BEIRUT — The company responsible for collecting garbage in Saida has abruptly halted operations, leaving waste to pile up in the streets of the southern Lebanese coastal city. According to our...
When Iran launched the Honest Promise Operation on Saturday evening — the first to target Israel directly — it was announcing a change of equation with its enemy. Tehran marked a strategic turning...
Group of Seven (G7) leaders released a statement on Friday condemning Iran and giving Israel its “full solidarity and support,” following ongoing meetings in Italy addressing enflamed tensions in...
BEIRUT — Two Syrian nationals drowned in the sea off the coast of Sour on Friday. Three other people who were also drowning managed to be rescued, according to a source in the Lebanese Civil...
US President Joe Biden's administration is pushing for a "long-shot diplomatic deal" in the coming months pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a new commitment to...
By opting to strike Israel, Iran has broken with a strategy that had been the cornerstone of its security policy for decades. Israeli intelligence did not anticipate this decision when Tel Aviv...
This is Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s first trip to Washington. In office since October 2022, he has been trying to maintain a fine balance between his relations with neighboring Iran and with his US...
BEIRUT — Since fighting broke out between Hezbollah and Israel on Oct. 8, 282 Hezbollah fighters have allegedly been killed. However, on several occasions, local residents, mayors, friends and...
A measured and restrained retaliation was swiftly delivered by Israel less than a week after Iran’s reprisal against it. As Israel’s response unfolded on Thursday night, it prompted speculation:...
The ESA Business School, located in the district of Clemenceau in Beirut, has appointed a new director to its incubator branch Smart ESA in October 2023. We sat down with Karl Gedda, Smart ESA’s...
The United States was "not involved in any offensive operation," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday following reports that Israel had carried out revenge strikes on Iran....
Launched in 2020 despite the country’s ongoing challenges, the Startup Competition ESA-HEC Paris is back this year for its fifth edition. Organized by the ESA Business School’s incubator Smart...
Despite all the efforts the quintet (USA, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar) put in the Lebanese dossier to ensure that the future president is the fruit of a broad agreement, Sleiman Frangieh —...
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on Friday hailed Tehran's unprecedented retaliatory attack on Israel almost a week ago but did not mention explosions heard in his country's central region. ...
The Group of Seven industrialized nations said Friday it opposed a "full-scale military operation in Rafah" by Israel as that would have "catastrophic consequences on the civilian population."...
BEIRUT — Middle East Airlines (MEA) announced on Friday the schedule of flights to and from Dubai for the next three days amid a "temporary reduction in the number of flights" following a storm...
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir came under severe criticism for harming Israel's strategy against Iran after he suggested Israel was behind blasts that rocked Iran on...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem told American news broadcaster NBC on Thursday that Hezbollah is determined to keep its military operation at the Lebanese-Israeli border limited...
Sitting around a fire in the hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Ibrahim Abu Alyah and some friends stood watch over his herd in the aftermath of a settler attack on their village....
The S&P global rating agency downgraded its rating on Israel's long-term debt amid regional tensions, it said in a statement issued late Thursday, just before reports of an Israeli revenge...
The United States embassy in Israel on Friday told its employees and their families to restrict their movements after reports that Israel conducted a strike inside Iran. "Out of an abundance...
Iranian media on Friday dismissed that Iran had been attacked from abroad after several drones were shot down and explosions heard near the central city of Isfahan. "There...
Iran's state media reported explosions in the central province of Isfahan Friday, as US media quoted officials saying Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes on its arch-rival. Air defense...
More than six months of Israel's military offensive in Gaza has turned the Palestinian territory into a "humanitarian hellscape," UN chief Antonio Guterres said Thursday, also warning...
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The United States on Thursday spoiled a long-shot Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership, vetoing a Security Council measure despite growing international distress over the humanitarian...
Islamic State group fighters on Thursday killed 28 Syrian soldiers and affiliated pro-government forces in two attacks on government-held areas of the war-torn country, a war monitor said. In one...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 195 of the Gaza war here . Israel struck an Iranian military airport in Isfahan...
Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, ABC News reported late on Thursday, citing a U.S. official, while Iranian state media reported an explosion in the center of the country, days after Iran...
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
