Two people killed during an arrest in Akkar
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army said in a statement on Wednesday that its forces killed a person who had opened fire on a soldier, along with another person accompanying him, in Berkayel, in the...
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Aoun to Baerbock: 'Israel has rejected all proposals' to withdraw from South Lebanon
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun said on Wednesday that Israel has "rejected" all Lebanese proposals to withdraw from the five strategic points in southern Lebanon. Aoun made the comments while...
L'Orient Today staff, 19 March 2025
Elderly woman murdered in Chouf; daughter-in-law and housekeeper arrested
BEIRUT — The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced on Wednesday the arrest of two women in connection with the murder of an elderly woman in her seventies found...
L'Orient Today staff, 19 March 2025
New Israeli strikes on Gaza 'dramatic step backwards': Macron
Israel's resumption of strikes on the Gaza Strip is a major step in the wrong direction after its cease-fire with Palestinian militant group Hamas earlier this year, French President Emmanuel...
19 March 2025
Lebanon's finance minister meets with Lazard representatives and the U.S. ambassador
BEIRUT — Lebanese Finance Minister Yassine Jaber met Wednesday with representatives from the international advisory firm Lazard, reigniting discussions on Lebanon's long-stalled debt restructuring...
L'Orient Today staff, 19 March 2025
Lebanon's ISF appoints new head of Information Division
BEIRUT — Director General of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) Raed Abdullah has appointed Brigadier General Mahmoud Qobrosli as head of the ISF's Information Division, local media outlets...
19 March 2025
Lebanese Forces, Amal Movement MPs clash over Lebanon's defense strategy
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces MP Fadi Karam criticized comments made by the Amal Movement MP Kassem Hashem about a potential future dialogue regarding Lebanon's defense strategy on Wednesday. The issue...
L'Orient Today staff, 19 March 2025
Karami submits decree to Cabinet to cancel this year's Brevet exams
BEIRUT — Education Minister Rima Karami announced on Wednesday that she has submitted a draft decree to the Cabinet to cancel this year’s official intermediate certificate (Brevet) exams and...
L'Orient Today staff, 19 March 2025
A wave of unrest from South to North: Could these incidents be connected?
As if Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon and the exchange of fire along the Syrian border were not enough, the night from Monday to Tuesday was shaken by clashes in northern Lebanon between the...
Scarlett HADDAD, 19 March 2025
Msaylha Dam: Two companies prosecuted for money laundering and embezzlement
The investigating judge of North Lebanon, Samaranda Nassar, filed charges Tuesday against the Italian company that built the Msaylha Dam near Batroun in North Lebanon, as well as a French...
19 March 2025
Lebanon warns security risks of Israeli app 'Tzofar'
The Lebanese government warned Friday against the Israeli application Tzofar, urging citizens not to download or use it due to potential risks to national security. The General Secretariat of the...
Ghadir Hamadi, Yara Sarkis, 19 March 2025
State Shura Council could invalidate decisions by Mikati’s Cabinet
In a report recently drafted at the request of State Shura Council Head Fadi Elias, council member Mireille Daoud recommended annulling a decision former Prime Minister Najib Mikati made on Dec....
Claude ASSAF, 19 March 2025
Group calls for treatment of fermenting wheat at Beirut Port silos
On Wednesday, an organization called on Lebanese authorities to address the issue of fermenting wheat, stored for years inside the still-standing silos at Beirut Port, partially destroyed by the...
19 March 2025
Scrappers block roads in Tripoli in protest against the forced shutdown of their businesses
Scrap collector shop owners in Tripoli on Wednesday blocked the highway connecting the capital of North Lebanon to the Beddaoui area, as well as several adjacent roads. In protest of the decision...
L'Orient Today staff, 19 March 2025
NASA astronauts, stranded for 9 months, safely return
Home at last: After an unexpected nine-month stay in space, a pair of NASA astronauts finally returned to Earth on Tuesday, concluding a mission that captured global attention and became a...
19 March 2025
U.N. peacekeeper injured in possible mine explosion in southern Lebanon
A United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeeper was injured on Wednesday during an "operational activity" in southern Lebanon, according to Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for...
L'Orient Today, 19 March 2025
Disarming Hezbollah: Amal-aligned ministers launch counteroffensive
The timeline for Hezbollah’s disarmament may well become the next major battle within Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government — and Hezbollah and Amal are already preparing for it.During a Cabinet...
Yara ABI AKL, 19 March 2025
Public schools' contractual teachers and Lebanese University Professors observing a warning strike
BEIRUT — The Contractual Teachers’ League in Lebanese Primary Public Schools (CTLP) announced a warning strike in public schools from Wednesday morning until Sunday evening, according to the...
19 March 2025
In Riyadh, the crackdown on 'immoral acts' returns to the spotlight
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's (MBS) latest crackdown starkly contrasts with the progressive image he has sought to cultivate through futuristic projects aimed at ushering the kingdom...
Clara HAGE, 19 March 2025
ISIS cell with Lebanese members plotted to assassinate Sharaa, Damascus announces
The Syrian Interior Ministry released a video on social media showing the alleged confessions of a member of an ISIS cell that was planning to carry out several operations in Syria, one of which...
L'Orient Today staff, 19 March 2025
'For now, we only received help from Russia,' say Syrian refugees at Hmeimim
On March 7, Samar* hastily left her village in the Jableh countryside. Along with her husband and relatives, she fled — like thousands of Syrians — to the Russian airbase at Hmeimim. Terrified,...
Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 19 March 2025
UNIFIL commemorates 47 years of service in Lebanon
In a statement, UNIFIL commemorated its 47th anniversary of operations in Lebanon, in which it reflected on its commitment to peace and stability in the region. Lt. General Aroldo Lázaro, Head of...
L'Orient Today staff, 19 March 2025
Does this Lebanese dating app ask its users to disclose their religious sect?
Want to get the latest news to your inbox? Sign-up here for our newsletters The claim: A Lebanese dating application, Taarof, reportedly asks its users, who must be heterosexual...
Yara Sarkis, 19 March 2025
Lebanon and IMF: Behind the facade of optimism, back to square one
At the end of last week following the four-day visit of an International Monetary Fund delegation to Beirut, optimism was palpable. The IMF "welcomed the authorities' request for a new...
Mounir YOUNES, 19 March 2025
Man killed while trying to cross the border between Syria and Lebanon
A Syrian man in his 50s was shot dead on Wednesday while attempting to cross the border between Lebanon and Syria, at the Nahr al-Kabir in Akkar (North), according to information from L'Orient...
19 March 2025
Lebanese Army deploys in Hosh al-Sayyed Ali in northern Bekaa
This article was updated with new developments at 9:40 p.m. BEIRUT — Lebanese Army and military engineering units deployed at Hoch al-Sayyed Ali, in the Baalbeck-Hermel district, at the...
L'Orient Today, 19 March 2025
‘New Lebanon’ faces hostile geopolitical reality
Caught between the turmoil on its southern side and the ongoing disturbances at its northern border, the new government, driven by a wave of change, appears to be growing more and more ensnared in...
Jeanine JALKH, 19 March 2025
'I refuse to kill civilians, but Alawites need to self-reflect'
From his apartment in Damascus, Hadi* watched in horror as massacres bloodied western Syria between March 6 and 10.“I refuse to accept that innocent Alawites, the elderly, and women are being...
Amélie ZACCOUR, 19 March 2025
Salameh Affair: HSBC Geneva faltered on money laundering compliance for years, Public Eye reveals
BEIRUT — Nearly 15 years. That was how long it took for HSBC Private Bank in Geneva to report a series of suspicious transfers to Swiss regulators involving the former governor of the Central Bank,...
Stephanie Bechara, 19 March 2025
Israeli army says it launched 'targeted ground operations' in Gaza| Live
13:44 Beirut Time 22:17 Beirut Time This concludes our live coverage of the developments in the region for today. Thank you for joining us. We will resume...
Malek Jadah, Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah ABDALLAH, Renee Davis, Nicholas Frakes & Tasnim Chaaban, 19 March 2025
Why Israel relaunched its war on Gaza
The bombings were the deadliest in over a year. In full Ramadan season, the Palestinian territory's residents were plunged back into hell by large-scale airstrikes launched around 2 a.m. on...
Noura DOUKHI, 19 March 2025
Hamas has 'not closed the door' on talks as Israel tells Gazans to flee
Hamas has not shut the door on negotiations, an official from the Palestinian Islamist group said Wednesday, after Israel launched its most intense bombardment of Gaza since a Jan. 19 cease-fire....
19 March 2025
Turkey police detain Istanbul mayor, Erdogan's main rival
Turkish police raided the home of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday, detaining him over a corruption probe in a move denounced by the main opposition CHP party as a "coup." A...
19 March 2025
Israel government approves return of far right's Ben Gvir as minister
The Israeli government approved the return of firebrand politician Itamar Ben-Gvir as national security minister, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Wednesday. A statement said...
19 March 2025
Houthis claim fourth attack against US warships
Yemen's Houthis claimed on Wednesday to have carried out a fourth attack in 72 hours on an American fleet in the Red Sea, as the U.S. military said its campaign against the Iran-backed rebels...
19 March 2025
Netanyahu says Gaza strikes 'only the beginning'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday that massive overnight strikes on Gaza were "only the beginning" and that future negotiations with Hamas "will take place...
19 March 2025
War monitor says Israel strikes central Syria military site
A Syria war monitor said Israeli jets struck a military site in central Syria on Tuesday, the latest such attack in recent days. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...
19 March 2025
Iranians celebrate fire festival, hoping to remedy 'all problems'
Iranians on Tuesday lit bonfires in the streets and jumped over them, carrying on an ancient tradition ahead of the Persian New Year to purify themselves and ward off evil spirits. The fire...
19 March 2025
West Bank livestock theft symbol of tensions and settler 'impunity'
A community of Palestinian Bedouins has decried a major theft of their livestock in the occupied West Bank, where the U.N. says violence from Israeli settlers is taking place in a climate of...
19 March 2025
Israel promises further attacks following return to bombing campaign in Gaza: Everything you need to know this Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Catch up on yesterday's live coverage.Wednesday, March 19, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• German...
Abbas Mahfouz, 19 March 2025
Syria donors' conference: Reconstruction remains distant
Brussels stepped up its efforts for Syria. On Monday, the European Union (EU) held the 9th edition of the donors' conference on Syria in the Belgian capital. This year's goal was to rally...
