BEIRUT — With the presidential election deadline looming overhead, Parliament met Tuesday for a legislative session. The deputies examined the draft law to end Lebanon's banking secrecy policy....
Lebanon's multidimensional crisis has reversed the country's progress in human development. According to UNDP statistics released in September, the country has experienced the sharpest decline in...
It is said that army chief General Joseph Aoun “smells of gunpowder.”He knows the land like the back of his hand. He served in all corners of the country before taking over the leadership of the...
BEIRUT — ANKARA — Turkey's main opposition party has applied to the top court to annul an article added to the penal code that sets jail time for spreading "disinformation" as part of a new media...
Leaders of Hamas will visit Syria on Wednesday, its first high-profile trip there since the Palestinian Islamist group departed Damascus more than 10 years ago. In June, two Hamas officials told...
BEIRUT — Before Lebanon's government approved a US-brokered deal settling a decades-long maritime boundary dispute with Israel, the powerful Hezbollah scrutinized the final draft line by line and...
BEIRUT — Lebanese MPs passed on Tuesday the law instituting a World Bank loan of $150 million to Lebanon to finance wheat imports, to be spent over nine months to help ensure the country's food...
NEW YORK — French cement maker Lafarge pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a US charge that it made payments to groups designated as terrorists by the United States, including Islamic State, according to...
CAIRO — Lebanese President Michel Aoun called on TotalEnergies to quickly start drilling in Block 9 in the Mediterranean sea. In a Tuesday statement, the Lebanese Presidency said Aoun met with a...
BEIRUT — MP Michel Douaihy (Zghorta) announced Tuesday that he has quit the Forces of Change Bloc "in its current form," the MP said in a tweet. Lebanon's May 2022 parliamentary election resulted...
BEIRUT — The Higher Judicial Council, which administers Lebanon's court system, has not issued a decision on appointing an alternate judge in the port blast investigation, or on appointing members...
Iran has promised to provide Russia with surface-to-surface missiles, in addition to more drones, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters, a move that is likely to anger...
KYIV — Ukraine's foreign minister said on Tuesday he was submitting a proposal to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to formally cut diplomatic ties with Tehran after a wave of Russian attacks using...
KUWAIT — Kuwait's crown prince, during a tearful speech at Tuesday's opening of parliament, urged the legislative and executive branches to put an end to prolonged feuds and "petty matters" that...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Saade Chami called on Lebanese politicians to "respect the constitutional obligations," by holding the presidential election and forming a government, in...
BEIRUT — Three years into one of the worst financial crises to hit any country since the 1850s, Lebanon’s Ministry of Labor has launched an online platform for citizens to find jobs, albeit not...
ANKARA — Turkey's main opposition party will apply to the Constitutional Court to request annulment of a media law that would jail people for spreading "disinformation" and which it has described...
DUBAI — An Iranian rock climber said on Tuesday her veil had fallen by mistake while competing in an international competition in South Korea, after she was widely assumed to have expressed support...
AMMAN — Turkish troops deployed Tuesday to an area in northwestern Syria to try to halt fighting between rival rebel factions opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses and rebel forces...
BEIRUT — The head of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil said on Monday that it would be "a crazy act" if Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati did not form a new government before the end of...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new slightly increased fuel prices Tuesday morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL748,000, up by...
BEIRUT — The only Forces of Change MP, Ibrahim Mneimneh (Beirut II), was voted out of the Parliament's Finance and Budget Committee during a parliamentary session on Tuesday to elect new...
WASHINGTON – A Canadian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States on Monday for providing assistance to the Islamic State group in Syria. Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 37, of...
RAMALLAH — The Palestinians on Tuesday hailed Australia’s decision to reverse its recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital despite fierce criticism by Israel. “We welcome Australia’s...
The United States warned Monday it would take action against companies and nations working with Iran's drone program after Russia used the imports for deadly kamikaze strikes in Kyiv. "Anyone...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . “The Oct. 17 movement has not come to an end. It is a long-term struggle," a protester said yesterday as demonstrators...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
