AKKAR — Fighting broke out on Tuesday between the rival "Ghazaoui" and 'Khamis' clans in the village of Awada, near the border area of Wadi Khaled between Lebanon and Syria. The...
BEIRUT — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced on Tuesday she would visit Lebanon the next day amid her "great concern following the end of the truce in Gaza caused by Israeli...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held an hours-long phone call on Tuesday during which Putin agreed to a partial 30-day ceasefire of attacks on energy infrastructure...
BEIRUT — In a meeting with the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon, Imran Riza, Minister of Finance Yassin Jaber renewed his call for reconstruction assistance, emphasizing its...
The head of the Lebanese Forces (LF) Samir Geagea called on Tuesday to "protect" Lebanon and to "continue building a real state at a time when the region is in turmoil." Israeli...
BEIRUT — Judge Hani Helmi al-Hajjar, the deputy government commissioner at the military court, sent a letter to the head of the Anti-Cybercrime Bureau, directing him to conduct a preliminary...
"Thank God, no one was inside when the strikes hit." Speaking by phone, Mohammad Chahine tries to find a silver lining amid the barrage of strikes that targeted his village in southern...
“We are at a stage of ‘to be or not to be,’ working for our interest as a sect.” Last Thursday, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri — the spiritual leader of Syria’s minority Druze sect — delivered his most...
AKKAR — Fighting broke out on Monday evening between Palestinians living in the Beddawi refugee camp and Lebanese residents who are members of Wadi al-Nahleh's Arab tribes. The Lebanese Army...
European Council chief Antonio Costa on Tuesday called for an end to the renewed violence in Gaza, after Israel unleashed its most intense strikes since a truce established two months ago....
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced Tuesday that a general conference on investment will be held in Beirut in the fall, following a meeting with a delegation from the Lebanese-Saudi...
Nearly 13,000 Syrians have fled to northern Lebanon from the massacres on the Syrian coast in early March, Lebanese authorities said, AFP reported. According to a report consulted by AFP, the...
The announcement was unprecedented. If carried out, the dismissal of the head of the Shin Bet would be the first in the history of Israel. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and former Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir welcomed Tuesday’s Israeli assault on Gaza, which has so far killed over 400...
A new twist in the French investigation into Riad Salameh’s assets: The Central Bank’s Special Investigation Commission (SIC) recently asked Lebanese banks to lift bank secrecy on the accounts of...
Antoine Kerbaj has folded his giant wings. At the end of a life filled with great roles and tirades, the great actor, whose presence and elocution made the stage vibrate and the screens burst into...
Qatar, one of the three mediating countries between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, firmly condemned the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight, stating that they could...
Physical beauty is a detail, certainly, but in the case of Shaha Raphael, it was impossible not to notice how the beauty of the objects she created perfectly reflected her own. It was the same...
An arrest warrant was issued on Monday for a judge accused of accepting bribes while performing his duties. I.Z., a former first investigative judge in the Bekaa, was arrested under the orders of...
The Beirut Art Film Festival (BAFF), in collaboration with the American University of Beirut's (AUB) Archaeological Museum, is honoring Yemen's rich cultural heritage through an evening of...
The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, expressed concern about the "status quo" in southern Lebanon prevailing between Israel and Lebanon, during...
Former Lebanese President Michel Aoun warned Tuesday that Lebanon faces "great danger" due to three key challenges, particularly the risk of further escalation along the already volatile...
Israeli forces arrested Palestinian journalist Latifeh Abdellatif in Jerusalem on Sunday after raiding her home. A contributor to the online outlet Middle East Eye, she is accused of...
BEIRUT — Former Energy Minister Walid Fayyad appeared before North Lebanon Investigative Judge Samaranda Nassar for questioning in the Msailha Dam case, local television station MTV reported. The...
BEIRUT — After a meeting Tuesday in Maarab with Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, Elie Mahfoud, head of Sovereign Front for Lebanon bloc and a lawyer close to the LF, accused Hezbollah of being...
All fuel prices in Lebanon have decreased, according to the latest schedule published Tuesday by the Ministry of Energy and Water, a trend that has continued since the end of February. Here are...
“The political game has become much easier,” said MP affiliated with the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), stressing that the party leader, Bassil is delighted to have returned to the opposition...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Foreign Affairs Minister Joe Rajji said Monday that the return of "Syrian refugees [in Lebanon] is now imperative," speaking from Brussels during a donor conference organized...
New U.S. airstrikes targeted Yemen on Tuesday morning, including two areas in the capital, Sanaa, according to the Houthi news agency Saba and Al-Massira TV. Other raids hit the Bajel region in...
Hamas is "working with international mediators" to "curb Israel's aggression," a leader of the Palestinian militant group told AFP on Tuesday after a night of intense...
The escalation of violence along Lebanon's northeastern border with Syria on Sunday further complicated the security situation in Lebanon. At least seven soldiers from the new Syrian army were...
Hamas on Tuesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using the war as a "lifeline" amid his political troubles and deciding to sacrifice the hostages still alive in Gaza....
22:52 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage for today. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis. Goodnight. 22:11 Beirut Time...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, March 18, 2025 Some key things to watch today:Developments on the Lebanese-Syrian border after a cease-fire came into...
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 413 people in Gaza, in the deadliest attack since the cease-fire came into effect on Jan. 19, Gaza's Health Ministry announced Tuesday morning. Hamas accused...
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
