WASHINGTON — Israel killed the Hamas militant group's third-in-command last week, the White House said Monday, after Israel previously said he had been targeted in a Gaza airstrike but did not...
BEIRUT — NGO World House of Lebanon and various official institutions have launched a media campaign using billboards across the country and an ad on MTV Lebanon that calls for people to “undo the...
MINA, Lebanon — Each year, residents of Mina, on the seaside just outside Tripoli, paint themselves black and gold, don grass skirts and rainbow clown wigs, and march through the stone alleyways...
Experts are anticipating an increase in the prices of imported goods , including two to 15 percent inflation on foodstuffs arriving in Lebanon, as a result of a threat made by the Iran-backed...
Dr. Jaber scans through the Al-Akhbar newspaper while smoking a cigar at a cafe terrace on Hamra Street. He follows the news in each of the four Arabic-language newspapers he buys every morning....
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Minister of Justice, Henri Khoury, and members of Parliament's Administration and Justice Committee kicked off a European tour with a trip to Italy, where they met with...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed strong condemnation regarding the detention of a team of Al Jazeera journalists, lead by correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul, by the Israeli army...
Israeli authorities denied the chief of UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) permission to enter the Gaza Strip on Monday, Reuters reports. The block was announced by UNRWA and the Egyptian...
The World Health Organization chief voiced alarm Monday after Israeli forces launched an operation at Gaza's largest hospital, al-Shifa, warning the fighting was "endangering health workers,...
Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera said Israeli forces had beaten and arrested its correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul during a raid on Monday on Gaza's largest hospital. ...
The two-state solution is back in vogue. Considered by the international community as the only realistic option to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly after the 1993 Oslo...
Half of Gazans are experiencing "catastrophic" hunger, with famine projected to hit the territory's north by May without urgent intervention, a UN-backed food security assessment said Monday....
After a 27-year hiatus, an Iraqi TV program banned by Saddam Hussein for its gritty depiction of life under sanctions has returned to portray drug lords thriving in the war-scarred country....
Millions of Iranians will travel to be with their families for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on Wednesday but economic troubles in the sanctions-hit country are weighing on the festivities....
The number of Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza has reached 250 since ground operations in the territory began in late October, according to the latest toll on the army's website on Monday....
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday that Israel's military campaign in Gaza had turned the territory into the world's biggest "open-air graveyard." "Gaza was...
The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has called on the international community to "step up its efforts to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...
A dispute between two families in the Beddaoui region of North Lebanon degenerated into armed clashes on Monday morning, leaving one person dead and another wounded, reports our correspondent in...
Israel's intelligence chief, Qatar's premier and Egyptian officials are expected to hold talks in Doha Monday on a potential Gaza truce and hostage exchange deal, a source with knowledge of the...
Israel's military on Monday called on Gazans to evacuate the area in and around the territory's largest hospital as battles raged at the complex crowded with patients and displaced people....
The health ministry in Gaza said Monday that at least 31,726 people have been killed in the territory during more than five months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants. ...
The Israeli army launched Monday an operation around Gaza's largest hospital, al-Shifa, with witnesses reporting airstrikes on the devastated neighborhood where it is located....
The al-Hol camp is the largest of two in northeastern Syria holding the families of Islamic State fighters. Run by US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), its population spiked at...
Ali is 12 and has survived things no child should see, spending half his life in what amounts to a prison camp for jihadist families in an arid corner of northeastern Syria. He knows not to dream...
Palestinians "need the bombs to stop," Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Sunday as he made an impassioned plea for a cease-fire in Gaza, speaking during a St Patrick's Day...
Anti-poverty charity Oxfam on Monday accused Israel of intentionally preventing the delivery of aid into Gaza during its war with Hamas, in violation of international humanitarian law....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday that civilians crammed into the southern Gaza Strip would be able to leave before troops enter in pursuit of Hamas militants....
22:47 Beirut Time That's it for today's live coverage of the war on Gaza, and its repercussions in Lebanon and the region. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow with more news...
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