KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria — Two women were pulled from the rubble in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras and a mother and two children were rescued from the city of Antakya on...
JERUSALEM — Israel passed a law on Wednesday that would allow authorities to strip people of citizenship or residency if they have been jailed and received Palestinian funds for actions deemed as...
BEIRUT — As part of her prosecution of several banks, Judge Ghada Aoun, the attorney general of Mount Lebanon, postponed scheduled hearings to Friday, Feb. 17, according to "The People Want...
BEIRUT — Protestors, enraged by the rapid depreciation of the local currency, constructed new roadblocks across Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the South...
GENEVA — Senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to open more border crossings with Turkey to get aid to areas of northern Syria hit by powerful...
The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday pledged an additional $50 million in assistance to quake-hit Syria, the official WAM news agency said, bringing the total value of pledges to more than $100...
Lebanon's Economy Ministry issued a statement Wednesday announcing increased prices for the different packages of Arabic bread. The small package now weighs 338 grams and is sold for LL16,000,...
Born Dec, 27, 1923, Linda Matar shaped the history of feminism in Lebanon and contributed to democratizing and localizing the women's rights movement in the country. Believing that the achievement...
BEIRUT — Gasoline and diesel prices in Lebanon increased Wednesday afternoon, for the second time in a single day, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the...
DUBAI — A loud noise heard on Wednesday in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman was caused by the destruction of old ammunition, the governor of Kerman province said, according to the...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday welcomed "any positive stance" from Arab nations, including many that severed ties with Damascus since the outbreak of its civil war. ...
Tunisia's main opposition coalition on Wednesday slammed a string of "repressive" arrests mainly targeting critics of President Kais Saied, including members of the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha...
Sleiman Frangieh’s term as president (1970-76) is often described as the most difficult presidential term for Lebanon.Frangieh is said to have been elected with the least amount of external...
BEIRUT — During a meeting with caretaker Foreign Affairs Minister Abdallah Bou Habib Wednesday, foreign ambassadors called on Lebanon's government to pass immediate reforms and elect a new...
It seemed like yet another curse among many. After more than a decade of bombing by Bashar al-Assad's regime and its Russian ally, the seizure of much of the area by the jihadist group Hay’at...
ANKARA — Turkish police said they have arrested 78 people accused of creating fear and panic by "sharing provocative posts" about last week's earthquake on social media, adding that 20 of them were...
BEIRUT — Wednesday brought another grim milestone in Lebanon's economic collapse since 2019. While the Lebanese lira beat another new record low of LL77,000 against the dollar on the market,...
Dozens of people are believed to have died in a migrant shipwreck off Libya, with only seven survivors found so far, the United Nations said Wednesday. "At least 73...
An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotaging and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published...
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan traveled Wednesday to arch-foe Turkey for rare talks with his Turkish counterpart, officials in Yerevan said, as the two countries seek to normalize...
BEIRUT — A member of the municipal police in the village of Bzibina in Akkar governorate physically assaulted a Syrian refugee minor, whom he accused of stealing his son's wallet, according to a...
KYIV — Ukraine appealed on Wednesday to the United Nations and Turkey to press Russia to immediately stop hindering Ukrainian grain shipments that supply millions of people and not to use the food...
BRUSSELS — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday the EU will propose sanctions targeting for the first time Iranian economic operators involved in the Russian war in...
Turkey's stock index soared almost 10 percent on Wednesday after five days of earthquake-related closure and last week's steep losses, as government measures to prop equities looked to be working,...
BEIRUT — The official number of Lebanese citizens that died in Turkey during last week's earthquake has reached 16, the spokesperson for the caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib confirmed...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira hit a new record low Wednesday morning on the parallel market, trading at around LL77,000 to the dollar on the parallel market as the country struggles from an...
DAMASCUS — Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi arrived in Damascus on Wednesday in the first such visit since the Syrian conflict and will later head to Turkey to show "solidarity" after the...
BEIRUT — Gasoline and diesel prices increased in Lebanon on Wednesday morning, unlike fuel oil for generators whose price went down, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Commercial banks, entering the second week of their open-ended strike, faced new pressure as the lira fell to a record low of...
ANTAKYA — Nine survivors were rescued from the rubble in Turkey on Tuesday, more than a week after a massive earthquake struck, as the focus of the aid effort shifted to helping people now...
ANTAKYA — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed to press on with rescue and recovery efforts more than a week after a powerful quake ripped through his country and neighboring Syria, with an...
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
