BEIRUT — Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) issued a statement Friday evening announcing that they dismantled a sex trafficking network exploiting young Syrian women in Rmeileh, in the Chouf...
BEIRUT — Habib Debs, an architect and urban planner who helped preserve much of the architectural and landscape heritage in Lebanon and the region, passed away Friday. He was 64. Debs may be best...
Turkish rescuers on Friday pulled a 45-year-old man from rubble nearly 12 days after a devastating quake claimed tens of thousands of lives. Teams have been finding...
BEIRUT — The Association of Banks in Lebanon issued a statement on Friday evening denouncing protestors who attacked and set fire to banks in Beirut on Thursday. "The funds needed to pay off your...
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...
An explosion wounded four American military personnel during a raid that killed a senior Islamic State (IS) group leader in Syria, the US military's Central Command said Friday....
BEIRUT — Marada Movement leader and unofficial candidate for the Lebanese presidency Sleiman Frangieh said Friday that he is "in favor of any consensus found in the interest of the country"...
Protests rocked Iran again overnight after a seeming slowdown in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed on Friday. The...
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai continues his efforts to bring together the 64 MPs of the various Christian communities in hopes of initiating a presidential election. During a religious summit...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese Civil Defense team on Friday found the remains of Lebanese citizen Mohammad al-Mohammad, who had been missing in Turkey following the deadly earthquake on Feb. 6, Lebanese...
The Lebanese Army reported on Friday that 10 Lebanese and two Syrian suspects were arrested in Haour Taala, in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, after a violent clash that killed three soldiers...
A goalkeeper at a top-flight Tunisian football club has reached Italy as a clandestine migrant, his club said Friday, as the dire economy pushes thousands into making similar journeys....
“At what dollar rate do you think the Lebanese will react? When the greenback hits LL100,000? LL1 million? LL20 million?” Mustapha Hamaoui tweeted this question a few days ago, one that is on...
The United Arab Emirates has opened a center housing a mosque, church and the country's first official synagogue with the aim of promoting interfaith coexistence in the Muslim nation....
An Iran court sentenced a police chief to 15 months in jail, the judiciary said Friday, after a newspaper linked him to the alleged rape of a girl that sparked bloody protests....
As of Friday, the Lebanese lira is trading above LL80,000 against the dollar, a drop from LL65,000 at the beginning of the week and LL42,500 on Jan. 1, 2023. The free fall of the national...
DUBAI — Lebanese Finance Minister Youssef Khalil said replacing central bank governor Riad Salameh, who has held the job for three decades, would be difficult and that his term may be extended,...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon decreased Friday afternoon, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline:...
Egypt's government said Friday it was "working around the clock" to secure the release of six Egyptian Coptic Christians who were kidnapped in conflict-ravaged Libya. "The...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati issued a statement Friday criticizing protestors who set fire to several banks in Beirut and Tripoli. In the statement, Mikati speculated...
BEIRUT — The prices of different packages of Arabic-style bread increased again on Friday in Lebanon as the country's spiraling lira traded at more than LL80,000 against the dollar on the parallel...
Saudi Arabia has joined the race to buy Manchester United ahead of Friday's nominal deadline, according to a report in Britain's Daily Telegraph , raising the stakes in what could be the most...
BEIRUT — Supporters of radical Salafi cleric Ahmad al-Assir, who is currently serving a de facto life sentence for his role in the deadly 2013 clashes in Saida’s Abra area, protested Friday in...
Five Syrian children and their parents died on Friday in a fire that struck a Turkish home they moved to after surviving last week's earthquake, local media reported. The...
BEIRUT — Demonstrators blocked roads in Tripoli Friday morning to protest against deteriorating living conditions, as the economic crisis continues to sink the lira to new all-time lows. People...
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces and rebels have clashed overnight in northwest Syria for the first time since an earthquake devastated the region on Feb. 6, the Syrian Observatory for Human...
“Please don't send any more clothes. We especially need infant milk,” said *Rami, a Beirut-based member of the charity Syrian Eyes. The young man, who asked to conceal his identity for fear of...
BEIRUT — Gasoline and household gas cylinder prices increased in Lebanon on Friday morning, while diesel and fuel oil for generators dropped, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy...
ANTAKYA/KAHRAMANMARAS — Rescue teams pulled two people alive from under collapsed buildings in Turkey on Friday, 11 days after an earthquake that has killed more than 43,000, left millions homeless...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday thanked his "Arab brothers" for aid supplied following last week's deadly earthquake, which saw countries in the region break with years of diplomatic...
It's finally done.More than a year and a half after its creation, Purpl — a Lebanese start-up and aggregator of money transfer companies — has officially launched its application.The launch was...
The death toll from the earthquake that has devastated parts of Turkey and Syria exceeded 41,000 on Friday as the United Nations appealed for $1 billion to address a growing humanitarian crisis....
Protesters attacked banks and blocked road s across Lebanon as the lira fell to a new record low on the parallel market yesterday. In the just two days since the lira fell to LL70,000 to 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
