The secretary-general of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said Friday that his party would not give up "its strength" and was "ready to confront" Israel, while the question of...
Renewed clashes erupted on Friday at the entrance to Syria's southern city of Sweida between Bedouin factions and Druze fighters, an AFP correspondent and a war monitor said. About 200 Bedouin...
At least 41 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks carried out across the Gaza Strip since Friday morning, according to medical sources cited by Al Jazeera. The civil defense...
The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, traveled to Washington this week as Israel is reportedly seeking the Trump administration’s help in organizing the forced departure of...
A 13-year-old Palestinian child, Amr Ali Qabha, was killed after being shot by Israeli forces in the locality of Ya’bad, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian...
On an official visit to Beirut on Friday, Greek Defense Minister Nikólaos Dendias reiterated Greece's commitment to support Lebanon, notably through increased assistance to the Lebanese Army....
Clashes broke out Friday between Palestinians and the Israeli army during a march in the occupied West Bank to protest against a new illegal outpost set up by Israeli settlers. "We came to...
The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Friday accused Israel of blocking a deal in talks for a temporary cease-fire and the release of hostages in Gaza. Negotiators from both...
Nearly 80,000 people have been displaced due to community violence that has left almost 600 dead in the majority Druze city of Sweida and its surrounding region in southern Syria, according to the...
A security guard was shot and killed in Jbeil on Thursday afternoon, a source from the Internal Security Forces told L'Orient Today on Friday, noting that "the identity of the killer has...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called for a joint meeting of the Parliament Bureau and the Administration and Justice Committee to be held at 1 p.m. on Monday in Ain al-Tineh, as stated in an...
Ten detainees escaped from an Internal Security Forces (ISF) detention center in the Kfar al-Joz area of Nabatieh (southern Lebanon) on Thursday night around 10:30 p.m., our correspondent reports....
MP Ibrahim Kanaan stated on Friday from the Maronite Patriarchate headquarters in Bkirki that the bill on banking sector reform, currently under review by a parliamentary subcommittee, will be...
U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed that Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian was indeed injured in an Israeli strike in June, according to sources cited Friday by the American network CBS...
The army command issued a statement on Friday, declaring that the troops "will not allow any breach of security or civil peace." "The exceptional circumstances the country is going...
During a sit-in organized by young protesters in the courtyard of the Grand Mansouri Mosque in Tripoli, MP Ashraf Rifi sounded the alarm about the prison situation in Lebanon, denouncing prison...
Qatar, Egypt and the United States have prepared a new version of a cease-fire agreement for Gaza, which includes Israeli concessions on specific points and is expected to allow progress, according...
Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rassamni conducted an inspection visit to Tripoli's port in northern Lebanon on Friday to review its facilities. These include the ship maintenance...
A large fire broke out in the forested areas and olive groves on the outskirts of the towns of Beino and Beit Malat in Akkar on Friday, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the...
For the first time in a while, I have a pretty free weekend, and I am looking forward to finally getting to all the quirkier articles I've been saving, rediscovering the book I abandoned at...
Comments made by the daughter of a senior Hezbollah military commander killed in September 2024, Ibrahim Aqil, have sparked a wave of backlash on social media. In a recent interview with...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Friday that he hoped for a "speedy cease-fire" in war-torn Gaza, Berlin said. Merz also...
The DJ was the first to warm up the crowd, spinning beats that had fans swaying in their seats and sneaking closer to the stage. It felt like a party already. But then, the music stopped. The...
Two of the most senior Christian leaders in Jerusalem traveled to Gaza on Friday after Israeli fire killed three at the Palestinian territory's only Catholic church, provoking international...
The past week has been a bloody week in Lebanon marked by a series of Israeli strikes across the Bekaa and southern Lebanon, which killed 16 people since Monday, including civilians and Hezbollah...
Under a sun-worn parasol, three men in swimsuits wait for the day's rare customers to take them out to sea off the coast of Mina, Tripoli. It's an opportunity for them to discuss the recent...
The Health Ministry said that it opened an investigation “into the manufacturer involved in some dietary supplements that have been reported by several media outlets as non-compliant with...
Mix the eggs and salt, and beat lightly. Add the flour and knead thoroughly until you get a smooth dough. Divide the dough into 14 equal parts, roll them into balls, then cover them with a clean,...
Add the spices, onion, tomato paste, and sweet pepper paste to the meat and knead everything thoroughly. Shape into small balls the size of a ping-pong ball. Cut the eggplants into thick slices,...
In a meeting at the Lebanese University’s headquarters in the Mathaf area, Beirut, President Joseph Aoun said that he wanted “the Lebanese University to be able to provide education for all the...
The spiritual leaders of the Sunni and Druze communities in Lebanon, Abdel Latif Derian and Sami Abi al-Mona, called on Friday, during a phone call, to "avoid falling into the trap of...
Long considered an echo chamber for the region’s conflicts, Lebanon lived up to that reputation again this week when sectarian clashes in Sweida had several echoes across the country. The...
While Hezbollah was quick to condemn the violence, questions are being raised about how these events might affect the party. Will they bolster its position, or, on the contrary, push it to move...
The timing of the visit was no coincidence. On July 16, Emirati President Mohammad bin Zayed (MBZ) met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, just one day after Turkey commemorated...
As the United States embarks on a second Donald Trump term marked by a return to a power-based foreign policy, the nomination of Mike Waltz as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations amounts...
The decision, made Wednesday by the State Council, to temporarily suspend the tax imposed by the government on fuels to finance military aid, sparked a drop in fuel prices Friday that prompted a...
No matter how close cars squeeze past each other at every intersection, with hoods nearly touching bumpers, Mazen*, a taxi driver, notices that “there’s no one on the streets” of Damascus this...
Armed tribes allied with Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida Friday, a day after government troops withdrew from the Druze-majority city, the warring...
Differences between Israel and the United States are most visible on the Middle East stage. On Wednesday, Israeli forces struck the Syrian Defense Ministry’s command center in central Damascus,...
The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, told the Security Council on Thursday that “the current opportunity to achieve tangible change in Lebanon will not...
The sequence of events in Sweida marks its first real defeat. Since the fall of the Assad regime more than seven months ago, the new leadership embodied by Ahmad al-Sharaa has faltered more than...
BEIRUT — Beirut's first investigating judge, Bilal Halawi, on Tuesday issued two arrest warrants in the Creditbank corruption case, a senior judicial source told L'Orient Today. The warrants...
In the Aley district's village of Sharoun, on Wednesday afternoon, an on-edge crowd of Druze — both religious figures and everyday people from around the country — walked along the road toward...
Over four days of clashes between Druze armed factions, Bedouin tribes and Syrian security forces, numerous abuses were reported by all sides. Images of atrocities have begun to emerge, though they...
Several representatives of the Lebanese private hospital sector called on the state Thursday to support institutions they describe as being at the end of their rope. After six years of crisis and...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his European counterparts Friday they have no grounds for reactivating U.N. sanctions after they threatened to do so in the coming months unless there...
Gaza's civil defense agency said on Friday that Israeli strikes killed 14 people in the north and south of the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. The emergency service said fighter jets...
Israel announced on Friday that it is sending humanitarian aid to Sweida following days of deadly sectarian clashes in the Syrian province, heartland of the Druze minority. "Against the...
The government of Nawaf Salam convened Thursday at the presidential palace in Baabda, with its agenda gradually stripped of some of its most significant items, according to information leaked even...
22:22 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of events in the region. We will be back tomorrow with more news updates. 21:55 Beirut Time Syria:...
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
