BEIRUT — A meeting of 20 ministers took place on Friday at the Grand Serail in Beirut, chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, to decide on a "mechanism" to continue the management of...
After not placing a single sports bet in over three years, Ghassan Doulani, 42, a husband and a father of two, broke his streak to bet on the 2022 World Cup. Doulani seized the opportunity of the...
DUBAI — A prominent dissident Sunni Muslim cleric urged Iranian authorities on Friday to free thousands of detained protesters and stop executions as the three-month-old unrest churned on...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad announced that the second phase of the cholera vaccination campaign was launched Friday and warned that “danger” is still present. The Ministry of...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Minister of Transport and Public Works Ali Hamiyeh participated in a Friday test session of buses donated to Lebanon by France and announced that some of them will be put...
Hundreds of people with permanent or semi-permanent disabilities wrought by the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port blast are aiming to make their voices heard. The Socio-Economic Justice Initiative (MAAN) on...
It is part of Lebanon’s political culture to turn to foreign countries whenever the local machine breaks down.Many Lebanese hope the international community is a savior that can be called upon to...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese army received three military helicopters provided by the United States on Friday, the state-run National News Agency and the army reported. During a ceremony organized in...
Six irregular migrants drowned Friday when their bus fell into an irrigation canal in southeastern Turkey, the local governor's office said. Five others were injured and 25...
Dozens took to the streets Friday in Iran's restive southeast, footage shared by rights groups showed, as a wave of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death entered the fourth month....
The United Nations' peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Friday urged Beirut to ensure a "speedy" investigation into an Irish soldier's shooting death near the Israeli border....
BEIRUT — France's foreign ministry said at a press briefing Friday that Lebanon will "probably" be on the agenda of a regional summit scheduled to take place in Amman before the end of the year,...
BEIRUT — Britain said Friday it hoped a ruling by a Lebanese court to uphold the conviction of an Uber driver for the 2017 rape and murder of a British woman in Lebanon would bring closure for her...
Morocco will host the next Club World Cup in February, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced Friday, while the planned expanded version of the competition is now set to start in 2025....
BEIRUT — Amid difficult living conditions for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, some "90 percent of Syrian refugee families need humanitarian assistance to survive," according to a joint statement Friday...
A year ago to the day, Banque Du Liban implemented a new mechanism that has adjusted and even reinforced the banking restrictions hindering Lebanese depositors’ free access to their bank accounts,...
The Energy Ministry announced new decreased fuel prices on Friday morning, except for gas. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL734,000, down by LL13,000. • Twenty...
BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Army chief Joseph Aoun visited the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon headquarters in Naqoura, South Lebanon Friday morning, vowing...
BEIRUT — Several people were injured Friday morning in a gas cylinder explosion in a residential complex in the Metn region town of Beit Misk north of Beirut, Red Cross head Georges Kettaneh told...
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament suspended all work on legislation linked to Qatar on Thursday, and its president told EU leaders she would lead reforms to prevent a repeat of a criminal...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . An “incident” in South Lebanon killed an Irish UN peacekeeper and injured three others — one of whom is in critical condition —...
AMMAN — Jordanians staged sit-ins on Friday and activists called for more protests over fuel price rises that have added to a cost-of-living squeeze, a day after riots in a southern city left one...
DIYARBAKIR — A roadside car bomb exploded, damaging a police minibus on a highway in southeast Turkey's Diyarbakir province on Friday, and nine people in the bus were taken to hospital as a...
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?
