BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri suggested that consensus, like the one reached in order to extend Lebanese Army chief Joseph Aoun's term, could be useful in achieving other goals, such as...
BEIRUT — The northern Lebanese port of Tripoli is gearing up to receive a third giant crane sometime between Christmas and New Years, despite heightened tensions in the country and the region,...
PALMACHIM AIRBASE — Heavy civilian casualties are the cost of Israel's intense campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza and the militants' urban warfare strategy, Israeli military officials said, in...
BEIRUT — Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt each stand to lose two to four percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) due to the war in Gaza, with Lebanon at particular economic risk, the United Nations...
On Sunday, Jan. 7, another son of Wael Dahdouh, who was also a journalist for Al Jazeera, was killed by an Israeli strike. Read L'Orient-Le Jour's profile of the Qatari channel's Gaza bureau chief....
TEL AVIV — The Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem filed a petition on Tuesday with the Israeli Supreme Court requesting immediate access for international media to the Gaza Strip....
VATICAN CITY — Israelis and Palestinians face "pain and mourning" over the Christmas period as the war in the Gaza Strip rages on, Pope Francis said on Tuesday, calling for prayers and "tangible...
LONDON — A British Royal Navy destroyer has joined a new international maritime protection force to protect shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the government in London said Monday....
Gaza is "the most dangerous place in the world" for a child, the UN children's agency spokesperson said Tuesday, expressing his rage at the situation there after returning from the Palestinian...
One of the last remaining hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip stopped operating on Tuesday after being stormed by the Israeli army, its director said. Fadel Naim told AFP...
Lebanon’s central bank (BDL) has changed the exchange rate on its Sayrafa platform from 85,500 LL to 89,500 Lebanese liras to the US dollar. Banks have been notified of the decision and must...
The Israeli army said Tuesday it had demolished the family home of a Palestinian man accused of killing two Israelis – a father and his son – at a car wash in the occupied West Bank....
Jordanian airstrikes targeting drug smugglers in war-torn Syria have killed five people, including two children and a woman, a war monitor said Tuesday. The report by the...
BEIRUT — The Kamal Adwan Hospital was one of 11 facilities still operating in the besieged Gaza Strip and one of the few in the northern part of the enclave. On Sunday morning, the courtyard of the...
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin on Tuesday condemned "unprecedented" attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on international shipping in the Red Sea, saying they threaten global trade flows, according to a...
France is to sanction certain extremist Israeli settlers, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Tuesday, denouncing "unacceptable" violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank....
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Tuesday they would not halt attacks on Red Sea shipping despite the announcement by the United States of a new maritime protection force....
Before war broke out in Gaza, Mahmud al-Daoudi could never have imagined the radio sets gathering dust in his shop would be in such high demand, offering his customers a precious link with the...
The caretaker Lebanese government confirmed the extension army commander Joseph Aoun's term as voted by Parliament last Friday. None of the 18 ministers present opposed the law, which will come...
A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday confirmed the conviction of a former Iranian prison official handed a life sentence for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents....
The UN Security Council is struggling to speak with one voice ahead of a vote expected Tuesday on a new resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. A vote may come as soon...
Faced with growing criticism over its military actions in the Gaza Strip, Israeli air force officers on Monday defended their actions in the war against Hamas. "All the...
A Hamas official on Monday said one of the group's tunnels revealed by the Israeli army in Gaza had "successfully" accomplished its mission, downplaying the Israeli announcement of its discovery....
The United States on Monday voiced alarm over an assault by Israeli police officers against a photojournalist for Turkish news agency Anadolu and called for accountability....
22:30 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage from day 74 of the Hamas-Israel war. You can read a full summary of today's events here . We'll be back tomorrow...
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Delay in hopes of breaking deadlock The UN Security Council was meant to vote today on a resolution put forward by the United Arab Emirates that calls for an "urgent and sustainable cessation of...
LONDON — London's marine insurance market has widened the area in the Red Sea it deems as high risk after a surge in attacks on commercial ships, according to a statement issued on Monday....
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
