The Mouttahidoun ("United" in Arabic) depositors group announced in a statement on Thursday evening that the first investigating judge in the Bekaa, in eastern Lebanon, has set a date — March 16 —...
It seemed like yet another curse among many. After more than a decade of bombing by Bashar al-Assad's regime and its Russian ally, the seizure of much of the area by the jihadist group Hay’at...
A draft resolution demanding Israel "immediately and completely cease" settlement activities in occupied territories was circulating among UN Security Council members, and seen by AFP on Thursday,...
The United Nations launched an appeal for $1 billion on Thursday to help victims in Turkey of last week's catastrophic earthquake that killed thousands of people and left millions more in desperate...
DUBAI — Iran denied US claims that Al-Qaida's leader Seif al-Adel is based in the country, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote on Twitter on Thursday, a day after Washington aligned...
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday threatened the United States and Israel, as Lebanon continues to grapple with an economic and political crisis that has recently seen a rise in...
Supermarkets will be permitted to display their goods' prices in US dollars by adopting the dollar-to-lira rate in force on the parallel market, caretaker Economy Minister Amin Salam announced on...
The first president of the Beirut Court of Appeal Habib Rizkallah on Thursday commissioned the court's attorney general, Raja Hamouche, to handle the investigation into the company Forry Associates...
On what seemed like an ordinary Monday morning, Mohamad Abdallah woke at 6 am, thirsty for a glass of water. On his way to the kitchen, he checked his phone and saw something that stopped him in...
An Israeli firm in 2020 smeared the International Committee of the Red Cross in Burkina Faso, presumably at the request of the Burkinabe government, investigative journalists said Thursday....
Three Lebanese soldiers soldiers and three suspects were killed on Thursday during a Lebanese Army raid in the village of Haour Taala in the Bekaa, in eastern Lebanon, the army announced in a...
Dozens of journalists and rights activists protested in the Tunisian capital on Thursday, accusing the state of "repression" and attempts to intimidate the media. The...
BEIRUT — Gasoline and diesel prices in Lebanon increased Thursday afternoon, for the second time in a single day, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Twenty liters of...
Algerian security forces arrested a person who threatened to bomb the Saudi embassy in Algiers, Saudi state TV said on Thursday, citing a Saudi foreign ministry statement. The embassy said it...
Compiled annually by Forbes , the list features female entrepreneurs working in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who hold executive or management positions in large regional and...
An Iranian court has sentenced influential sociology professor Saeed Madani Ghahfarokhi to eight years in prison, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday. Madani, 62, who has...
BEIRUT — A 4.6-magnitude earthquake was felt in Lebanon Thursday, 10 days after the devastating quake in Turkey that killed more than 41,000 people in Turkey and Syria. No damage was reported....
A large poster fastened to a bridge in earthquake-devastated Aleppo reads: “The inhabitants of Aleppo thank Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Soudani and the leader of the Popular...
ANKARA — Turkey could evaluate Finland and Sweden's bids to join NATO separately, foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday at a joint press conference with NATO General Secretary Jens...
ISTANBUL — A 17-year-old girl was rescued on Thursday from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the southern central province of Kahramanmaras, 248 hours after a massive earthquake struck the...
A leading campaigner for the preservation of Iraq's famed southern marshlands has been freed, two weeks after he was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen, his family said on Thursday....
BEIRUT — People set fire to several banks Thursday in Beirut's Badaro neighborhood, a member of The Depositors' Cry group, Alaa Khorchid, told L'Orient Today , adding that his group was...
BEIRUT — LibanPost's shareholders decided on Thursday to withdraw from a Telecoms Ministry tender to handle postal services, leaving no more candidates for the tender and putting the country's...
Turkish police have detained a man trying to steal a baby from a hospital in southern Turkey, state media reported, following the catastrophic earthquake that hit the region....
BEIJING — China's President Xi Jinping and his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, called on Thursday for the lifting of sanctions on Iran as an integral part of a stalled international agreement...
BEIRUT — Gasoline and diesel prices increased in Lebanon on Thursday morning, while fuel oil for generators remained unchanged, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry....
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen arrived in Kyiv on Thursday for the first visit to Ukraine by an Israeli minister since the Russian invasion nearly a year ago, his office said. He was due to...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira hit a new record low Thursday morning on the parallel market, trading above LL80,000 to the dollar on the parallel market as the country struggles from an economic crisis...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Protesters decrying the lira’s drop to yet another a new low on the parallel market blocked roads across Lebanon while a...
LONDON — The potential economic effects of the earthquake in Turkey could result in a loss of up to 1 percent of the country's gross domestic product this year, the European Bank for Reconstruction...
Saif al-Adel, an Iran-based Egyptian, has become the head of Al-Qaeda following the July 2022 death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the US State Department said Wednesday. "Our...
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
