Damascus and Washington are working on a "security agreement" with Israel, as part of a plan to pacify the predominantly Druze province of Sweida in southern Syria, according to Syrian...
The United Nations and a long line of countries on Tuesday denounced Israel's attack on Qatar last week, decrying a "dangerous escalation" and demanding "accountability."...
The Cabinet, chaired by Nawaf Salam at the Grand Serail, began around 3 p.m. and was marked, two hours later, by the withdrawal of Justice Minister Adel Nassar. Nassar left at the moment when...
Israel launched its long-expected ground assault on Gaza City at dawn Tuesday, a day after winning backing from its top ally, the United States, despite mounting international alarm. A United...
The ordinary general assembly of mobile operator Alfa convened on Tuesday in the presence of Telecommunications Minister Charles Hage and elected the members of its board of directors for a...
Justice Minister Adel Nassar on Tuesday, Sept. 16, the day marking the start of the judicial year, addressed judges on the occasion of the implementation of new judicial appointments. In a...
The Lebanese police announced Tuesday the arrest of two individuals involved in a network falsifying official Lebanese and Syrian stamps. According to the statement, "information was...
More than 10,000 children need treatment for acute malnutrition in Gaza City, where the Israeli army launched a major ground offensive on Tuesday, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)...
Syrian government forces have pulled heavy weapons out of the country's south, where neighbouring Israel has demanded a demilitarized zone, a military official said Tuesday. "Syrian...
A young man from the Habchi family was shot and injured overnight Monday into Tuesday in Dbayeh while he was in his vehicle, according to several media outlets. According to the state-run National...
The 21st Arab Media Forum — not to be confused with the Arab Media Summit — will take place in Beirut under the patronage of President Joseph Aoun on Oct. 29 and 30. This was announced on the...
The Cabinet, chaired by Nawaf Salam at the Grand Serail, began around 3 p.m. and was marked, two hours later, by the withdrawal of Justice Minister Adel Nassar. Nassar left the meeting when...
On the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, several organizations advocating for the right of return for Palestinian refugees – Thabit, the Popular Congress of...
Industry Minister Joe Issa al-Khoury kicked off a two-day forum on "green" investments, held at the Mövenpick in Beirut. The event is organized by the United Nations Industrial...
While some local media reported this weekend a possible visit by Pope Leo XIV to Lebanon next November, none of the official sources contacted by L'Orient-Le Jour on Monday confirmed it. A...
Neife Awad, 31, takes off her sunglasses to reveal two empty eye sockets. Around them, a constellation of scars marks the moment when a booby-trapped pager exploded in her face, plunging her into...
The Israeli army said Tuesday it struck a military site belonging to the Houthi rebels at the port of Hodeida in Yemen, after calling for an evacuation of the area. "A short while ago, the...
It was around 9 a.m. in Gaza on Sept. 10 when a coordinator from the NGO Première Urgence Internationale received a message from the Israeli army ordering the evacuation of a building in Gaza City....
BEIRUT — The Public Works and Transport Ministry announced the completion of lighting work in both directions of the Bhamdoun tunnel (Aley) in a statement published Tuesday. The tunnel is located...
Deir Attieh stretches at the foot of the hill where the immense statue of Hafez al-Assad once stood.When his son Bashar’s rule collapsed on Dec. 8, 2024, residents from nearby villages came to...
Was the Little Prince murdered? Based on this idea, Michel Bussi starts an original story in his book "Code 612. Who Killed the Little Prince?" published in 2021 by Presses de la Cité....
Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani announced on Tuesday a plan backed by Jordan and the United States to restore calm to Druze-majority Sweida province, which witnessed deadly violence in...
It’s not every day that a sitting prime minister engages in a more or less free-flowing conversation with the media live on air. But Nawaf Salam played along. L’Orient-Le Jour closed the first...
BEIRUT — The Cabinet meeting, presided over by Nawaf Salam at the Grand Serail, began around 3 p.m., according to the National News Agency. On the agenda, the government is set to continue...
Cinema legend Robert Redford, a screen great both in front of and behind the camera whose career spanned six decades, died early on Tuesday morning at his home in Utah, U.S. media reported. He was...
The Israeli military warned on Tuesday it was poised to strike the Houthi-held Yemeni port of Hodeida, urging people and ships in the area to evacuate immediately. "In the coming hours, a...
During the latest Cabinet meeting at Baabda Palace, the government welcomed the army’s plan to establish a monopoly on arms, without clarifying whether the wording amounted to an actual...
The first people charged with supporting Palestine Action after the UK government banned it as a "terror" group appeared in court in London on Tuesday. Hundreds of people have been...
Over recent months, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stepped up his offensive against the Republican People’s Party (CHP), with a wave of arrests and legal proceedings. In 2024, and for the first...
Under U.S. pressure, Syria is accelerating talks with Israel for a security pact that Damascus hopes will reverse Israel's recent seizures of its land but that would fall far short of a full...
The head of Hezbollah's media office, Ali Daher, announced on Tuesday the plans for the first commemoration of the assassination of the former secretary-general of the party, Hassan Nasrallah,...
The U.N. Human Rights Chief called on Israel to immediately stop its ground assault on Gaza City that got underway on Tuesday, saying that evidence was mounting of war crimes, crimes against...
Syrian authorities announced Tuesday the creation of an "interior security chief" position for the southern city of Sweida, entrusted to a local Druze leader, in an attempt to ease...
The appeal trial of Salim Berrada, dubbed the "Tinder rapist" by media, opens Tuesday in France, a year and a half after he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for raping or sexually...
An official of the United Nations' children's agency said on Tuesday it was "inhumane" to expect hundreds of thousands of children to leave Gaza City as camps further south were...
When Radio Liban host Wafa Khochen first heard Yara Lapidus' Arabic adaptation of the Bowie hit "The Man Who Sold the World," she was enamoured, listening to the track on repeat....
France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian prisons for alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said — a move that remains divisive a decade after the 2015 attacks in...
BEIRUT — Kataeb leader and MP Samy Gemayel officially thanked the head of state, Joseph Aoun, for his recent remarks ahead of the 43rd anniversary of former President Bachir Gemayel, who was killed...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday condemned the Israeli attack in Qatar and called on all countries to do the same, at the opening of an urgent debate at the Human...
The personal data of about 1.5 million people was posted online following a cyberattack on a Swedish IT systems provider, Swedish prosecutors announced Tuesday. The number of affected individuals...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Qatar's leader Tuesday to ask the Gulf country to stay on as a mediator in Gaza talks, a week after Israeli warplanes attacked Hamas leaders in the...
BEIRUT — Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny announced from Baabda that the contract for rehabilitating Qleiaat Airport in North Lebanon will be awarded "within the first three...
Over 50 people were killed in a series of Haitian gang attacks last week, a local human rights NGO reported Monday, in the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation's latest gruesome mass killing. The...
BEIRUT — The owner of the vessel linked to the explosion at the Port of Beirut in 2020 was arrested on Sept. 5 at Sofia Airport, the spokesperson for the capital's court announced on Tuesday....
BEIRUT — Tripoli MP and former minister Ashraf Rifi praised Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar and the Internal Security Forces (ISF), stating that the agency has "fully regained its efficiency,...
The Israeli military launched a ground assault on Gaza City overnight Tuesday, with troops advancing into the centre of Gaza's largest urban hub, a military official told journalists. "We...
Colonel Suzanne al-Hajj, prosecuted in 2018 for fabricating false evidence against playwright Ziad Itani of collaboration with Israel, has once again stepped into the media spotlight. Acquitted in...
BEIRUT — Traffic on the highway stretching from Nahr Ibrahim to Madfoun will be modified due to construction starting today at 11 a.m., except on Saturdays and Sundays, according to a statement...
United Nations investigators on Tuesday accused Israel of committing "genocide" in Gaza in a bid to "destroy the Palestinians", blaming Israel's prime minister and other top...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing her diaries with L'Orient Today during the...
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
