Hezbollah on Monday claimed responsibility for a shelling targeting the Roueissat al-Alam site in the disputed Kfar Shuba hills, marking its first such attack since the cease-fire began on Nov. 27....
For the first time since the cease-fire took effect last Tuesday, Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for shelling the Roueissat al-Alam site in the contested Kfar Shuba hills. According to the...
Against a backdrop of escalating armed conflict between Hezbollah and Israel over the past two months, after a year of cross-border exchanges, more than 540,000 people have fled Lebanon for Syria,...
In 2016, Hezbollah played a key role in helping the Bashar al-Assad regime reclaim Aleppo from the opposition groups. The Syrian army, tired, ill-equipped and divided, could hardly have advanced...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced Monday that Lebanon's displacement crisis has eased, claiming that "the majority of the displaced have returned with dignity to their...
It was in December 2013. The audience could only see his back. With his head covered and his voice decisive, Abu Mohammed al-Golani gave his first televised interview. The chief of al-Nusra Front,...
The combination of late November sales — culminating on Black Friday weekend — and the cease-fire that took effect on the morning of Nov. 27 encouraged some Lebanese to return to their former...
And then, all of a sudden, everything accelerated. It all seemed so fragile, all the walls cracked and anything was possible. The Oct. 7 seismic attack shook the entire region. Despite its power,...
The Arida border crossing between North Lebanon and Syria, which was bombed by Israel last week, is operational again, announced the caretaker Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ali...
Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday denounced a "flagrant violation" by Israel of the terms of the cease-fire agreement that came into effect on Nov. 27 in Lebanon, as drone strikes and...
BEIRUT — In a meeting on Monday between caretaker Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Cairo, Bou Habib thanked the Saudi minister for...
A Lebanese State Security agent was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Jdeidet Marjayoun, according to information from L'Orient-Le Jour's correspondent. The victim, identified as Mahdi...
The health ministry in Gaza said Monday that at least 44,466 people have been killed in more than 13 months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants. The toll...
Turkey, which backs rebel factions in Syria, rejected Monday any suggestion that "foreign interference" was behind the offensive launched by jihadists in the country's north....
A Hamas delegation discussed a cease-fire in Gaza with Egyptian intelligence officials, two officials from the Palestinian Islamist group told AFP on Monday. The...
At 82 years old, I've witnessed countless upheavals, enough to become accustomed to history's cyclical nature. But recent events have shaken me and frightened me profoundly. The bedrock principles...
The United Nations chief said Monday the situation in war-torn Gaza was "appalling and apocalyptic," warning conditions faced by Palestinians in the territory may amount to the "gravest...
BEIRUT — Three people were killed, including an officer from the Fatah Movement, in a clash between two families in the camp of Ain al-Hilweh located south of Saida, a Palestinian source in the...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Monday branded the Syrian opposition offensive that has captured swathes of territory an attempt to redraw the regional map in line with U.S. interests. For...
BEIRUT — As the environment deteriorates, Mediterranean countries, particularly those in the East, are expected to experience the consequences of climate change more intensely than the rest of the...
One of the economic news stories this weekend is that the price of Lebanese Eurobonds, the dollar-denominated debt securities, have hit their highest level in two years. The country has been in...
The Lebanese army announced on Monday that an Israeli drone strike on a military bulldozer carrying out work at a military center near the Haoush al-Sayyed Ali border crossing in Hermel, in...
The Lebanese army said Monday morning that it had found the remains of an officer in his car in Naqoura in south Lebanon the day before, "the victim of a targeted strike by the Israeli enemy."...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's parliament passed a law Thursday indefinitely extending the terms of five Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) members whose mandates expired Oct. 14. The law also contains a provision...
23:41 Beirut Time Israeli airstrikes on numerous areas of southern Lebanon this evening killed nine people, according to a preliminary toll from the Ministry of Health. Five people...
A U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led force in Syria is seeking to evacuate Kurds in parts of Aleppo to safe areas, its chief said Monday, after pro-Turkey rebels seized a town where tens of thousands of...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sought to shore up support from his allies Sunday, after a monitor said a shock rebel offensive saw government forces lose control of Aleppo for the first time...
French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman last met in Paris in June 2023. MBS spent long eight days in Paris, accompanied by a large ministerial delegation, to...
The United States and its allies France, Germany and Britain called Sunday for "de-escalation" in Syria and urged in a joint statement for the protection of civilians and infrastructure....
Britain will provide an additional 19 million pounds ($24 million) in humanitarian aid to Gaza, the international development minister said Monday, calling for Israel to give greater access ahead...
Turkey's top diplomat and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Sunday about the "rapidly developing" conflict in Syria where rebel forces have made gains. ...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Dec. 2, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 10:30 a.m.: Solidarity stand with journalist...
BEIRUT — The difference between 2006, when U.N. Resolution 1701 remained unfulfilled, and the potential success of last week's cease-fire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel lies in 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
