BEIRUT — French envoy to Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian had meetings with Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian and Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Waleed Bukhari, as well as Patriarch Rai on Thursday to...
“Another impending disaster." “Not the news you want to encounter before your departure.” “It seems they haven’t absorbed any lessons from the Beirut port explosion.” These are the alarmed...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, voiced alarm Thursday at signs of more fragmentation in Syria's war, calling for dialogue to avoid opening a new "catastrophic dimension"...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation has continued the marathon talks it started Monday with various institutions in Lebanon. A two-and-a-half-hour meeting with the chairmen of the...
BEIRUT — A brush fire in the village of Khirbet Bisri, in the Chouf region, erupted Thursday and was spreading across several hundred dunums of land, local mukhtar Shafik Eid told L'Orient...
The US and three European allies have threatened Iran with another resolution at the UN nuclear watchdog's board demanding action on issues such as explaining uranium traces found at undeclared...
BEIRUT — Storm Daniel, the Mediterranean cyclone that hit eastern Libya during the weekend and killed at least 4,000 people in a devastating flood, will not hit Lebanon, head of the forecasting...
“The status quo is unbearable.” During his second day visit in Beirut, Jean-Yves Le Drian made it clear to his Lebanese interlocutors that the situation was serious and that, one year after the...
Hussein Mohammed was driving his minibus south of Sudan's capital when his blood ran cold at the sight of a paramilitary convoy advancing into areas so far largely spared from the war....
The United Nations said Thursday that most of the thousands of deaths in Libya's flood disaster could have been averted if early warning and emergency management systems had functioned properly....
BEIRUT — French special envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian met Thursday with Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai in Bkirki, on his third day of talks with Lebanese leaders to push for an end to a nearly...
The commander-in-chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, is one of three senior officials targeted in a rare criminal complaint filed with Paris prosecutors Thursday....
BEIRUT — Most public school students are one to two full years behind their grade level amid an ongoing collapse of the Lebanese education sector fuelled by the political and economic crises,...
Saudi Arabia's defense ministry has executed two military personnel who were accused of committing treason among other offenses, the state news agency (SPA) said on Thursday....
BEIRUT — A ceasefire agreement was reached on Thursday in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian camp, marking the end of a day of talks initiated by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. The aim was to bring an end...
Iran's government has warned it will not tolerate any signs of "instability" as the first anniversary nears of the death of Mahsa Amini and the months-long protests it sparked....
The United States plans to withhold $85 million in military aid to Egypt because of Cairo's failure to meet US conditions on freeing political prisoners and other issues, according to a...
A global effort to assist stricken Libya gathered pace Thursday after a tsunami-like flood killed nearly 4,000 people and left thousands missing. Military transport...
BEIRUT — The left corner of the reception hall is piled with sand, as if years of wind had blown it there. Emerging from the center of the mound is a single white amphora — those ceramic jugs the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Renewed fighting brought an end to the short-lived ceasefire in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp Wednesday afternoon,...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
