The Algerian ambassador to Beirut, who had been in office since last February, was dismissed from his post Wednesday after being filmed verbally attacking U.S. President Donald Trump with language...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri reaffirmed Thursday in a statement to An-Nahar newspaper his commitment to the current electoral law, declaring: "Only the Bible and the Quran surpass it."...
Nearly 42,000 people, a quarter of them children, have suffered "life-changing injuries" including amputations, and head and spinal cord injuries in Israel's war in Gaza, the World...
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam reacted Thursday to the incident that occurred last week in Raouche, when thousands of protesters defied his decision and that of Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud...
As part of the lawsuit brought in Syria against former Lebanese minister Wiam Wahhab, a Lebanese Druze figure close to former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the judiciary of the new regime in...
General Sobhi Abu Arab, head of the Palestinian National Security Forces in Lebanon for 16 years, has submitted his resignation, our correspondent reported. He will be succeeded by Raed Daoud,...
In Lebanon’s public schools, there are no uniforms. At best, there is a smock to protect one’s clothes.Teachers are poorly paid, even worse than in private schools. It takes extraordinary...
The pressure is immense. After Arab states, Israel and Western countries lined up behind the 20-point plan for Gaza unveiled by U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 29, and all eyes are now on...
Sailing amid international waters in an attempt to break the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza, dozens of activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla were intercepted on Thursday morning by Israeli...
Hannibal Gaddafi, one of the sons of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who has been held without trial in Lebanon since 2015, was taken to the emergency room of a Beirut hospital on Thursday,...
President Joseph Aoun received on Thursday the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammad Raad, at the Baabda Presidential Palace. According to a brief official statement published on the...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa discussed border demarcation between Lebanon and Syria, along with security and military challenges, with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani...
Sunni MP from Tripoli, Achraf Rifi, a staunch opponent of Hezbollah, reaffirmed Thursday his "support" for Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, following the Raouche incident in Beirut. "The...
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables , a masterpiece of French literature, already brought to the stage and screen many times, found new life through the creativity of students wrapping up their drama...
She chose to bring new life to an old abandoned castle, the Château de Grimbergen, for her MA project in architecture at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium. At the same time,...
The Francophone University Agency (AUF) officially launched the project “Support for the integration of artificial intelligence in higher education in the Middle East” on September 11, by holding...
On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) is organizing a book fair from Oct. 2 to 4 on its humanities campus (Rue de Damas). Organized by USJ Press in...
Something in that line seen on the bathroom wall of a bar in a remote village in south Lebanon feels uncomfortably familiar. Especially here, especially now, especially in circles where talk of...
To observers outside a conflict zone, surrender and victory sit on opposite ends of a moral spectrum. Yet political life is ruled less by moral absolutes than by perception. For an armed actor...
Lebanon has always been at its most creative when cornered by empires. In the 1600s, Emir Fakhr al-Din kept one foot in Istanbul and another in Tuscany, dreaming of a mountain principality just...
Calm returned Thursday to the predominantly Christian region of Wadi al-Nasara, west of Homs, after security forces intervened to contain public anger triggered the day before by a deadly shooting....
Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said Wednesday that Hezbollah is not launching military operations "because it does not want to break the...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese cybersecurity company Semicolon Security announced Thursday it recently received $50,000 from Apple after uncovering a vulnerability in its iOS system. In March 2025, Hassan...
BEIRUT — The Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, Jamal Hajjar, questioned on Thursday two individuals as part of the investigations into the projection of the images of Hezbollah former...
“The disgraceful authorities have freed Riad Salameh,” Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil said during a party dinner in his stronghold of Batroun. These remarks were made a few...
Every other Thursday, Nima invites a viral social media trend back to her place, and dissects it under a Middle Eastern ring light. Diana Hamed, Miss Egypt Universe 2019, claims to be on a diet....
Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza during a joint press conference on Monday, fears have risen in Lebanon that...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun signed a decree on Thursday transmitting the 2026 draft finance law to Parliament. The decree is No. 1778, dated Oct. 2, 2025. The draft law, which contains the...
Andrea Tenenti can now speak without diplomatic restraint. After two decades as the spokesperson for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), he has returned to Italy following the...
For seven years now, 37-year-old Marc Farran has been crisscrossing Paris with his fresh, cold-pressed, organic juice. At the beginning, he delivered the bottled by bike. Now well established,...
Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has allegedly survived a poisoning attempt, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a post on X on Wednesday, citing an anonymous source. According...
The provocation was twofold, if not threefold. Last Thursday, Hezbollah chose to commemorate the assassinations of its former leaders, Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, in Beirut’s Raouche...
BEIRUT — In comments made on Wednesday to the daily Annahar, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Lebanon must adapt to the new reality being created by the regional upheavals of recent years,...
As Israel continues its violations of the cease-fire agreement in Lebanon, several MPs called last week for the government to file more complaints with international bodies. Since clashes began in...
Congratulations on surviving September, a month that (hopefully) flushed everything that wasn't serving you out of your life. Now comes the time when you get to hold that empty space, giddy and...
UNITED NATIONS — Russia does not recognize the return of United Nations sanctions on Iran, Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters on Wednesday when asked if Moscow would...
Following the suicide of a minor last Monday at the juvenile rehabilitation center in Warwar, Baabda, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) provided details Wednesday about the circumstances of the...
Israeli forces intercepted dozens of boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, flotilla organisers said on Thursday, but other vessels continue to sail towards the Palestinian...
SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli army killed two engineers working for Hezbollah's civilian reconstruction organization in a drone strike on a car driving east of Kfar Roummane in Nabatieh district...
For two years, they rehearsed how to react if arrested by Israeli forces. They studied every possible scenario, memorized the extensive first aid procedures, all in pursuit of a mission never...
22:02 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 21:44 Beirut Time...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday expelled all remaining Israeli diplomats in the country over Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla and the reported detention of two...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:• Developments off the coast of Gaza, as the...
Israeli forces have stopped 13 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, but 30 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, flotilla organizers said on...
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
