Four people accused of a kidnapping in Lebanon for Israel's Mossad spy agency last month have been charged, a judicial official said on Thursday, after a retired security officer whose brother...
BEKAA — The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Thursday that it carried out raids on a Captagon-manufacturing factory located in the Tall Abiad area of Baalbeck,...
BEIRUT — Cabinet gave the green light on Thursday to launch the competitive bidding process for the management and operation of the two public networks, MIC 1 and MIC 2, whose services are marketed...
A flurry of both military threats and attempts at diplomacy unfolded on two parallel fronts overnight from Jan. 14 to Jan. 15. As U.S. President Donald Trump weighed attacking Iran, intense...
BEIRUT — American ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa said Thursday he was "proud" of the progress being made at the Beirut Port following a tour of the loading and unloading zone,...
The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that it had ordered its embassies in 75 countries, including Lebanon, to suspend the processing of immigration visas starting on Jan. 21. According...
U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to intervene if protesters were killed by the Iranian regime. According to the NGO Iran Human Rights, more than 3,400 people have been killed in recent...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on five Iranian officials it accused of being behind the crackdown on protests and said it was tracking Iranian leaders' funds being wired to...
After more than five years of detention in Azerbaijan, Vicken Euljeckjian, a Lebanese-Armenian captured as a civilian shortly after the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh between Yerevan and Baku was...
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman led efforts to talk U.S. President Donald Trump out of an attack on Iran, a senior Saudi official told AFP on Thursday, with another Gulf official confirming the...
DiaBEAT, created by Valerie Naufal and Elissa Diab, computer engineering students, along with Taline Saad and Hassan Tfaily, who studied electrical and mechatronics engineering — all at the...
BEIRUT — In light of his connections to the recent 'Abu Omar' controversy — in which for years a man posed as a fake Saudi prince, alleging special access to Riyadh, and promised Saudi...
Alongside the handover of Fatah weapons to the authorities, reports recently published by Lebanese and Palestinian media indicate that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is involved in the...
The mobile telecommunications file, one of the few sectors still capable of generating steady revenue for the state, returns to the Cabinet’s table on Thursday.After years of stagnation, the...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today...
This week's selection of exhibitions is particularly exciting for maximalists who love art and landscapes that are so loud and vibrant that you feel transported elsewhere. Mixing patterns,...
Iran vowed on Thursday to defend itself against any foreign threat, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would "watch it and see" about military action over the crackdown on...
As the Trump administration openly discusses possible military intervention against Iran amid a massive crackdown on protests, concern is mounting in the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump...
Three Palestine solidarity activists that have been detained by UK authorities while awaiting trial have ended their hunger strike after 73 days, according to a statement released late Wednesday by...
Lebanese police announced Thursday that they had arrested three men suspected in a murder case — one accused of planning the crime and the other two of carrying it out — who killed a relative of...
The European Union and Lebanon signed six new Financing Agreements, amounting to 110.5 million euros (about $128.6 million) in grants, "to support Lebanon’s security sector, recovery in...
Nickolay Mladenov's name surfaced as soon as Tony Blair was ruled out as the frontrunner to head Gaza's “Board of Peace.”Less controversial and more discreet, it is now nearly official that...
Is there life after the Islamic Republic? At a time when Tehran is under unprecedented pressure from the protest movement and the threat of U.S. military intervention, the prospect of the regime’s...
President Joseph Aoun welcomed the signing of 21 agreements between Lebanon and Jordan during a meeting Thursday with Jordanian Prime Minister Jaafar Hassan at the Presidential Palace in Baabda....
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the onion, sweating it without letting it color. Add the pumpkin, saute for 5 minutes while stirring. Pour in water to cover, season with salt and pepper. Bring...
Rain poured over Gemmayzeh as thunder lit the stained-glass windows of the Sacreh-Cœur Church. Inside, a packed, attentive, almost somber audience listened as Mansour Rahbani spoke one final time....
SOUTH LEBANON/BEKAA — The Israeli army carried out two successive series of strikes on Thursday afternoon in West Bekaa, in Sohmor and then Mashghara, hitting four locations that it had previously...
Oil slid Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to dial down threats of imminent military action on Iran, while Asian markets were mixed after Wall Street edged lower the previous day....
Long mocked by Lebanese audiences for its archaism and its gradual slide into obsolescence, Télé Liban is now on a path of rehabilitation under UNESCO auspices.Lebanon’s first public television...
A Venezuelan man who allegedly fled a traffic stop in Minneapolis was shot in the leg on Wednesday by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, the government said, amid a surge that...
Lebanon is holding its breath waiting to see how the situation will unfold in Iran. The political landscape at home is at a standstill, except for a tour on Wednesday by representatives of the...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he had been told that killings in Iran’s crackdown on protests were easing and that he believed there was no current plan for large-scale executions, adopting a...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced that Energin DMCC, a Dubai-based international trading company, won a tender to supply diesel to Electricité du Liban (EDL) for five months, marking a first...
23:11 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage of events for today. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more updates and analysis as the news unfolds....
Iran reopened its airspace after a near-five-hour closure amid concerns about possible military action between the U.S. and Iran that forced airlines to cancel, reroute or delay some flights. Iran...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:Developments out of Cairo, where Palestinian...
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
