BEIRUT — A man was arrested on Wednesday after being filmed beating at least three children in a field in the Ghazzeh region, in West Bekaa, the Internal Security Forces announced. Here’s what we...
BEIRUT — In Lebanon, the controversy surrounding the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses played out in the context of the final years of the country’s 1975-90 Civil War in light of...
AMMAN/WASHINGTON — Syria on Wednesday denied kidnapping or holding a U.S. journalist who disappeared a decade ago a week after President Joe Biden demanded that Damascus let him go home....
BEIRUT — A woman who was allegedly burned alive by her husband last week, while she was five months pregnant, died of her injuries on Wednesday in a hospital in Tripoli (North Lebanon), her uncle...
BEIRUT — More than three months after the sinking of a boat carrying would-be migrants off the coast of Qalamoun in North Lebanon, a submarine is due to arrive today at the Beirut port, before...
Error, negligence, incompetence. What really happened during last week’s Middle East Airlines Madrid-Beirut flight, whose captain was Abed al-Hout, son of MEA board of directors chairman Mohammad...
BEIRUT — The Constitutional Council on Wednesday denied claims of political interference in the appeals still under consideration against the 2022 parliamentary election results. Earlier Wednesday,...
BEIRUT — Some 350 judges agreed to go on strike after the central bank last month walked back an enigmatic decision to pay their salaries at the LL8,000 exchange rate just weeks after announcing...
BEIRUT — The Cancer Support Fund at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, received a donation Wednesday of more than $1.4 million worth of cancer medications, which are expected to...
BEIRUT — Statistics show a surge in suicide and murder rates and decline in theft crimes in the first seven months of 2022 compared to the same period of the previous year, according to...
May 1916: Thuraya al-Hafez was only five years old. A wind of Arab independence was shaking the Ottoman Empire and disturbing the balance in the region. Hafez’s father, Amin Lutfi al-Hafez, worked...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s government approved Wednesday a decision to demolish what remains of the Beirut grain silos’ crumbling northern block while preserving the southern block, Forces of Change MP...
The past weekend can be seen as a time of radicalizing positions in the run-up to the presidential elections.With a fortnight to go before the deadline for electing a new president (starting Aug....
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati met Wednesday in Baabda to discuss the Cabinet formation, a mission that has been dragging on for months, with Mikati...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Federal Bank on Tuesday dropped its charges against Hamra branch hostage taker Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, his attorney Rami...
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
