BEIRUT — UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron announced an $8 million humanitarian aid package for the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...
BEIRUT — Senior Beirut-based Hamas official Osama Hamdan highlighted the importance of Israel releasing key Palestinian prisoners, including the popular Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti and...
BEIRUT — Mount Lebanon's Public Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun seized assets belonging to Credit Libanais Bank CEO Joseph Torbey and AM Bank (al-Mawarid Bank) CEO Marwan Kheireddine in response...
This article was first published on 2 February 2024. It was then updated on May 22 2024. Amid the Gaza war, the idea of officially recognizing Palestine as a state is becoming evident in the...
GENEVA — The United Nations said on Friday it estimates that at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left unaccompanied or separated nearly four months into the war....
RAFAH — The UN voiced fears Friday about worsening conditions in southern Gaza, saying a surge in people seeking safety in Rafah had made the town a "pressure cooker of despair."...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Army Chief General Joseph Aoun met with British Deputy Chief of the Defense Staff Charles Walker in Yarzeh on Friday, accompanied by the British ambassador to Lebanon Hamish...
Belgium on Friday summoned the Israeli ambassador after a Belgian development agency building in Gaza City was bombed, Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib said. "Attacks on civilian...
When Fatima, an Arab Israeli married to a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, fled Israel's bombardment of the territory, she was terrified they would run out of fuel. "We...
At least 27,131 Palestinians have been killed and 66,287 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday. Some...
“Shiites Against War,” “Taharror,” “Sovereign Front for Lebanon,” are examples of these opposition groups. Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, initiatives by Shiite groups opposed to...
Sweden's intelligence service said Friday that the investigation into a foiled attack on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm this week was being probed as a potential "terrorist crime."...
The prices of petrol, diesel and heating oil all went up on Friday, according to the new price scale published by the Ministry of Energy and Water. The price of a cylinder of domestic gas remains...
The Civil Defense announced that it had rescued two Syrian nationals on Friday morning following the collapse of a room in their home in Qab Elias, Bekaa. In one of the photos published by the...
Iraq's pro-Iran Al-Nujaba movement said Friday it intends to press on with attacks on US troops in the Middle East, despite Washington's threat to hit back after three of its soldiers were killed...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is engaged in intense political maneuvering as pressure grows at home and abroad to release hostages held in Gaza and bring fighting to a halt....
NEW YORK — UNICEF chief Catherine Russel on Friday urged "the world" on Friday, in a message published on X, not to "abandon" the children of Gaza, while sharing a UN organizations statement from...
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said on Friday that his country will not start a war, but it will "respond strongly" to anyone who bullies it. "We will not start any war, but if...
Three pro-Iran fighters were killed on Friday in Israeli strikes south of the Syrian capital, a war monitor said, the second such attack this week. Syrian state media reported damage from...
Fighting in Gaza dragged on into Friday with scores reported killed overnight, after mediator Qatar said Hamas had given its "initial" approval to a hostage-prisoner exchange deal that would pause...
President Joe Biden on Friday will oversee the return to the United States of the bodies of three American soldiers, killed in a drone attack at a base in Jordan that Washington has blamed on...
At a prominent Shiite shrine in southern Tehran, Qasem Asghari was buying yet another gemstone ring in the hope it would help his prayers to be answered promptly. Asghari,...
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on four Israeli settlers as President Joe Biden said violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank had reached intolerable levels....
Turkish police on Thursday released seven workers taken hostage by a pro-Palestinian gunman at a plant near Istanbul owned by US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble in protest at the war in...
The United Nations and its partners on Thursday launched an appeal for $4 billion in aid this year for Yemen, devastated by nearly a decade of war and conflict. The UN...
21:37 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage from day 119 of the Hamas-Israel war. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis, right here at L'Orient...
BEIRUT — For weeks, pressure has mounted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to prioritize the release of the remaining 132 hostages held in Gaza since the Hamas-led...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 118 of the Israel-Hamas war here . As cross-border attacks continued between...
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
