Kuwait's interior ministry said on Monday it arrested 16 people – 14 Kuwaitis and two Lebanese nationals – affiliated with Hezbollah who had planned a "sabotage plot" in the Gulf...
"We are capable of shaking up the country and overthrowing the government, our patience has limits," said Hezbollah's deputy head of the Political Council, Mahmoud Comati, according...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog told AFP on Monday that an offer by French leader Emmanuel Macron to host direct talks with Lebanon was "a very positive development". "I think...
In response to the scale of Lebanon's humanitarian crisis, where more than one million people have been displaced since the start of the war between Hezbollah and Israel on March 2, the...
Hezbollah on Monday said it targeted Israeli troops and vehicles in at least three Lebanese border towns, after the Israeli army announced it had begun limited ground operations in Lebanon. In...
Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday said the war in the Middle East started by U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran was "not a matter for NATO" and Germany would not be taking part in it....
Two drones targeted a major southern Iraqi oil field late Monday, an oil ministry spokesperson told AFP , after the second attack in four days. Majnoon oil field was "targeted by two drones,...
Iraq's powerful Kataeb Hezbollah on Monday said its senior commander and security spokesperson Abu Ali al-Askari had been killed. The group's leader Ahmad al-Hamidawi, also known as Abu...
The Disasters and Risk Management Unit, under the presidency of the Cabinet, announced Monday evening that the number of internally displaced persons in Lebanon has surpassed one million....
Four Hezbollah members were prosecuted Monday by the government commissioner to the military court, Claude Ghanem. The cases are part of measures taken under the law banning the transport of...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Monday that an Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon was an "error" which would "further exacerbate the already highly tense humanitarian...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards threatened on Monday to target U.S. companies across the region, calling on employees to evacuate the sites. "Employees of American companies ... are...
Speaking to a visiting delegation at Baabda Palace on Monday, President Joseph Aoun said, “No one expected another war by outsiders on our land,” referring to the front Hezbollah opened against...
Telecom operator Alfa announced in a statement published Monday the automatic activation of the Free e-Learning plan for all its data subscribers on its network in Lebanon. The company specifies...
In the Christian, Druze and Sunni villages of south Lebanon, residents are determined to remain in their homes, despite the looming Israeli ground offensive and bombardments that have already...
Lebanon's Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli attacks have killed 886 people in the country since the war erupted on March 2, raising a previous toll of 850 a day earlier. The new...
Needs are soaring while donations are declining, several NGOs told L’Orient-Le Jour, as they struggle to keep up with the humanitarian crisis amid the Israeli war on Lebanon, which erupted on March...
For these chefs, cooking is more than a profession — it is a passion they fuel with time, energy, money and love. In Lebanon’s current heavy and uncertain context — once again facing war with...
BEIRUT — There’s nothing simple about mechanically reproduced images.A photograph exists in a swirl of conversations about truth and representation, in what’s included or excluded, candid or...
She had dreamed of unveiling this debut album in Beirut. But it is in Paris that Palestinian musician Salwa Jaradat finally presented "Nafas," a record already marked by the turbulence of...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will hold a "news conference" on Monday as the war he ordered against Iran continues for a third week. Trump frequently takes questions from reporters...
BEIRUT — After U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched an urgent humanitarian appeal during a visit to Beirut last Friday to address the crisis caused by the displacement of hundreds of...
Dear readers, At least “a few more weeks” in Iran and “a few months” in Lebanon: that is the timeline Israel is reportedly considering for the continuation of its war on these two fronts,...
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BEIRUT — A convoy carrying dozens of tons of humanitarian aid was delivered to Christian villages in the border area in southern Lebanon at the initiative of Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Paolo...
BEIRUT – Cabinet met Monday at the Grand Serail, as part of its daily session to assess the country's situation. Its meeting addresses a surge in online hate campaigns targeting media and...
This is already a 21st-century historical catastrophe. The war launched by Israel and the United States against Iran on Feb. 28 will undoubtedly have long-term consequences.Iran’s neighboring...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s vice president, Mahmoud Qomati, said in an interview on al‑Jadeed that the group’s decision to join the regional war alongside Iran, including the rocket attacks on March 2,...
BEIRUT — The president of the Lebanese University (LU), Bassam Badran, announced Monday that classes and administrative activities will resume as normal starting Tuesday, March 17 in all faculties...
A Pakistani oil tanker transited the Strait of Hormuz with its automatic transponder system activated, despite major disruption to shipping in the crucial waterway from the Middle East war, monitor...
BEIRUT — Speaker Nabih Berri said Monday that the November 2024 cease-fire terms should remain the basis for restoring calm between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, insisting negotiations rely on...
The Iranian women's football team will depart from Malaysia on Monday on a flight bound for Oman, a top Asian football official confirmed, after more team members withdrew their asylum bid in...
Anger erupted in Bahrain following the U.S.-Israeli assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with protests breaking out across several cities on March 1 against the two allies'...
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Monday rejected demands by U.S. President Donald Trump for military support in the war against Iran and downplayed threats that such a stance by allies...
With a somber expression, understated attire and caramel hair tied back, she poses in her Paris apartment before the Lion and Sun emblem. The deposed queen of a dynasty widely criticized for its...
Dragging us all into a conflict far greater than us, in order to “avenge” Iran’s supreme leader, was not enough for Hezbollah.On Wednesday night, the militia launched a massive operation against...
The door of Tota Beirut, nestled in a narrow Mar Mikhael alley, opens onto a place that looks more like a living room than a bar.Entering is like crossing the threshold of a home where you are...
Israel pushed into new parts of southern Lebanon on Monday, deploying troops to target Hezbollah positions as it intensified its campaign against the Iran-backed militant group. In a briefing,...
Israel's military said on Monday it had launched a broad wave of strikes on the Iranian cities of Tehran, Shiraz and Tabriz, more than two weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic...
Iran has not requested a ceasefire, Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said on Monday according to the semi-official Students News Network (SNN) and wants to ensure that any end to the war with...
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai on Monday reiterated his support for President Joseph Aoun and army commander General Rodolph Haykal. Both have faced criticism recently Aoun for...
Oil prices jumped further above $100 Monday and Asian stocks mostly fell as the Iran war moved into a third week with both sides showing no sign of backing down and diplomats trying to ensure safe...
Neutralizing Iran could make crude oil much cheaper because the threat posed by Tehran imposed a "terror premium" that inflated global oil prices for decades, a top White House adviser...
"We rushed out of our home when the bombings started, without our clothes, papers, medicine, or my equipment. And here we are, left with nothing at all." Amine Hijazi, 42, a paraplegic...
The Israeli military said on Monday it had destroyed a plane used by Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at Tehran's Mehrabad airport overnight. It said the aircraft had been used by...
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday she had discussed with the United Nations the idea of freeing up transport of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz by replicating a deal that...
Missiles and drone attacks hit across the UAE on Monday, with a drone-related incident sparking a fuel tank fire near Dubai airport that disrupted travel, while a missile killed a civilian in Abu...
Oil loading operations have been suspended at the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah, two sources told Reuters on Monday, after a drone attack sparked a fire in the emirate's petroleum...
Inside the morgue at al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza, Ahmad Abu Ras first noticed three bodies missing their eyes.In mid-October, the first Palestinian bodies held in Israel were returned to the...
BEIRUT — U.S. President Donald Trump is considering taking control of Iran’s main oil terminal on Kharg Island, an operation that would require “the deployment of U.S. forces on the ground if...
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
