Lebanese students will stay home on Tuesday following Monday’s nationwide school closures ordered by Education Minister Rima Karameh. The order affected all public and private schools, as well as...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for restraint as clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon intensified amid the Israeli and U.S. war on the armed group's main backer...
Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed at least 52 people and wounded 154 on Monday, the Lebanese government said in an updated toll. A previous toll shared by the Health Ministry said 31 people were...
BEIRUT — The Iranian-made drones that targeted a British military base in Cyprus were sent from neighboring Lebanon, likely by Hezbollah, a Cypriot government source told AFP . "It has been...
BEIRUT — A surge in oil prices, major disruptions to air traffic, heightened risk expectations for global trade…After a weekend of Israeli-American strikes on Iran and retaliatory moves by Tehran,...
The head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammad Raad, issued a statement Monday in which he criticized the government's decision to ban all "military and security activities"...
Qatar's air force shot down two aircraft inbound from Iran on Monday, Doha's defense ministry said in a statement after the Islamic republic earlier targeted gas facilities in the Gulf...
It is an endless cycle. Displaced people scattered in the streets. Cars packed with belongings grabbed in haste before fleeing.Those same schools reopening their doors yet again to shelter...
Diversions, delays and cancellations, closed airspace: the war that has been raging in the Middle East since Saturday between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other is...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army warned Monday morning that it would “intensify” its strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon. “The strikes are continuing and their intensity will increase,” Northern Command...
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad's armed wing said on Monday that its commander in Lebanon was killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs. In a statement, the Quds Brigades said...
The damage is done. By launching its first attack on Israel since November 2024, Hezbollah has triggered a strong Israeli response, impacting Lebanon as a whole and putting its authorities in a...
As Israeli strikes pound south Lebanon and ripple into Beirut’s southern suburbs and the Bekaa, some families are once again loading their belongings into cars and fleeing north. Others are making...
The United Arab Emirates said it will resume "limited" flights at Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports on Monday, which were cancelled after Iran began striking targets in the Gulf – including...
Despite the ongoing Israeli military escalation, the Ministry of Energy and Water has maintained its routine and released the new tariff schedule for private generators. It has set the price of one...
Israel's military chief Eyal Zamir on Monday warned that his country would strike "all terrorist leaders and factions" across the Middle East, vowing to deal a severe blow to Lebanese...
After more than a year of enduring daily Israeli strikes, Hezbollah finally broke its restraint... to avenge Ali Khamenei. From Sunday night into Monday, the militia launched projectiles toward...
The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon renewed its call for citizens to leave Lebanon immediately as the Middle East war expanded to Lebanon. "We urge U.S. citizens not to travel to Lebanon. If you are...
The union of gas distributors said in a statement relayed by the state-run National News Agency that stocks in Lebanon were sufficient for one month and that three ships carrying gas were...
On Saturday, Feb. 28, Israel and the U.S. launched an unprecedented attack on Iran, targeting military infrastructure and key figures of the regime, including Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei....
The Israeli military said it killed the head of Hezbollah's intelligence services, Hussein Moukalled, in a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday. "The IDF now confirms that in...
Israeli settlers killed two brothers in an attack on the occupied West Bank village of Qaryut on Monday that also injured three people, the Ramallah-based Health Ministry and Palestinian Red...
The Order of Pharmacists of Lebanon has announced that it has taken preventive measures to ensure the availability of medicines on the Lebanese market, as Israel intensified its strikes on Lebanon...
An Iranian drone hit the runway of a UK air force base in Cyprus on Monday hours after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain would not join the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. He said that...
Saudi Arabia's military raised its readiness levels after multiple attacks by Iran, a source close to the army told AFP on Monday, while another warned of a possible military response if its...
So far, there is no sign that the regime in Iran is collapsing, and U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is ready to cooperate and reach an understanding with the "new...
BEIRUT — The government on Monday banned all “military and security actions” by Hezbollah, a day after the party fired rockets at Haifa in northern Israel, leading to a large-scale Israeli...
Since the morning of Feb. 28, 2026, unprecedented developments have been unfolding at lightning speed across the Middle East. Within hours, Washington and Tel Aviv launched a war against Iran,...
Contacted by L’Orient-Le Jour, Nabil Fahed, president of the supermarket owners' syndicate, said that there is mainly pressure on supermarkets located in the suburbs of Beirut, even on the...
In downtown Beirut on Monday morning, displaced families were unsure where to go. “I wish Lebanon had stayed out of all of this,” said a resident of Bir al-Abed, a southern suburb of the capital...
The Israeli military, which has carried out dozens of strikes on the South and the Bekaa, as well as a new bombardment of Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, has no immediate plan for a ground...
The Directorate General of Lebanese General Security (GS) warned on Monday against "the risks associated with the use" of several applications or games affiliated with Israel, in order to...
Oil and gas prices soared while stocks fell in Asia on Monday after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran sent investors fleeing the prospect of an extended conflict in the crude-rich Middle East, after the...
A new Israeli strike hit the southern suburb of Beirut on Monday, where the Israeli army said it had "precisely" targeted a "senior official" of Hezbollah in a recent strike on...
The governmental hospital of Mais al-Jabal (Marjayoun district) was fully evacuated of its staff after doctors and employees received threats from the Israeli army on their phones, the head of the...
While the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is a major geopolitical rupture, it’s also a part of a longer sequence rooted in the very architecture designed to shield the Islamic...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, March 2, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today: Israeli strikes on Lebanon, displacement of people...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, March 3, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today: Israeli strikes on Lebanon, displacement of people...
Lebanese Justice Minister Adel Nassar on Monday urged the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Jamal Hajjar, and the government commissioner to the military court to assign security forces...
The US embassy in Kuwait said Monday that people should not come to the facility, as an AFP correspondent saw smoke rising from the diplomatic mission on Iran's third day of retaliatory Gulf...
Israel's military chief Eyal Zamir said their attacks on Lebanon, which began early Monday, could take "many" more days. "We have launched an offensive campaign against...
06:48 Beirut Time Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs Following evacuation orders for buildings in Ghobeiri, Haret Hreik, and Hadath, Israeli strikes targeted Beirut’s...
BEIRUT — Political condemnations poured in Monday morning after a night marked by massive Israeli strikes across the country, in response to earlier attacks by Hezbollah. Several political leaders...
Beirut’s corniche looked suspended in time on Sunday morning. For once, the war overtaking the region, including Gulf countries, felt far away. Even though Hezbollah had threatened to intervene if...
BEIRUT — Overnight to Monday, a series of Israeli strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs, the Bekaa and south Lebanon, killing over 31 people, after Hezbollah claimed “a volley of missiles and a...
BEIRUT, March 2 — Israel carried out heavy airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, after Hezbollah launched rockets towards Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's...
The Israeli military claimed on Monday that "projectiles fired from Lebanon triggered air raid sirens in northern Israel," adding it had intercepted one of them. "Following the...
A man and his three daughters were wounded by falling missile debris in Syria on Sunday from the exchange of fire between Iran and Israel over the country's airspace, Syrian state media...
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
