The Lebanese Foreign Ministry on Monday strongly condemned the Israeli government's decision “to expand settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan.” This extension decision “goes hand in hand with...
Three travel agencies told L'Orient-Le Jour that Air France flights to Lebanon will remain suspended until the beginning of February, while a spokesperson for the airline confirmed that the...
At a meeting in Beirut on Monday with his Lebanese counterpart Najib Mikati, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed the need to respect the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, as...
- German airline SundAir resumed its flights connecting Berlin to Beirut and will operate two flights per week. It is the first European airline to resume flights to Lebanon since nearly all 60...
Zeinab Nasrallah, the daughter of former Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, disputed claims that her father lived in underground bunkers, calling them "completely false" in an interview...
The video has been widely shared on Syrian social media since Friday. It shows a meeting between representatives of six predominantly Druze villages near the Israeli-occupied and annexed Golan...
Hezbollah launched a fund distribution and compensation operation for people whose homes were damaged by Israeli bombings in a sector of the Nabatieh governorate, announced the party's...
Ousted president Bashar al-Assad broke his silence Monday after fleeing Syria, saying in a statement that he only left once Damascus had fallen and denounced the country's new leaders as...
Former Lebanese minister and head of the Tawhid Party, Wiam Wahhab, known for his controversial statements during televised interviews, called on Sunday evening for normalization with Israel,...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri expressed optimism on Monday about the election of a Lebanese president during the session scheduled for Jan. 9, according to local media outlets. "The...
BEIRUT — Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Qatar's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi met with Lebanese officials on Monday, according to the...
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has brought about the disappearance of the ideological framework on which the Baathist regime was founded, as well as its political and constitutional...
Lebanese entrepreneur Najib Khatib is relaunching the international brand Pinkberry in Lebanon. With his partner Khalil Khamis, they acquired the franchise of the famous frozen yogurt brand for the...
Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory on Sunday killed at least 40 people, including several children, an Al Jazeera TV cameraman and three rescuers....
Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, has called for the swift appointment of a team tasked with inspecting Lebanese prisons, pending a parliamentary decision on a potential general...
BEIRUT — In an interview with Iran’s state-owned Press TV, Zainab Nasrallah, daughter of Hezbollah’s former Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, disputed claims that her father lived in underground...
Abu Ahmad had sworn not to drink a drop of water until he set foot in Yarmouk. In 2018, he was forced to flee the Palestinian camp — a triangular, two-square-kilometer city recaptured by the Assad...
A team of Turkish rescuers began an in-depth search of Syria's infamous Sednaya prison on Monday, a spokesman for Turkey's AFAD disaster management agency told AFP. Located just north of...
The few weeks the Sursock Museum was closed during the Israeli war caused a stir, but its director, Karina al-Helou, clarified in an interview with L'Orient Today (Oct. 30, 2024) that the closure...
The Kremlin said on Monday that no final decisions had yet been taken on the fate of Russia's military bases in Syria and that it was in contact with those in charge of the country. The Tartus...
In the streets of Baghdad, surveillance has intensified. As night falls, alcohol shops – marked by the logos of major whiskey brands like Glenfiddich, Jameson and Chivas – are now under the...
On Monday, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah criticized the Lebanese authorities' management of the cease-fire with Israel, stating, "Only our Resistance and our weapons can protect us," during a...
As the ‘axis of resistance’ suffers another blow with the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Yemen, where Iranian-backed Houthi rebels control much of the territory, emerges as a potential fallback for...
Syria's Kurds, who run a semi-autonomous administration in the northeast, called Monday for an end to all fighting in the country and extended a hand to the new authorities in Damascus. Hussein...
I never imagined I would one day return to Syria. During my last (purely transactional) visit to my father's country in 2017, I was convinced that I would never need to return. So, I took with me...
The Assad era is over. The Syrian dictator’s fall on Dec. 8 is a Syrian issue before anything else. But this historic event will have a major impact on Lebanon, which is strongly influenced by the...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has instructed the swift appointment to accelerate of a judge from the Court of Cassation, an officer from the Internal Security Forces and a...
The Syrian pound has strengthened against the U.S. dollar by at least 20% over the past two days amid an influx of Syrians from neighboring Lebanon and Jordan and an end to strict controls on trade...
The United Nations told the leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group which toppled Bashar al-Assad that Syria must have a "credible and inclusive" transition. The U.N. special envoy for...
BEIRUT — Two Israeli drone strikes on Monday targeted the southern Lebanese villages of Najjarieh and Tebna, in the Saida district, around 45 kilometers from the Israeli border, reported L'Orient...
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday the bloc's envoy to Syria was going to Damascus to talk to the new Islamist-led rulers, as Western powers stepped up engagement after the ouster of...
Initially cautious, foreign governments are stepping up their efforts to establish contact with the new Islamist government in Syria, a week after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Visiting Syria, U.N....
21:04 Beirut Time The Lebanese Foreign Affairs Ministry has strongly condemned the Israeli government's decision “to expand settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan.” 20:30...
Lebanon's caretaker Public Works and Transportation Minister Ali Hamieh announced on Sunday that Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airlines (MEA), had resumed its flights over Syria, calling...
The worst suffering a human being can experience is the inability to mourn. Not knowing whether a missing friend or relative is still alive or dead causes unbearable pain.It is worth pointing out...
At the headquarters of the Greek Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East in Damascus, two men walk across the black-and-white checkered courtyard with their Kalashnikovs in...
Israel's foreign ministry announced on Sunday that it was closing its embassy in Ireland, citing the Dublin government's "extreme anti-Israeli policies", further straining tense relations between...
After two months of intense conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, images of gray streets where collapsed concrete buildings lie in shapeless heaps have become increasingly familiar.These scenes,...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Dec. 16, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Efforts to reach a cease-fire in Gaza between...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 3:30 p.m.: Lebanon's caretaker Cabinet holds a...
Intense Israeli strikes targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartous region overnight from Sunday to Monday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Israeli fighter jets...
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
