BEIRUT — Finance Minister Yassine Jaber and Parliamentary Finance Committee President Ibrahim Kanaan both announced on Friday their departure for Washington, where they are to meet with...
KHAN YOUNIS — The Gaza Strip is strewn with undetonated explosives from tens of thousands of Israeli air strikes, leaving the territory "uninhabitable," according to the U.S. government....
TRIPOLI — The residents of Beddawi Palestinian Refugee Camp, north of Tripoli, woke up on Friday to slogans written on the walls and streets of the camp's neighborhoods, protesting the recent...
The Lebanese Army has increased its deployment in the South in recent months, confiscating Hezbollah weapons and dismantling its positions under the terms of a U.S.- and France-brokered cease-fire...
MOSCOW — Iran believes reaching an agreement on its nuclear program with the United States is possible as long as Washington is realistic, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on the eve of a second...
As hunger, starvation and malnutrition plague Palestinians suffering from seven weeks of total blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel, the Israeli army has said its Golani Brigade soldiers fighting in...
Hamas appears more isolated than ever. As the movement prepares to respond to the latest Israeli cease-fire proposal for the war in Gaza, popular demonstrations that began on March 24 have...
Diplomatic visits are intensifying ahead of the second round of talks this Saturday on the Iranian nuclear program. On Thursday, Steve Witkoff, the White House's special envoy for the Middle East...
BEIRUT — An Israeli drone strike targeting a car near Saida Friday morning killed Mohammad Jaafar Maneh Abdallah, a senior Hezbollah official, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent on the...
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday cast doubt over the intentions of the United States a day before a second round of nuclear talks with Washington. "Although we have...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Cabinet on Thursday held its first-ever session dedicated to discussing the state’s monopoly over weapons and the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, a small...
The legislative process of the bill that amends, once again, the legal framework governing the lifting of banking secrecy is currently proceeding smoothly, following the pace set by the...
On Jan. 9, 2025, former army chief Joseph Aoun was elected president of Lebanon with 99 votes out of 128 in the second round of a thirteenth parliamentary session held since Michel Aoun's (no...
JERUSALEM — Israeli airstrikes hit around 40 targets across the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military said on Friday, hours after Hamas rejected an Israeli cease-fire offer that it said...
BEIRUT — The Israeli air force killed one person in a drone strike on a car near the coastal city of Saida, in southern Lebanon, on Friday morning, according to an update from the Health Ministry....
Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank) Governor Karim Souhaid's silence since his inauguration speech on April 4 has fueled speculation. Just days ahead of the spring meetings of the International...
BEIRUT — Labor Minister Mohammad Haidar left Beirut for Cairo on Friday, to participate in the 51st annual Arab Labor Conference, where he is heading a delegation from the ministry that includes...
U.S. air strikes on the Ras Issa oil port on the Red Sea killed 74 people, mainly workers at the port, according to an updated toll from Yemeni Health Ministry on Friday. Health Ministry...
I didn’t think there was necessarily a pattern to the Breakfast in Bed picks this week, until I realized – staring at my hundreds of open tabs and listening to the constant whir of traffic outside...
The report published by Le Figaro a few days ago about the dismantling of a logistical support network for Hezbollah in Europe risks further exposing the party, which the Lebanese state has vowed...
The Lebanese Army seized rockets and rocket launchers on Friday in the Rashaya region, in the Bekaa, and arrested eight individuals suspected of smuggling, the army announced on its website. This...
19:50 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage of events for today, thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis. Goodnight. 19:49...
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