BEIRUT — A top official from Lebanon's Iran-backed militant group on Friday warned Israel would "receive a real slap in the face" if it expanded the conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border....
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian-American teenager was killed by Israeli security forces on Friday in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said. The Israeli military...
BEIRUT — Israel has one of the highest rates of journalists detained in its prisons, according to the annual survey published Thursday by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). "Amidst...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi and MP Wael Abou Faour of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) inaugurated on Friday the reopening of a wing of Rashaya Public School, in...
GAZA — Gaza residents have been largely without internet and telephone services for a week, an internet monitor said on Friday. The ongoing communications blackout has become the longest outage...
DAVOS — At a dinner in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani hosted business and political leaders to showcase Iraq's improved security and finances....
Iran has sparked a significant escalation, extending thousands of kilometers beyond Gaza and its surrounding fronts. Following Iranian strikes in the Pakistani region of Sistan-Baluchistan,...
Proudly donning a beret for a long time, he cultivated a physical resemblance with Picasso. He had the same dark, watchful gaze, decorticating the world, people and nature. He had the same...
Lama Sfeir After the economic collapse with the currency shortage in 2019 and the Beirut blast in August of 2020, comes the anxiety of whether or not the fighting in southern Lebanon will expand...
Behind the scenes, the Biden administration’s frustration by the Netanyahu government is hardly contained. As a sign of these tensions, there has been no direct communication between the US...
BEIRUT — Local Palestinian media reported that Ahmad al-Durrah was killed Thursday by Israeli forces in Bureij refugee camp in Gaza, 23 years after his brother Mohammed was killed by Israeli...
Thousands of Gazan men may have been detained by Israeli forces since war erupted on Oct. 7 and often subjected to ill-treatment that could amount to torture, the UN's human rights representative...
Leaders of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries on Friday denounced Israel's military campaign in Gaza and demanded an immediate cease-fire there, during the annual summit of the 120-member...
The Sunni Islamist political organization Hizb ut-Tahrir has been formally banned in the UK, the interior ministry said on Friday. Interior minister James Cleverly...
The speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, has summoned MPs to sessions on Wednesday, Jan. 24, and Thursday, Jan. 25, to vote on the state budget, also known as the finance law, for 2024,...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been targeted with a criminal complaint during a visit to Switzerland, Swiss prosecutors said Friday, amid allegations of crimes against humanity over the war in...
The health ministry in Gaza said Friday the war between militants and Israel has killed 24,762 people in the Palestinian territory. The toll includes 142 fatalities over...
Iran said on Friday that it successfully carried out an air defense drill using drones designed to intercept hostile targets in an area stretching from its southwestern to southeastern coasts,...
A few dozen people gathered Friday morning in front of the headquarters of the Central Bank (BDL), in the Hamra shopping district in Beirut, to “demand the imposition of a timetable for returning...
Pakistan's prime minister will hold an emergency security meeting on Friday with military and intelligence chiefs after trading deadly air strikes with Iran on militant targets this week....
Twenty kilograms of hashish were seized by the Internal Security Forces (ISF) at Beirut International Airport, reports the state-run National News Agency (NNA). Two Lebanese women were trying to...
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed another attack on a US ship early Friday after the United States launched fresh strikes on rebel targets over their aggression towards vessels in and around the Red...
Washington stressed once again Thursday it believes the creation of a Palestinian state is the only way to guarantee Israel's long-term security, putting the US-Israeli divide on the matter on...
Israel has broken international law with its "relentless" bombardment of Gaza that has leveled neighborhoods and killed thousands of Palestinians, a UN rights expert said Thursday....
Israeli cabinet minister and former military chief Gadi Eizenkot told Israel's Channel 12 on Thursday that he prevented Israel from preemptively attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon in the days after...
The prices of gasoline and gas cylinders remained unchanged in the new list published Friday by the Ministry of Energy and Water, while the prices for diesel consumed by vehicles and fuel oil...
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Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 104 of the Israel-Hamas war here . Israel fired white phosphorus on Mais...
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
