Slogans against the government rang out Tuesday during gatherings held in several Iranian cities to pay tribute to protesters killed during the bloody crackdown on January’s protest movement,...
BEIRUT — The government’s decision to raise public-sector wages, alongside new measures to finance the increase, has triggered renewed street protests and raised concerns among experts,...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who has been in Lebanon since Monday, visited the naval school on Tuesday at the Jounieh naval base, where he was greeted by Army Commander Gen. Rodolphe...
A Palestinian child died after stepping on a mine near an Israeli military camp in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, with an Israeli defense ministry source...
For Muslims in Saudi Arabia the first day of Ramadan will fall on Wednesday, the kingdom's royal court announced, while the office of Iran's supreme leader said the holy month would begin...
Foreign Minister Gideon Saar will represent Israel at the inaugural meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" later this week in Washington, his office said on...
Like an echo from the past. Waving the plain green flags of the Gaddafi era, tens of thousands gathered on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026 at the cemetery in Bani Walid, western Libya, to pay tribute to the...
BEIRUT — Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, acknowledged that the Israeli army’s presence at five points in southern Lebanon was not part of the November 2024 cease-fire agreement, Lebanese...
The office of Shiite cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, as well as the Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdellatif Deriane of Dar al-Fatwa, both announced on Tuesday that the first day of the...
Palestinians organized another sit-in today in Beirut in front of UNRWA headquarters, to protest the decision announced in mid-January to reduce the activities of the United Nations agency in its...
Nothing about her betrays that she discovered cooking almost by accident, having never spent a minute at the stove in her childhood. In her kitchen, Dana Hallani stirs her mushroom orzo...
Fida Bizri was born in Beirut in April 1975, just as the city was spiraling into civil war, long referred to as "the events." Fifty years later, she looks back at the little girl who grew...
BEIRUT — Agriculture Minister Nizar Hani said in an interview with the Russian news agency Sputnik published on Tuesday that during his visit to southern border villages, he noticed that the...
Israel could soon build a new civilian airport in the country’s north, about 50 kilometers from the Lebanese border.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said late Sunday that his...
Veteran U.S. civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of the nation's most influential Black voices, died peacefully Tuesday morning, his family said in a statement. He was 84....
After a day of scattered protests across the country, a new demonstration was held Tuesday evening in Riad Solh Square, in downtown Beirut. Launched on social media by the “You Stink” collective,...
The debate over selling Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank)’s gold reserve — rekindled in recent months with the drafting of the Financial Restructuring and the Restitution of Deposits draft Law...
Makes about 20 pieces. Finely chop the herbs and fennel. Dice the zucchinis and onion. Add the flour, baking powder, salt, pepper, and water to the vegetables and herbs. Mix until you get a...
Sauté the onions and garlic with olive oil. Sweat them until nicely colored. Add the pancetta for 5 minutes. Add the peeled tomatoes. Salt and pepper to taste. Cover and simmer over low heat for...
After a media and political career launched alongside assassinated Druze leader Kamal Joumblatt and later continued with his son and former Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) chief Walid Joumblatt,...
Appointed on Tuesday to succeed Jack Lang as head of the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) in Paris, Anne-Claire Legendre is a seasoned diplomat whose expertise on North Africa and the Middle East is...
"Dangerous policy of impoverishment"; "broken promises"; "increases funded from citizens’ pockets": The day after the Cabinet meeting, anger was already brewing on...
The association Animals Lebanon rescued a four-week-old lion cub in Baalbeck (Bekaa) on Friday, which was being illegally held by a private individual. The investigation, which began in early...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam traveled to Tripoli Tuesday morning to oversee the implementation of the emergency plan for buildings at risk of collapse, a week after the collapse of a building in Bab...
No rapid military solution exists. That, in essence, is what the United States has recognized in handling the Iranian issue over recent weeks, after the initial impulse to strike Tehran directly...
Israel approved on Sunday, Feb. 15, an official land registration plan in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Authority and numerous NGOs have since decried the plan as "a de facto...
Nothing has changed in substance, although more than a month has passed. No viable option exists to resolve the Iranian issue: no surgical strike could shift the balance, no Venezuelan-style...
What began as a focused crackdown by the Interior Ministry on violations by motorcyclists and motorists is now extending to speeding.The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces (ISF),...
President Donald Trump warned Iran of potential consequences should it fail to strike a deal with the United States, as negotiators prepare for the latest round of talks in Geneva on Tuesday....
22:10 Beirut Time Cardinal Parolin: Holy See will not participate in 'Board of Peace' The Vatican will not take part in Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza, its secretary of...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:Updates on US-Iran talks.Responses to the Lebanese...
The Cabinet met on Monday, Feb. 16 at the Baabda Presidential Palace, and decided on the issue of wage and allowance increases for active and retired civil servants, including employees of public...
If Hezbollah no longer controls the area south of the Litani River, would it even be possible for the group to be seeking presence inside Israel? Last month, an Israeli minister accused the group...
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
