BEIRUT —Following an accusation by the local newspaper Al Akhbar on Friday that “an officer and agents of the State Security Service tortured a Syrian detainee during interrogation and beat him to...
AMMAN — Israel has intensified strikes on Syrian airports to disrupt Tehran's increasing use of aerial supply lines to deliver arms to allies in Syria and Lebanon including Hezbollah, regional...
BEIRUT — Several family members of those arrested in the Beirut port explosion file protested Friday in front of the house of the President of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Suhail Abboud, to...
The tragic Saturday road accident that claimed the lives of George al-Rassi, a popular singer, and Zeina Merhebi, a fellow passenger in the car, has brought to the forefront road safety challenges...
Since the beginning of the crisis, the Lebanese lira has lost over 95 percent of its value. Inflation is exponential: a few days ago, the World Bank reported that Lebanon had experienced the...
BEIRUT — A sit-in was held in front of the Interior Ministry in Beirut, organized by the Alternative Press Syndicate, in solidarity with the photojournalist Hasan Shaaban after several threats he...
The average occupancy rate for four- and five-star hotels in Beirut in the first half of 2022 hit 45.5 percent, up from 36.7 percent during the same period in 2021, and compared to an average rate...
BEIRUT — The prices of gasoline and diesel have seen a sharp increase on Friday afternoon in Lebanon, in the context of rapid depreciation of the national currency against the dollar on the...
BEIRUT — Staggering levels of unemployment and a state of “acute vulnerability” characterize Lebanon’s youth, a report released Thursday by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies shows. A survey...
BEIRUT — A row of dumpsters sits at the edge of a triangular intersection in Bourj Hammoud, baking in the sun. In the late August heat, the garbage is fermenting and the smell is rising in the...
A failed putsch on Aug. 19 to Aug. 21, 1991 saw a handful of conservative communists try to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. In the aftermath, however, neither Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nor his...
BEIRUT — Dozens of supporters of jihadist sheikh Ahmad al-Assir , who is serving prison time for his role in deadly 2013 clashes in Saida, held a sit-in after Friday prayers in front of Saida's...
BEIRUT — Following an accusation made by local Al Akhbar newspaper on Friday that “an officer and members of the State Security Service tortured a Syrian detainee during his interrogation and beat...
It is anything but a surprise, but at least it has the merit of being official: In a letter sent to the Lebanese authorities and leaked on Thursday, the International Monetary Fund said that the...
BEIRUT — Public school teachers held multiple sit-ins across Lebanon on Friday morning, including at the Ministry of Finance headquarters in Beirut, to demand an increase in their salaries, which...
BEIRUT — Gas stations will be forced to close to stop the "hemorrhage" of lost revenue as the lira further plummeted Friday morning, Gas Station Owners' Syndicate spokesperson George Brax told...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira continued on Friday morning its depreciation on the parallel market, trading at more than LL35,000 against the dollar. Here's what we know: • According...
BEIRUT — For 26-year-old Farah Baba, Beirut’s worsening water shortages have become an increasing drain on her time and energy. The communications officer with an NGO, who lives with her parents in...
Here are the new fuel prices announced this Friday, Sept. 2 by the Lebanese Ministry of Energy : - 20 liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL603,000 (+ LL2,000) - 20 liters of 98-octane gasoline:...
REUTERS — Iran has sent a "constructive" response to U.S. proposals aimed at reviving Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, Iran's Foreign Ministry said, prompting a less positive...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad said yesterday that cancer medications that had been donated to the ministry had...
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
