BEIRUT — During a speech given Friday marking the one-year anniversary of the assassination of senior party official Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem made an unusual gesture toward Saudi...
BEIRUT — After a night of heavy Israeli bombardment on South Lebanon, drone strikes on Friday killed at least two people, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the region. About...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said in a letter to Parliament Speaker and Amal Movement leader Nabih Berri that he is ready to discuss any proposal to amend the electoral law,...
BEIRUT — A mother was arrested after a video of her beating her 2-year-old toddler was circulating on social media, prompting widespread condemnations by users, a security source confirmed to...
Economy Minister Amer Bisat met Thursday in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to discuss reviving a free economic zone agreement signed between Lebanon and Iraq in 2002 but...
Cabinet held another meeting on Friday at the Grand Serail dedicated to reviewing the 2026 draft budget. "The meeting focused on fighting tax fraud to ensure a balance between revenue and...
Jezzine MP Ghada Ayoub of the Lebanese Forces on Friday welcomed the decision by the municipal council — dominated by the rival Free Patriotic Movement — to withdraw its ban on aerial photography...
A new mass grave holding over 100 bodies was discovered Thursday by Syrian authorities in the Otayba region, southeast of Damascus, a source in the Interior Ministry said, according to local media....
Over the months, Breakfast in Bed has been a real source of joy and play at the end of my weeks, a space to focus on alternative narratives, marvel at feats of achievement and get inspired by all...
The Israeli military on Friday said around 480,000 Palestinians have fled southwards from Gaza City since late August, as it presses its ground offensive in a bid to seize the territory's...
The Agriculture Ministry’s directorate in Akkar (northern Lebanon) and local forest rangers seized a truck loaded with wood from trees felled in a protected forest in the Jurd al-Qayta area,...
The Iraqi counterterrorism service announced Friday that a senior official of the Islamic State organization was killed during a security operation in Syria, carried out in coordination with the...
The Lebanese Army said Friday it carried out a raid in Beirut’s Palestinian Shatila camp targeting a drug warehouse, sparking clashes and leading to the arrest of 55 people. Meanwhile, State...
Elissar Naddaf is the first woman to serve as director of the country’s only public channel, Télé-Liban (TL), since its founding in 1959.Naddaf takes the helm of an institution facing major...
The United States once again blocked on Thursday the adoption by the U.N. Security Council of a resolution demanding a cease-fire and humanitarian access to Gaza, angering member states determined...
BEIRUT — Israel has buried a proposal that would have allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit Palestinian prisoners affiliated with Fatah, Haaretz reported Friday....
Électricité du Liban (EDL) announced Friday that 10 to 12 km of cables have been stolen, apparently from high and medium voltage lines in the Baalbeck district, between Makneh and Younin. In a...
BEIRUT — Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud met with Geroges Brax, the president of the union of gas station owners, on Friday to discuss extending the deadline for unlicensed stations to regularize...
The Israeli military warned on Friday it will operate with "unprecedented force" in Gaza City, urging residents to flee southwards while announcing the closure of a temporary evacuation...
Iran late Thursday withdrew a draft resolution at the U.N. nuclear watchdog that called to ban attacks against nuclear facilities after its war with Israel, citing reported U.S. pressure for the...
BEIRUT — Energy Minister Joe Saddi met with officials from TotalEnergies, one of the leading fuel suppliers in Lebanon, in Paris on Tuesday, concerning gas exploration in Lebanese fields, and on...
All Girls Code, a Lebanese initiative supporting women’s education in the MENA region, was one of two projects awarded the 2025 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education. The other winner was...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that he put forward a "fair and balanced" nuclear proposal to European powers to prevent the return of U.N. sanctions on the Islamic...
BEIRUT — The third edition of the Lebanese Solar Week (LISW 2025) will take place from Sept. 24 to 26 at Seaside Arena (formerly Biel) in Beirut, under the patronage of Energy and Water Minister...
Following the series of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, President Joseph Aoun met successively with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and army commander General Rodolph Haykal to discuss the security...
Two days after demonstrations blocked several roads in the country, a new sit-in by retired military personnel cut off both lanes of the Tripoli–Beirut highway, at the Palma bridge on the southern...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing her diaries with L'Orient Today during the...
The extradition request for Igor Grechushkin, identified by Beirut as the owner of Rhosus, is expected to be sent early next week to Bulgaria, where he has been under arrest since Sept. 5, Justice...
Gasoline prices have been on the rise for four weeks, according to the latest price schedule published by the Energy and Water Ministry. Diesel is also up, while household gas, which fluctuates at...
In a packed Ovo Arena Wembley, the Together for Palestine concert brought together Western and Palestinian artists under a single banner: Solidarity. Between never-before-seen performances,...
21:27 Beirut Time Thank you for following today's live blog. See you tomorrow for another day of coverage. 21:23 Beirut Time Washington: Islamic State (IS)...
BEIRUT — Finance Minister Yassine Jaber said that Lebanon will not be able to restore confidence in its market without resolving the financial crisis that began in 2019, in a way that respects the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Sept. 19, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:10 a.m. Culture Minister Dr. Ghassan Salameh will...
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
