cooperation...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices increased in Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon for the second time that day, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty...
ISTANBUL — SunExpress, a joint venture between Turkish Airlines (THYAO.IS) and Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) , said on Tuesday that summer bookings to Turkey spiked as of this...
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned Israel on Tuesday it would react to any possible "violations" at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan....
At the Paris meeting on Feb. 6, the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar unanimously agreed to sanction Lebanese officials who are blocking the election of a new president....
BEIRUT — Students, parents and teachers at the Rafik Hariri public school in the Akkar town of Karkaf on Tuesday organized a symbolic sit-in in front of the school, demanding its reopening,...
BEIRUT — The Moutahidoun (United) lawyers' collective on Tuesday called on depositors to "direct their anger" at the houses of bank owners and to spare bank employees and customers. The call...
While many observers feared that the Lebanese investigation into Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Riad Salameh, his brother Raja, and his assistant Marianne Hoyek would impede the European...
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement MP Nicholas Sehnaoui on Tuesday said that the Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai "supports the idea" of a proposed law to divide the municipality of Beirut in two,...
Without stability, there can be no development or prosperity. This is, in essence, what the March 10 normalization agreement signed between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Beijing indicates. “The...
The Lebanese crisis and the political class’s inaction in the face of the crippling challenges the country is facing has eliminated the increasingly cautious optimism of the Institute of...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira on Tuesday hit an all-time low on the parallel market, trading at LL100,000 to the US dollar as it continued its latest free fall more than three years into an...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices increased in Lebanon on Tuesday morning, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. This latest increase comes as the Lebanese lira continues to...
Israel's parliament took another step Tuesday to push forward a legal reform package that has sparked mass protests against the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
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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
