BEIRUT — Druze leader Walid Joumblatt on Monday, following a meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, reaffirmed his attachment "to the current entities" after U.S. envoy Tom Barrack...
Paramilitaries from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 48 civilians during an attack on a village in central Sudan, a pro-democracy group announced Monday. Emergency Lawyers, an organization...
Two drones loaded with explosives targeted an oil field Monday in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdish security forces announced. "At 8:20 p.m. and 8:25 p.m. [5:20 p.m. and 5:25...
Negotiations are underway between Syrian authorities and Druze representatives in southern Syria to reach a halt to fighting that has left about a hundred dead, one of the main Druze armed groups...
BEIRUT — During the annual Bastille Day ceremony at the Résidence des Pins on Monday, French Ambassador to Beirut Hervé Magro praised the efforts of Lebanese authorities to establish a monopoly on...
Egyptian academic Laila Soueif has ended a 10-month hunger strike protesting the ongoing imprisonment of her son, activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, her family said on Monday. Soueif, 69, began the...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Cabinet decided during its Friday session to step up health and environmental inspections at farms and slaughterhouses near Beirut airport, Choueifat and surrounding areas,...
BEIRUT — Lebanon has received, through the U.S. Embassy, feedback regarding the response it sent to American envoy Tom Barrack on the disarmament of Hezbollah, according to information obtained by...
BEIRUT — The general strike launched by the League of Public Administration Employees, joined by the Committees of Judicial Assistants, was not unanimously observed across Lebanon on Monday,...
Lebanese Finance Minister Yassine Jaber announced Monday that "work is underway for the installation of scanners, two at the port of Beirut and one at the port of Tripoli" (North...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told Russia to resolve its Ukraine war within 50 days or face massive new economic sanctions as he laid out plans for new infusions of weaponry for Kyiv....
A Tesla Cybertruck passes the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse as jury selection began in connection with allegations regarding the safety of Tesla’s autopilot system on July 14, 2025 in...
Iran will not take part in talks with the United States over its nuclear programme if Washington insists Tehran abandon uranium enrichment, an adviser to the Islamic republic's supreme leader...
The Banque du Liban (BDL) announced Monday the signing of a cooperation agreement with K2 Integrity, an American risk and compliance consulting firm specializing in financial crime. This move is...
BEIRUT — A few weeks ago, pollution concerns arose at Janaa Lake in South Lebanon’s Shebaa area after red water and dead fish were found. People suspect the pollution came either from chemicals...
Iran said Monday that it does not rule out meeting with the United States for talks on its nuclear program, which were interrupted in June by an attack from Israel, but asserted that "no...
Three farming villages in southeastern Sudan, located near the border with Ethiopia, were attacked and looted Sunday by Ethiopian militias, local farmers and volunteers reported Monday. The...
BEIRUT — Kuwaiti Interior Minister Sheikh Fahd Youssef Saoud al-Sabah assured President Joseph Aoun of his country's support for Lebanon during an official visit to Beirut on Monday. "I...
BEIRUT — Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed toured Nabatieh, the capital of the southern Lebanese governorate of the same name, on Monday, to meet with municipal and governorate officials and...
U.S. President Donald Trump was reportedly expected to lay out Monday a fresh strategy for arming Ukraine as his special envoy arrived in Kyiv after weeks of the U.S. president's growing...
The European Commission said on Monday that special conditions set by Rome on Italian bank UniCredit's takeover bid for its smaller rival Banco BPM may be in breach of EU rules. UniCredit,...
Major stock markets slipped but without panic on Monday as investors digested U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs threat to hit the EU and Mexico with 30-percent levies. Analysts said...
BEIRUT — A security source confirmed to L'Orient Today that a brief riot broke out Monday at the Amioun prison in the Koura district of North Lebanon, with two Internal Security Forces members...
“I was like a lost bird that suddenly finds its nest again,” George Sabra says with a breath. Relatives, acquaintances, even strangers came out to greet him that day. “A real festival,” he jokes....
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun asserted Monday from the Baabda Palace that "the unity of Lebanese territory is a national constant," thereby implicitly responding to recent statements...
BEIRUT — MP Samy Gemayel, leader of the Kataeb Party filed a legal complaint Monday against a Shiite cleric from the Bekaa Valley with close ties to Hezbollah, Faisal Shukur, who, about a week...
BEIRUT — During a visit to Brussels, Lebanese Foreign Minister Joe Rajji met Monday with European Commission Vice President Kaja Kallas, to whom he requested "the European Union's help to...
Top Israeli and Palestinian diplomats were due at a meeting in Brussels between the EU and its southern neighbours on Monday, but the Palestinian Authority denied claims that the two would meet....
Pasta, soups, chocolates, alcoholic beverages — Lebanese pantries and fridges are now filled with locally made products. While “Made in Lebanon” goods once made up just 15 to 20 percent of...
On Sunday, Iranian Fars news agency released a report claiming Israel orchestrated an alleged assassination attempt against Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian last month. On June 16, a...
BEKAA — Lebanese Education Minister Rima Karameh began a tour Monday of official exam centers in the Bekaa, starting with two in Bednayel, an area hit by Israeli strikes during the recent conflict...
Throughout the week leading up to U.S. President Donald Trump's 30 percent-tariff threat on the EU, European officials and diplomats insisted they were closing in on a deal — right up until his...
The latest report by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the implementation of Resolution 1701 (2006) provides a comprehensive assessment of the resolution’s implementation,...
For five years, Rani Zakhem made careful, almost secretive progress on an object he had carried within him all his life. Five years of patient work with precious materials, administrative steps,...
Even after clarifying his remarks, the damage was done. U.S. envoy Tom Barrack dropped a small bombshell on Friday during a press briefing, saying, “If Lebanon doesn’t move, it is going to be to...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced on Monday that it had dismantled a major Captagon manufacturing facility in Baalbeck district's Yammouneh village, in the Bekaa, describing the vast complex...
BEIRUT — The Jeita Grotto, an iconic natural landmark in Lebanon that has been closed since November 2024, will reopen to visitors on July 15, the Tourism Ministry and the Jeita Municipality...
Since June 1, a new player has set up shop in Monnot, in the former Goûtons Voir location. Pincette, a lobster bar, is the first F&B project by Mohammad Fneish, a former Muay Thai champion...
The medical technology and robotics startup Adstrum won the sixth edition of the ESA-HEC entrepreneurship competition Friday. The competition, organized by L’Orient-Le Jour and the SmartESA...
BEIRUT — High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Miguel Ángel Moratinos met with President Joseph Aoun and Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh in Baabda on Monday to...
Sitting in the same spot where she almost met death on Aug. 4, 2020, on the same sofa where she heard bombs fall one after the other on the southern suburbs of Beirut between September and November...
The residents of Kowaya live atop the hills of a hidden paradise. Cut through by the Yarmouk River, a pocket of greenery embedded in the valley of the same name allows this village of farmers,...
JERUSALEM — An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces indictment on security charges pending a hearing, Israel's attorney general has said, for allegedly leaking top secret...
As Lebanon waits for the American response to its own reply to the document presented by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack, tensions are rising within the country, and threatening statements from Hezbollah...
The issue of Syrian detainees in Lebanon resurfaced on Friday, as the international community —especially the U.S., via its envoy Thomas Barrack — advocates for a normalization of relations between...
21:14 Beirut Time Egypt, Qatar officials intensify truce talks on Gaza Gaza cease-fire mediators are ramping up efforts to overcome obstacles hindering indirect negotiations between...
DAMASCUS — Syria's Kurdish authorities called again on Sunday for a system of government that preserves a measure of their de facto autonomy, days after Damascus rejected "any form" of...
BEIRUT — Ten people, including two foreign nationals, were arrested during an operation conducted by the Lebanese Army in the town of Btebyat in Metn, the military announced in a statement Sunday...
BEIRUT — Kataeb Party leader and MP Samy Gemayel announced Sunday that he will file a legal complaint against Sheikh Faisal Shukur, a Shiite cleric from the Bekaa Valley with close ties to...
BEIRUT — Syria’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that security forces had arrested a suspected Hezbollah member in possession of explosive devices in the Homs region in southwestern Syria. In a...
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
