As its acting governor Wassim Manssouri has repeatedly stated, Banque du Liban’s central council believes that Lebanon — which has been in crisis for four years and has almost always accumulated...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said Friday he will authorize procedures against "all those corrupt" in government administrations, a statement that was made amid tensions with...
More than 2,000 Syrians in the rebel-held Idlib region, devastated by an earthquake in February, held prayers on Friday for the victims of natural disasters in Morocco and Libya. ...
During a time of profound upheavals in the Middle East and the world, Lebanon is merely an observer. Gone are Lebanon’s days of geopolitical significance. Today, Lebanon resembles an island,...
Thousands of Syrians protested Friday in the southern city of Sweida, the largest in nearly a month of anti-government demonstrations that have intensified despite one incidence of violence,...
BEIRUT — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has once again criticized — in a statement published on Friday — the "lack of action" by Lebanese authorities on "urgently needed reforms" to the...
European Union member Cyprus said Friday it has asked the bloc to review whether Syria remains an unsafe country to which member states should be barred from repatriating asylum-seekers....
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced that it killed one suspect and arrested four others, all wanted for numerous crimes committed between 2020 and 2023 mostly in Beirut and...
After a week of fighting, a sense of relative calm returned to the Ain al-Hilweh camp on Friday morning. The break from fighting can be attributed to a new ceasefire agreement reached...
BEIRUT — The results of the latest mission of French special envoy for Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian in Lebanon are "positive," stated caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, after a call with Le Drian...
BEIRUT — State Security announced in a statement on Friday that they had arrested five Syrian people smugglers in Nabatieh who had been facilitating border crossings between Lebanon and Syria via...
BEIRUT — More than a dozen people fled their houses in rural Akkar while several others were suffering burns and breathing difficulties after a large wildfire broke out on Friday, L'Orient Today...
The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said it was imperative that the thousands of migrants who have arrived in recent days on the Italian island of Lampedusa be relocated because of its...
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they hoped to overcome "challenges" on Friday as they head into unprecedented talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending their devastating eight-year war....
BEIRUT — Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri denies that French special envoy for Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian put forward the idea of a third presidential candidate, although the respective...
Rescuers sifted through mud and rubble Friday in their search for people missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna, killing more than 3,000....
Iran has seized two oil tankers allegedly carrying smuggled fuel in the Gulf and arrested their crews, state television announced on Friday. "The Revolutionary Guards naval...
In Eastern Libya, Storm Daniel has wreaked havoc. Reports by the UN estimate that at least 4,000 people have been killed after the hurricane-strength storm hit the country on Sept. 10. Several...
The United Nations is urgently seeking more than $71 million to assist those most in need after deadly flash floods swept Libya over the weekend. Hurricane-strength Storm...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Friday announced a slight increase in fuel prices and a huge hike in one kiloliter of fuel oil. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline:...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced on Thursday that it had prevented an attempted illegal sea crossing from the port of Abdeh near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. The statement said that "two...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. A new cease-fire was brokered by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to end clashes in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp,...
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?
