Keeping pace with the Islamabad negotiations, and depending on the potential outcomes of the Beijing summit, direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel began Thursday in the United States. Both...
Dozens of ships set sail from southwestern Turkey as part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on Thursday, an organizer told AFP . "Around 50 ships sailed from Marmaris around an hour ago,"...
Diplomats contacted by the Financial Times (FT) have revealed that Saudi Arabia is considering a non-aggression pact between Middle Eastern states and Iran as part of discussions with its allies...
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar is the chairperson of the Department of Economics at the Lebanese American University.Lebanon’s exchange rate stabilization at around LL90,000 per U.S. dollar has generated...
The Culture Ministry officially relaunched Cinémathèque Libanaise (Lebanese Cinematheque) on Thursday afternoon, aiming to preserve the country’s cinematic memory. Supported by Centre national du...
A delegation from the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) visited the Baabda Presidential Palace on Thursday to urge President Joseph Aoun on “the need for cooperation between the Association,...
The head of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), Admiral Brad Cooper, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are now "cut off from Iranian arms...
Israeli and Lebanese representatives met Thursday in Washington for a first session of direct negotiations, under U.S. mediation, just days before the extension of the cease-fire in place since...
Just hours before talks between Lebanon and Israel were set to begin in Washington under U.S. mediation, the Israeli army on Thursday morning issued a sweeping forced evacuation order to residents...
Israeli authorities will take The New York Times to court over a piece it published denouncing widespread sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Thursday it arrested the man accused of attacking Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) MP Hadi Abu al-Hosn during a funeral in the Mount Lebanon...
The narrative of Lebanese resilience has been drilled into our heads since birth. I’ve heard it through successive presidents, political leaders, marketing teams behind the ads on the highway, and...
Elected a few months earlier to chair No. 6, succeeding journalist Cícero Sandroni, Milton Hatoum is the first writer, columnist, translator and essayist from Amazonas to join, last April, the...
Entitled "And Still We Rise: Students in Service, Education in Action," the third edition of the GE Forum highlighted the volunteer activities of USEK students, carried out as part of the...
BEIRUT — Raed Tarabay has been in business for nearly 20 years. He runs Helena Touch, a family-owned beauty store, center, and salon in Jbeil, which today employs around 45 people. The business...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Thursday they had carried out a major anti-narcotics operation that led, on April 24, to the seizure of nearly two million captagon pills from a...
Razan El Helou is a PhD researcher on peace education, storytelling, and politics.“... there are ‘lives’ that are not quite — or, indeed, are never — recognized as lives...”Judith Butler,...
BEIRUT — Foreign Minister Joe Rajji said that in the negotiations with Israel whose first session begins today in Washington Beirut is « not speaking at this stage about a peace agreement. »...
BEIRUT — An estimated 770,000 children are experiencing "heightened distress from repeated exposure to violence, loss and displacement,” UNICEF said in a statement Thursday. “Children and...
India condemned an attack that sank an Indian-flagged vessel transiting through Omani waters as "unacceptable" on Thursday and said targeting of commercial ships should be avoided amid...
BEIRUT — Ahmad Rami al-Hajj, the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, was sworn in on Thursday before the head of state, Joseph Aoun, in the presence of Justice Minister Adel Nassar and the...
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement is due on Thursday to elect a new central committee for the first time in 10 years, as it faces existential challenges in the wake of the...
From her home in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Anna Sloutskin yearns to expand her country's borders and one day move to southern Lebanon. And she is not alone. With...
For weeks now, a draft General Amnesty law has been fueling controversy inside Parliament and beyond.What should ostensibly be a strictly legal debate quickly turned sectarian.During parliamentary...
Iran's foreign minister accused the United Arab Emirates of direct involvement in military operations against his country during a BRICS meeting in New Delhi on Thursday, the Iranian...
The Vatican no longer seems willing to limit itself to the provision of humanitarian aid to Lebanon. It may well step up its efforts with the United States to press for a halt to Israel’s war and...
At first, the organizers had planned to stage a world hummus championship. But faced with the relentless violence in southern Lebanon, they changed course.As the destruction of entire villages...
BEIRUT — Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny said Thursday that “Beirut airport will not stop operating, regardless of the circumstances,” adding that “coordination is ongoing with...
The gap remains wide in the U.S.-Iran negotiations. It is just as wide between Israeli demands and Lebanese conditions.In both cases, Israel is trying to convince Washington to resume the war...
BEIRUT — Israeli news agency Wallah alleges that Hezbollah “has developed an action plan to occupy Beirut in order to push back pragmatic forces seeking rapprochement with Israel,” in a dispatch...
Sometimes, our memories are too much to carry. We hide them in the hunch of our backs and the clench in our jaws because we can't figure out how to let them pass through. But how else can we...
Several Israeli civilians were injured and evacuated to hospital for treatment after an explosive drone launched by Hezbollah fell within Israeli territory near the Israel-Lebanon border, the...
Caution still governs relations between Lebanon and Syria, sixteen months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Yet the regional war has made rapprochement between these neighboring countries with a...
He welcomes us into his cozy living room where two cats roam lazily around, royally ignoring the latest Al Jazeera alerts. This resident of the Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem,...
Russia unleashed the largest aerial attack on Ukraine over a two-day period since the war began, pounding the capital Kyiv and other cities across the country with hundreds of drones, Ukrainian...
A ship off the UAE coast near the Strait of Hormuz has been taken by unknown people and is now headed towards Iranian waters, a UK maritime agency said on Thursday. The vessel was "taken by...
BEIRUT — Just hours before the start of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Thursday that if the talks do not produce in a "real cease-fire,...
21:45 Beirut Time Israeli artillery fire in several southern villages Israeli artillery bombardments targeted Touline (Marjayoun), the area around Qana, the area between Jabal al-Botm...
After months under a near-total internet blackout during the Middle East war, Iranian tech worker Amir-Hassan was finally able to get back online, but only through a privileged service that has...
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a "good" meeting on Thursday in which they agreed that the Strait of Hormuz "must remain open," the White...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, May 14 2026 Some key things to watch today:Lebanese and Israeli delegations to hold first meeting today in WashingtonTrump...
Shortly before the outbreak of war between the United States and Iran in late February, a Qatari private jet landed in Damascus with a clear message from the Gulf monarchies to Syrian President...
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
