BEIRUT — Two of the six people detained on suspicion of their involvement in the murder of Lebanese Forces official Pascal Sleiman were questioned by the First Investigating Judge of Mount Lebanon...
BEIRUT — Member of Parliament Faisal Karami, received Russia's ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Rudakov, on Tuesday at al-Madina University in Tripoli, with the agenda of addressing the situation...
BEIRUT — The Families of the Victims of the Beirut Port Explosion Association and the "Silos and the City" campaign submitted a letter to the Director of the Middle East Region at the World Bank,...
BEIRUT — Members of Parliament Paula Yacoubian and Charbel Massaad submitted on Tuesday an appeal to the Constitutional Council against the extension law for the terms of office for municipal...
“I speak to you from beyond the grave,” said Youssef Hassan. Sitting in a modestly furnished apartment in the working-class neighborhood of al-Haykestep, north of Cairo, the young man recounted the...
As Israel announced on March 11, 2025, the creation of "three joint working groups" with Lebanon — focusing on five recently Israeli occupied points, the Blue Line and remaining disputed areas —...
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that Israel had repeatedly targeted known aid worker locations in Gaza, even after their coordinates were provided to Israeli authorities to ensure their protection....
Israeli police said they have opened an investigation after right-wing activists stopped and ransacked at least seven Gaza-bound humanitarian aid trucks, in a statement received Tuesday....
BEIRUT – 216 staff members at the American University of Beirut signed a petition on Sunday stating that they revoke their support for the honorary doctorate granted to Columbia University's...
Humanitarian aid has been unable to reach Gaza since May 9 when Israel launched incursions into its far-southern city of Rafah and closed aid crossings, Qatar's foreign ministry said Tuesday....
The top UN court said it would hold hearings Thursday and Friday over South Africa's request to impose emergency orders on Israel to halt its Rafah offensive. The...
The Lebanese Civil Defense announced on Tuesday that it had recovered the body of a beachgoer off the coast of Jbeil who had been missing since Sunday. “Members of the Civil Defense maritime...
Turkish authorities said Tuesday they arrested 544 people suspected of links to preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses of being behind an attempted coup in 2016....
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday that nearly 450,000 people have been displaced from Rafah since Israel began issuing evacuation orders for the south Gaza city eight days ago....
The United Nations said Tuesday that it had informed the Israeli authorities of the movements of a vehicle carrying UN staff which was hit in southern Gaza, killing an Indian. One UN security...
The Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) condemned Monday's armed attack on the director of its office in the Karakol al-Druze area of Beirut and two other people while calling on the security...
Israel's military operation in Rafah has set truce negotiations with Hamas "backward," mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, adding that talks have reached "almost a stalemate."...
Around 200 Syrian refugees left Lebanon on Tuesday morning, bound for Syria via the village of Wadi Hmayyed, in Arsal (Baalbeck), aboard a “voluntary return” convoy organized by General Security in...
BEIRUT – The TikTok pedophile ring , involving nearly 30 individuals responsible for luring around 30 children through the app for sexual abuse, filming, and blackmail, which shook Lebanese...
The health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 35,173 people have been killed in the territory during more than seven months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants....
An army officer and four soldiers were killed in an attack on their post in Iraq's central province of Salaheddin on Monday, officials said. Iraq's Ministry of...
The United States on Monday voiced concern and called on Israel to investigate after a CNN report of Palestinian prisoners being blindfolded, beaten and put in diapers. The US-based network said...
The United States does not believe that genocide is occurring in Gaza but Israel must do more to protect Palestinian civilians, President Joe Biden's top national security official said Monday....
A UN security services member was killed in an attack on a vehicle in Gaza on Monday, a spokesperson said, adding the death was the first international UN employee killed in the Palestinian...
A migrant smuggler known as "Scorpion," wanted in several European countries, has been arrested in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, local authorities said Monday, after a BBC investigation...
On May 13, the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Mechaal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, approved a new government, the ninth in four years and the second since his inauguration in December, against a backdrop of...
Things are moving again in the search for a compromise to be implemented after the end of the war in southern Lebanon. From the Group of Five nations, consisting of the United States, France, Saudi...
22:28 Beirut Time That's it for today's live news updates from the war on Gaza and its repercussions in Lebanon, the region, and the world. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow...
BEIRUT — “Israel has only two choices: continue or stop. In both cases, it has lost.” Speaking on Monday, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah loudly proclaimed the victory of Hamas, and...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 220 of the Gaza war here . Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Israel’s...
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
