Lebanese Education Minister Rima Karameh announced Tuesday that public schools will provide only four days of instruction per week at the start of the 2025-2026 school year in Lebanon. This...
AFP’s photographer Omar al-Qatta says he has seen it all in Gaza: "the starvation, genocide, the invasion of Israeli tanks, the attacks against schools and hospitals." Omar, whose photos...
Finance Minister Yassine Jaber did send a statement to the State Council to explain why he believed the government’s May 19, 2025, decision to tax certain fuels and use the proceeds from these...
Several fires that broke out Tuesday in Akkar and the Batroun region of northern Lebanon have been brought under control, reports our correspondent in the North. A fire believed to be of criminal...
BEIRUT — In 1936 Jerusalem, a young man named Yusuf walks the city’s ancient stones, where the echoes of revolt stir unrest all around. Torn between returning to his village and answering the call...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam began his official visit to Jordan on Tuesday, where he met with King Abdullah II. The monarch expressed "his country’s full support for Lebanon to...
Kataeb Party leader Samy Gemayel accused Iran and Hezbollah of trying to "forcibly drag" the Amal Movement into a conflict "it does not want," as both Tehran and the party push...
The United Nations took aim Tuesday at Israel's months-long block on bringing tents into the Gaza Strip, despite continual displacement orders issued to civilians in the devastated territory....
A senior Israeli official on Tuesday said the government demanded the release of all remaining hostages in any future Gaza deal, a day after Hamas accepted a new truce proposal. Speaking on the...
The government’s decisions on Aug. 5 and Aug. 7, affirming the monopoly on armed force and calling for the collection of Hezbollah’s weapons, mark an important and courageous moment in the process...
President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday warned against ending the United Nations peacekeepers' mandate in the country's south, after the U.N. Security Council began debating extending their...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Tuesday reassured Iran's president that a planned corridor linking Azerbaijan with its exclave will be under Armemian control, as Iran had voiced...
NORTH LEBANON — Public Works and Transport Minister, Fayez Rasamny, announced from Tripoli (North Lebanon,) that "the economic feasibility study for Qleiaat airport – in Akkar – has been...
State Security announced on Tuesday in a statement that it had apprehended a Syrian national in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, for alleged involvement in human trafficking and fraud. "During...
Syria appears to be entering a critical phase. The regime of interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are negotiating under the threat of a confrontation that could...
Paris, October 1984. Under the dome of the Cirque d’Hiver, conversations buzz as the chandeliers cast their brilliance over old wooden chairs and tables. For the first time, a certain Jean-Paul...
The U.N.'s human rights office on Tuesday condemned a far-right Israeli minister for taunting a Palestinian prisoner in his cell and sharing the footage online. National security minister...
The latest Gaza cease-fire proposal agreed by Hamas is "almost identical" to an earlier plan put forward by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson...
The storm provoked by Naim Qassem’s fiery remarks had not yet subsided by the time American envoys Tom Barrack and Morgan Ortagus arrived in Lebanon.Many analysts expected the U.S. to adopt a...
By ordering, on Aug. 14 the repatriation of funds transferred abroad after Oct. 17, 2019 — a watershed date in Lebanon's collapse — financial prosecutor Judge Maher Sheaito gave immense hope to...
BEIRUT — On Aug. 14, Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank) extended the deadline for banks to meet its foreign currency liquidity requirements, issuing Intermediate Circular No. 739 to amend Circular...
Is the mission of the United Nations Interim Force in southern Lebanon nearing its end? This question arises a few days before the U.N. Security Council session devoted to reviewing the fate of...
Australia's foreign minister on Tuesday criticized Israel for revoking visas held by Canberra's diplomatic representatives to the Palestinian Authority. Israel's tit-for-tat move...
BEIRUT — The Iraqi Interior Ministry said it helped dismantle one of the Middle East’s largest Captagon factories in Lebanon, in a move authorities described as a major blow to regional drug...
Ukraine's allies were meeting on Tuesday to discuss the outcome of fast-moving talks to end the war with Russia, after indications that Volodymyr Zelensky could sit down with Vladimir Putin for...
BEIRUT — A piece of jewelry depicting "Greater Israel," presented to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview on Israel's i24 channel last week, has drawn condemnation from...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun told the commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), General Diodato Abagnara, that Lebanon is committed "to maintaining the international...
The 163 articles of the law organizing the judiciary, passed on July 31, include a provision that has been particularly controversial in legal circles. Article 42 has sparked strong outrage,...
BEIRUT — Gasoline prices rose slightly Tuesday compared with the last schedule published Friday by the Ministry of Energy and Water, while diesel and domestic gas prices both saw notable declines....
A record 383 aid workers were killed in 2024, the United Nations said Tuesday, branding the figures and lack of accountability a "shameful indictment" of international apathy — and warned...
U.S.-based charity HEAL Palestine and other rights groups criticized the State Department's decision to stop visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza, saying it will harm wounded children...
Reading Hezbollah has always been a delicate exercise. It has become even more so since the party lost its former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and the last war with Israel. There is no longer a pilot...
Cyprus has dispatched 1,200 metric tons of humanitarian aid for Gaza by sea via Ashdod in Israel, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The pre-screened cargo would be transferred without...
Palestinian-American human rights lawyer Noura Erakat — author of “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine” (Stanford University Press, 2019) and co-editor of the electronic magazine...
22:05 Beirut Time We are closing our LIVE coverage of events in the region for tonight. We will be back tomorrow with our Morning Brief and more news updates. 21:34 Beirut...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, who met U.S. envoy Tom Barrack on Monday during Barrack's visit to Lebanon after the government's decision to disarm Hezbollah and other armed groups before the...
The head of Syria's commission for missing persons said Monday the number of people who went missing during decades of Assad family rule and the civil war may have exceeded 300,000. Mohammed...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he was willing to meet directly with his Russian counterpart to end the war. Speaking to reporters after talks with US President Donald Trump and...
The visit of American envoys Tom Barrack and Morgan Ortagus to Beirut revolved around three main points. The first was to provide support to the Lebanese state after its decision to restore the...
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
