BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Monday that "it would not be logical, or even reasonable, to elect a president who would antagonize Hezbollah," in a lengthy...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Telecommunication Ministry and the state-run telecommunication company Ogero received an $8 million donation from China to supply more than 380 of Ogero's sites with solar power,...
BEIRUT — Neighborhoods of Beirut, the capital's southern suburbs and Metn have been experiencing a month-long water outage due to electricity cuts at the Dbayeh pump station and malfunctions in the...
With grief etched on her face, 15-year-old Ibrar struggled to find the words to describe her pain at losing three friends in the huge flood that shattered her Libyan hometown....
It was home to people from all walks of life. It hosted exhibitions, concerts, panels, film screenings, plays, fashion shows, and even business and political meetings. It witnessed its 500 or so...
BEIRUT — "Dialogue is the vote in Parliament," Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai said Tuesday, in an apparent rebuff against Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's recent campaign to hold political...
During Monday’s plenary session organized by the Higher Judicial Council (HJC) to inaugurate the new judicial year, no decision regarding a strike was reached. The session, chaired by Souheil...
Azerbaijan on Tuesday launched a military operation in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region and demanded the total withdrawal of Armenian forces from the disputed mountainous territory as a...
Azerbaijan launched "anti-terrorist activities" in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday, saying it wanted to restore constitutional order and drive out what it said were Armenian troops, a...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is scheduled to travel to China on Thursday to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, according to a presidential statement. This would be Assad’s first visit...
In a Libyan hospital ward, trauma and grief mix with disbelief and anger among the survivors of the flood disaster that killed untold thousands in the devastated city of Derna....
Flash floods have injured 20 people in northern Iran, after what officials described as the region's heaviest rains in a century, Iranian media reported. The rains have...
What does Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri want? With his endorsement of Marada leader Sleiman Frangieh’s candidacy, his unwavering commitment to his week-long dialogue proposal ahead of the...
A plane carrying five Americans freed by Iran landed in the United States on Tuesday, a day after they were swapped for the release of five Iranians held in the US and the unfreezing of $6...
Five Iranian nationals who were detained in the US have been freed, Iran's Press TV said on Monday, adding that two of them were on their way to Tehran. Press TV earlier reported the two...
BEIRUT — Internal Security Forces on Tuesday prevented a husband-and-wife holdup operation at an Arab Finance House branch in Beirut's Corniche al-Mazraa neighborhood, a spokesperson for The...
More than 1,200 children died from measles and malnutrition since May in Sudan refugee camps, the UN said Tuesday, warning that tens of thousands will be "on the brink of death" by the end of the...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's presidency "does not concern" Army chief Joseph Aoun, he said Monday, despite months of chatter by politicians and media that he might be a contender in the race to end a nearly...
For the past several days, whenever Mohammad Tarha’s phone rings, he scans all calls from a private hospital in Saida, where his mother has been bedridden for nearly two weeks. “They’re asking me...
A senior military official in Baghdad said Tuesday that a drone that killed three Kurdish counterterrorism officers had originated in neighboring Turkey, and condemned the violation of Iraq's...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York on Monday and received an invitation from US President Joe Biden to visit Washington, Iraqi...
BEIRUT — A historic Tripoli building that municipal authorities previously warned could collapse partially crumbled Monday evening, sending dust and debris into a main street in the city’s Zahriya...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Tuesday announced a slight increase in fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,836,000, up by LL12,000 • Twenty liters...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Public school teachers demanded improved compensation during a protest outside the Parliament building that coincided with...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
