U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack on Tuesday welcomed the decision by the Banque du Liban to prohibit banks, financial institutions, brokerage firms, collective investment funds and any entity it regulates...
"We will not allow the creation of a second Lebanon [in the southwest of] Syria," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, according to the Israeli media outlet Israel...
While discussing the situation in Sweida, Syria, where Syrian forces are accused of having launched a bloody offensive against Druze, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said Tuesday night in an interview...
Acting first investigative judge at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, Nicolas Mansour, issued two arrest warrants on Monday, one against L.B. and the other against M.A. in the case of the Faraya...
The motion introduced in the Israeli parliament seeking to remove the leader of the Communist Party, Ayman Odeh, from his position did not gain a majority on Monday, reports the daily Haaretz. In...
BEIRUT — “We are preparing to offer Russians a show like they have never seen before,” says Abdel Halim Caracalla, as Lebanon’s famed dance-theater troupe announces it will bring its masterpiece...
U.S. diplomat Tom Barrack said Tuesday that deadly violence in Syria's southern province of Sweida was "worrisome" and that his government was working to restore calm in the country....
Syria on Tuesday condemned Israeli air strikes on the southern Druze-majority province of Sweida, where government forces entered after bloody sectarian clashes that killed more than 100....
Syrian government forces deployed Tuesday in the majority-Druze city of Sweida, in southern Syria, in a clear bid by the Islamist authorities to extend their authority to a city previously...
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah condemned an Israeli air strike that killed 12 people in the Bekaa Valley on Tuesday, as a "major escalation." In a statement, the group said...
A war monitor accused Syrian government forces and allied groups on Tuesday of killing 19 Druze civilians in "field executions" around Sweida, including 12 shot dead at a guest house....
Clerics and diplomats walked as if in a religious procession through the streets of Taybeh, a small Christian village in the occupied West Bank where residents blame Israeli settlers for a spate of...
The civil defense in the Gaza Strip reported Tuesday that 18 people were killed by new airstrikes and gunfire from the Israeli army in the besieged and starving Palestinian territory after 21...
Syrian authorities were accused on Tuesday of carrying out "field executions" of civilians in the predominantly Druze province of Sweida, where Israel launched strikes against government...
U.S. envoy for Lebanon and Syria Tom Barrack told the National on Friday that the Lebanese Army must be strengthened.Just hours later, the Trump administration followed through. In a statement, the...
The U.N. warned Tuesday that mass displacement in the West Bank had hit levels not seen since the start of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territory nearly 60 years ago. The United...
In its main Circular No. 170 dated July 14, Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank) barred banks, financial institutions, brokerage firms, collective investment funds and any entity under its...
An advertisement by Israeli state-owned weapons manufacturer Rafael features a drone pursuing an unarmed Gazan resident before exploding near him, UK-based outlet "Middle East Eye" (MEE)...
Despite his smile, Tom Barrack shook up the Lebanese political scene far more than Hurricane Morgan. While his visit to Beirut last week felt like a summer breeze, it has since been followed by a...
The Lebanese Army arrested 144 Syrians who entered Lebanon illegally, during raids in the villages of Falougha (Baabda), Bekaata and Semkanieh (Chouf), according to a statement from the military...
Former minister Wiam Wahhab, head of the Tawhid party, announced Tuesday the creation of a new armed group called the "Army of Tawhid," calling for "armed resistance" after recent developments in...
Foreign Minister Joe Rajji said Tuesday, from Brussels, that Lebanon remains "fully committed to extending its sovereignty over its entire territory, in accordance with the Taif Agreement and...
Lebanon finds itself in an increasingly difficult position. More than five months after the formation of Nawaf Salam’s government, the first under President Joseph Aoun, reforms are progressing...
The Israeli army killed ten people at a water distribution point in central Gaza' Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday. According to the Palestinian civil defense, at least six children who had been...
A pioneer of musical theater in Brazil, Jorge Takla has spent decades shaping the operatic and musical landscape of South America. Fusing a deep love of lyricism with a flair for theatrical gesture...
With summer well underway, the jellyfish alert along Lebanon's coast has been raised once again. Each year, videos of these stinging marine creatures flood social media. But so far, their presence...
The question is expected to take center stage at the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Tuesday, following a push last May by a majority of member states to review the EU-Israel Association...
Parliament, meeting at Nejmeh Square, opened at 11 a.m. with a questioning session for Nawaf Salam's government, as the issue of Hezbollah’s disarmament — demanded by the authorities and the...
The Libyan Government of National Unity's Ministry of Justice criticized Lebanese authorities on Monday for a lack of cooperation on the Hannibal Gaddafi case. Gaddafi, one of deposed Libyan...
A little over a month passed between the end of the mandate of Banque du Liban's (BDL) vice governors and the Banking Control Commission's (BCC) members, and the government's new...
Israeli airstrikes targeting alleged Hezbollah targets in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 12 people, including five Hezbollah members, according to a security source cited by...
Syria's defense minister announced a cease-fire in the Druze-majority city of Sweida on Tuesday after government forces entered the city to end deadly clashes with Bedouin tribes. "To all...
Syrian state media reported that the Israeli military struck the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Tuesday, as Syrian government forces entered the Druze-majority city to end deadly clashes with...
In the Bekaa, Abou Jean, a Zahle tuk-tuk driver with four years of taxi service under his belt, now sets off for work in his small three-wheeler with a knot of fear in his stomach. The Interior...
Someone is kidnapped and suddenly everything ignites. Fighting has seized southern Syria's predominantly Druze Sweida province since Sunday, sparked by the abduction of a Druze merchant by a...
Employees of the Tripoli municipality held a sit-in Tuesday morning in front of the city’s municipal building to demand salary adjustments as well as medical assistance and "to denounce the...
U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack warned Monday, in a televised interview, that any attempt to forcibly disarm Hezbollah could "lead to a civil war in Lebanon," at a time when this issue remains...
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Syrian government forces were set to enter the southern city of Sweida on Tuesday to quell deadly clashes between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes, with one Druze armed group saying talks with...
Stuttering Gaza cease-fire talks entered a second week on Monday, with mediators seeking to close the gap between Israel and Hamas, as more than 20 people were killed across the Palestinian...
The three members of a United Nations commission charged with investigating human rights abuses in Israel and the Palestinian territories have resigned, saying it is time to renew the body, a U.N....
A drone packed with explosives was shot down near Erbil airport on Monday, with two more later hitting an oil field in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish security forces said....
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
