An Israeli strike targeted the densely populated Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, on the outskirts of Saida, at around 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday night. According to a still-preliminary toll...
Former MP and minister Zaher al-Khatib died Tuesday at the age of 85, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) announced. He was elected Sunni MP for Iqlim al-Kharroub, in the Chouf, during the...
The Civil Servants’ League of the public administration has called for a strike "starting tomorrow, Wednesday," and a sit-in in front of the VAT building headquarters on Friday, Nov. 21...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met with Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on Tuesday, a little over a week after his release from prison after nearly a decade...
BEIRUT — The Interior and Foreign Ministries announced on Tuesday that it has so far recorded 101,355 applications from Lebanese residing abroad to register for voting in the May 2026 parliamentary...
One of the major stops during Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon will be the Hospital of the Cross in Jal al-Dib (Metn), known for treating patients with mental illnesses free of charge. His visit...
On Tuesday, Donald Trump welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) with full honors for his first visit to Washington since the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The U.S....
The Lebanese Army carried out a targeted strike at around midday on Tuesday on the mountainous area of Taraya, Baalbek (northern Bekaa). It targeted the homes of suspects who were the subject of...
Several websites, including social network X and the ChatGPT chatbot access page, were disrupted on Tuesday due to a technical issue affecting U.S.-based online service provider Cloudflare....
It’s 3 p.m., and the kitchen staff and sous-chef, dressed in black work uniforms, are already busy in the kitchen. Tarek Alameddine, lost in thought with a nearly finished cigarette, sits alone at...
One man was killed and three others injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli military and ambulance service said. The military said in...
BEIRUT — “Coastline for All” campaign held a sit-in Tuesday outside the Public Works and Transport Ministry in Hazmieh, east of Beirut, protesting what activists called the ministry’s failure to...
BEIRUT — Saudi envoy Yazid bin Farhan, currently on a state visit to Beirut, went Tuesday afternoon to Ain al-Tineh to meet with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, according to the state-run...
In line with the digitization of various services in Lebanese administration procedures, Lebanese Foreign Minister Joe Rajji announced Tuesday that his ministry too would start digitizing the...
While the list of demands presented by the U.S. Treasury delegation that visited Lebanon last week to cut off Hezbollah’s funding sources did not come as a surprise to most Lebanese officials, one...
On Nov. 13, 153 Palestinians from Gaza arrived in South Africa on an "Al-Majd Europe" flight, many of whom were unaware of their final destination, which was Johannesburg. Here's what...
SOUTH LEBANON — Two people were killed Tuesday in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, according to our correspondent and the Health Ministry. This morning, Ali Ibrahim Cheaito, a surveyor...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Army Commander Rodolph Haykal's meetings with American officials, scheduled for Wednesday in Washington, were canceled, according to a military source who spoke to...
In an extraordinary vote — 13 in favor, no vetoes, with Russia and China abstaining — the U.N. Security Council on Monday night approved Resolution 2803, endorsing the U.S. plan for Gaza after two...
BEIRUT — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a letter Monday from Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, addressed to the U.S. administration, according to the official Saudi Press...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday called on both local and international investors to invest in Lebanon during the “Beirut One” conference, aiming to strengthen the partnership between the...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is on the verge of winning his bet. Like Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil and Hezbollah, he did not want the diaspora to take part in the upcoming...
A European human rights nonprofit on Tuesday accused TotalEnergies of complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearances allegedly carried out by government soldiers in Mozambique,...
BEIRUT — Hamas criticized the U.N. Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, calling it an “international trusteeship” over Gaza and denouncing what it described as a “brutal war of...
It is impossible to discuss the Taif Agreement and its implementation without considering the role of Christian groups in all their diversity.As statements continue to be issued — including those...
The world is facing a deepening hunger crisis with resources falling far short of needs, the United Nations World Food Programme warned on Tuesday, citing sharp declines in humanitarian funding....
Palestinian foreign ministry welcomes U.N. Gaza vote, urges immediate implementation.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Turkey on Wednesday and join planned talks there with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a Turkish source said on Tuesday. Earlier, Zelenskiy said...
00:04 Beirut Time We are closing the live blog for today. See you tomorrow. 23:55 Beirut Time Residents of the Ain al-Hilweh camp took to the streets in a...
L’Œuvre d’Orient, a French Catholic organization, released a report Monday quantifying the country's debt from 2014 to 2023 to 254 semi-private schools, hospitals, orphanages and care centers...
ALEPPO — Nearly seven months after the bloody events that took place in western Syria in early March 2025, a historic trial opened Tuesday morning at the Aleppo Palace of Justice. According to our...
U.S. lawmakers are expected Tuesday to advance a bill requiring the release of government records on millionaire sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, in defiance of Donald Trump's attempts to keep a...
As he is welcomed at the White House by U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), begins a visit to Washington expected to advance the sale...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2025Some key things to watch today:10 a.m.: UCIP Lebanon holds a roundtable marking its 25th anniversary and...
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
