Macron rallies global support, secures $1 billion in aid for Lebanon On Oct. 24, 2024, the French President organized an international conference on Lebanon, which resulted in an aid package of...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is also leader of the far-right Israeli Otzma Yehudit party, has announced he and his party will resign from cabinet if the cease-fire and...
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected in Beirut on Friday, Jan. 17, a week after Joseph Aoun's election as president. France is among the five countries that pressured for the election of a...
A month and a half after a cease-fire was reached between Israel and Hezbollah, a few weeks after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and a few days after Joseph Aoun's election as head of the...
Since the arrest of Saad Hariri in Saudi Arabia in 2017, up to the election of Joseph Aoun last week, you have never abandoned Lebanon. What explains this constant commitment to a country that is...
The final disputes holding up a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas were resolved Thursday evening, according to reports from Haaretz and Axios, the latter citing an unnamed U.S. official and...
WASHINGTON — A last-minute glitch surfaced on Thursday in the details of the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal and U.S. envoys are working to resolve it, according to a U.S. official cited...
BEIRUT — On a sunny January day, the day after the cease-fire was announced and three days before it was set to officially take effect, Hamra Street — known for its leftist background and as a site...
Compounding countless human losses, the war in Syria has also devastated its heritage. Entire sections of humanity's millennia-old past have been wiped out. According to satellite images...
False claims have massively spread, especially on social media, since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime: A man attacked in front of his child for being part of the Alawite community, the...
Judge Helene Iskandar, who retired on Tuesday after reaching the legal retirement age, handed over the leadership of the State Litigation Department on Thursday to her colleague, Claude Ghanem, the...
BEIRUT — The day after President Joesph Aoun’s election, share prices of Solidere (The Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of Beirut Central District) rallied, reaching a record...
One week after the election of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, the first appointments to the team surrounding him at the presidency are starting to be unveiled. The head of state has entrusted...
"Each student with specific needs has the right to education just like everyone else," stated Professor Georges Nehmeh, the rector of University La Sagesse (ULS), during the inauguration...
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, is expected in Lebanon on Thursday for an official visit aimed at showing support for the Lebanese people and the peacekeeping forces...
Her career is at least as prestigious as her husband's. Sahar Baassiri, wife of newly appointed Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, was a prominent journalist and diplomat who served as the permanent...
Clay Stories Collective brought together eight ceramists—Zeina Aboul-Hosn, Hassan Kamel-Sabbah, Yasmina Khalife, Majdoline Hatoum, Wafaa Bilal, Ali Karout, Dina Maalouf, Colette Arslan—who create...
The Lebanese Army urged the media on Thursday to cease publishing the names of potential candidates for the position of commander-in-chief. "The army command calls on the media concerned to no...
General Michael Kurilla, head of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), visited Iraq on Wednesday to hold talks with U.S. and Iraqi military chiefs in Baghdad and meet U.S. troops stationed in Erbil,...
BEIRUT — Druze Sheikh Aql (spiritual leader) Sami Abi al-Mona led a prominent religious delegation to Baabda Presidential Palace on Thursday for a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. The...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun received an official invitation to visit Jordan on Thursday, delivered by Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on behalf of King Abdullah II. Safadi...
High-quality scientific research is at the core of a university's mission. Research is worthless if its results are not published, utilized and shared with everyone. These points are adopted by...
Despite repeated warnings from Palestinian and Lebanese authorities about the dangers of "celebratory" gunfire following the announcement of a cease-fire in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, many...
The Lebanese Army entered Aitaroun (Bint Jbeil) on Wednesday morning to clear roads following destruction caused by Israeli strikes, said the mayor of Aitaroun (Bint Jbeil), Salim Mourad, to...
“The country must move forward.” This brief statement from Nabih Berri, made in an interview with local channel LBCI, captured the stance of the Amal-Hezbollah alliance regarding the formation of...
BEIRUT — Visiting Lebanon on Wednesday, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares Bueno emphasized that it was "in everyone's interest, Lebanon's but also Israel's, to allow the Lebanese Army to...
On Jan. 13, First Investigating judge in Mount Lebanon Nicolas Mansour handed down an indictment against 20 people implicated in the child pornography case on TikTok, which came to light in April...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun welcomed the conclusion of an agreement in Gaza, hoping that it can put an end to the "tragic situation" experienced by Palestinians in the enclave besieged...
U.S. President Joe Biden urged Americans Wednesday to stand guard against a "dangerous" oligarchy forming under Donald Trump as he delivered a dark farewell address before stepping down next week....
The boycott of non-binding parliamentary consultations by the Shiite alliance (Amal and Hezbollah) sends a clear message to the designated prime minister: their participation in the government is...
On Thursday, Lebanese Mufti of the Republic Abdel Latif Derian congratulated Prime Minister-elect Nawaf Salam on his appointment as head of the next government in a phone call. "Dar al-Fatwa...
BEIRUT — Qatar's ambassador to Lebanon, Saud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, delivered an official invitation from Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to Lebanese President Michel Aoun for a...
This time, it seems like it might be the right one. After more than 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas, a cease-fire and hostage release agreement in Gaza was announced on Wednesday evening...
A potential trial in France for former Syrian central bank governor Adib Mayaleh, accused of financing crimes linked to Bashar al-Assad's regime during the Syrian war, has become increasingly...
19:17 Beirut Time Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam concluded his second and final day of non-binding parliamentary consultations. He left Parliament without making a statement....
19:39 Beirut Time (Credit: 2024 Planet Labs Inc./Handout via Reuters) A combination of satellite images shows a general view of Rimal neighborhoods and the surrounding area of Gaza...
Israel intensified strikes on Gaza hours after a cease-fire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities in the Palestinian enclave said, as mediators sought to quell fighting...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Thursday hailed a cease-fire deal in Gaza between Israel and the Hamas militant group as a "victory" for Palestinians and a "defeat" for Israel. "The end of the war...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Jan. 16, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Global reactions to the Gaza cease-fire...
Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners paving the the way to a possible end to a devastating 15-month...
WASHINGTON — A long-sought Gaza cease-fire-for-hostages deal emerged at the end of an intense 96 hours of negotiations in Doha brokered by U.S., Egyptian and Qatari diplomats who persuaded...
BEIRUT — From the South to the North, Palestinian refugees across Lebanon were celebrating on Wednesday evening, as word spread of the announcement of a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas...
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?
