A delegation headed by Fouad Zmokhol, president of the International Confederation of Lebanese Businessmen (Midel), met on Monday with the Algerian ambassador to Lebanon, Rachid Belbaki, to thank...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Minister of Information Ziad Makary and the UNESCO office in Beirut announced on Monday a new initiative for the archive digitilization of Lebanon's only public television...
Britain said Monday it would suspend some arms exports to Israel, citing a "clear risk" that they could be used in a serious breach of international humanitarian law. The announcement follows a...
BEIRUT — “A speech that passes through Tel Aviv does not pass through Ain al-Tineh or Haret Hreik,” Mufti Ahmad Qabalan said Monday, addressing Sunday’s comments by Samir Geagea, leader of the...
You are a tax lawyer and a member of the Lebanese Association for Taxpayers' Rights and Information (ALDIC). You recently participated in the drafting of a proposal and a bill, two texts that...
BEIRUT — Turkish intelligence forces thwarted an operation to smuggle "a large and diverse amount of drugs coming from Lebanon via Syria," the Turkish Ikhlas Agency reported Monday. "The...
Benefiting from “humanitarian pauses” in the midst of the war in Gaza, the polio vaccination campaign was officially launched on Sunday in the Palestinian enclave, the first vaccinations having...
- Nearly 200 Lebanese depositors attacked banks in the Dora district of northern Beirut during a protest organized by the Depositors’ Outcry group last Thursday, demanding “that their stolen...
BEIRUT — The process of unloading gas oil into the storage tanks of the Deir Ammar thermal plant began Monday morning, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the north. The plant...
“Tomorrow is ours.” This was the slogan Samir Geagea, head of the Lebanese Forces (LF), chose for this year’s memorial mass honoring his party’s “martyrs.” As Hezbollah — having joined the war in...
Following Hezbollah’s response to the assassination of its military chief, Fouad Shukur, and a subsequent speech by party leader Hassan Nasrallah, clashes between Hezbollah and Israel in southern...
BEIRUT — Residents of the coastal town of Jiyyeh and neighboring villages in the Chouf district awoke to find leaflets scattered on the roads early Sunday morning, a source at the Jiyyeh...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) arrested a suspect in a drug trafficking case and seized a suspicious parcel sent from South America, the ISF said in a statement Monday....
A Lebanese man identified as A.Z. was arrested Sunday in Chiyah, a southern suburb of Beirut, for appearing in a social media video where he directed insults and provocations at the Lebanese Army,...
A man with connections to Palestinian Islamic Jihad was targeted by a masked gunman on Sunday in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Saida in southern Lebanon, according to our correspondent...
Municipal services in several Israeli districts were disrupted on Monday after the country's biggest labor union launched a general strike to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into...
At least 40,786 Palestinians have been killed and 94,224 wounded in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, the enclave's health authorities said on Monday.
Indonesia and the United States on Monday began two weeks of annual military exercises involving more than 4,500 personnel, aimed at boosting operational skills as Washington seeks to shore-up ties...
The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with Israel and Hamas agreeing to brief pauses in their...
Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his New Zealand counterpart Chris Luxon on Monday said they were united in calling for an immediate cease-fire in the conflict in Gaza and finding a...
President Joe Biden will sit down on Monday with U.S. negotiators pushing for a hostage-release deal in the Gaza war, the White House said, after the deaths of six captives in Gaza, including an...
22:02 Beirut Time This concludes our live coverage for today. Thank you for joining us and be sure to return tomorrow for the latest updates. Goodnight! 22:00 Beirut Time...
Several U.S. Democratic lawmakers renewed calls for an Israeli-Hamas cease-fire on Sunday in reaction to the killing of six hostages in a tunnel under Gaza, while Republicans criticized President...
A nationwide strike aimed at ramping up pressure on Israel's government to secure the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza was set to begin Monday. The call by Israel's largest union to...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Sept. 9, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 9:00 AM: The Cabinet will meet at the Grand...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Sept. 2, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 10:30 a.m.: A delegation from the Strong Lebanon...
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
