BEIRUT — Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah spoke this Monday evening at a ceremony marking the 17th anniversary of the end of the July 2006 war. The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah...
BEIRUT — Lebanon has frozen the bank accounts of former Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Riad Salameh and four of his associates, a statement by the Special Investigation Commission said on...
BEIRUT — A massive fire that ravaged a textile warehouse near the airport road in Beirut's southern suburbs for two weeks was finally extinguished Monday, the Civil Defense said in a statement,...
Rights groups called on Monday for accountability over the deaths of hundreds of people killed in a single day 10 years ago when Egyptian security forces dispersed a protest against the ouster...
BEIRUT — Ahmad Mazbouh, the mayor of Ali Nahri, a village in the Bekaa Valley, allegedly shot and killed a man on Monday, a security source told L'Orient Today. Further details, such...
Politicians, media outlets and religious authorities all seem to be fixated on a single topic: “sexual deviation.” This derogatory phrase, used to refer to homosexuality, has become the top...
A major city in Sudan's western Darfur region was rocked Monday by "the sound of artillery strikes" as residents fled violence-wracked Nyala by the dozens, witnesses told AFP....
At least five people died Monday and seven others are missing after their Europe-bound migrant boat sank off Tunisia's coast, a judicial official in the city of Sfax told AFP....
BEIRUT — Lebanon's latest heatwave, which began Saturday, has seen record temperatures, hot winds, high humidity, rain and fog. The intensity of this heatwave and unusually strong gusts of wind...
BEIRUT — South Lebanon is without state-supplied running water due to a power cut, the region's water authority said in a statement Monday, while Électricité du Liban (EDL) threatened to halt power...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea pointed blame Monday at Hezbollah in the Aug. 2 death of former LF official Elias Hasrouni, citing "available information," though an investigation...
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) president Gebran Bassil announced on Monday he would run for another term to lead his party, which is due to hold an election on Sept. 10. In a video...
A pair of Siberian tigers pant incessantly beside a pond at their zoo enclosure in the scorching summer heat of the Iraqi capital. Temperatures on Monday breached 50...
BEIRUT — The head of state legal affairs, Helene Iskandar, sent a request to caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil on Monday, urging him to "provide her with a copy of the forensic audit by the...
Lebanon's caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi assured Monday that recent security incidents in the country are "under investigation," among them Wednesday's gunfight in the...
DUBAI — Iran is committed to resolving its nuclear dispute with world powers through diplomacy, the country's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters in a televised news...
BEIRUT — An armed man opened fire Sunday evening after forcibly entering a police station in the border village of Haicheh in Wadi Khaled, Akkar governorate, a security source and a local witness...
JENIN, occupied West Bank — Sitting in a bullet-scarred building in the city of Jenin, two fighters from Islamic Jihad — a militant group funded by Iran — celebrated what they said was a victory...
GAZA — A heatwave and worsening power cuts in Gaza have left some of those living in the overcrowded Palestinian enclave struggling to breathe. Ismail Nashwan, who suffers from...
Iranian security forces have arrested eight foreign suspects after detaining a gunman in the killing of one person at a Shiite Muslim shrine, authorities said on Monday. The attack on the Shah...
Iraqi merchant Mohamed has never seen such a grim tourist season: years of drought have shrunken the majestic Lake Habbaniyah, keeping away the holidaymakers who once flocked there during summer....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Residents of the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday protested their displacement caused by clashes that broke...
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
