BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea said on Thursday that "22 MPs can lead to the election" of a president, implying a vote in favor of MP Michel Moawad, after a third parliamentary...
Iranian personnel have been on the ground in Russian-occupied Crimea helping Moscow's forces conduct attacks on Ukraine with Iran-made drones, the White House said Thursday. "We assess that...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that there was an opportunity to repair ties with arch-foe Armenia, linking it with the normalization underway between Yerevan and Ankara's...
JERUSALEM — Graffiti with the name of a 15th-century Swiss knight has been discovered in Jerusalem, carved into the walls of a building where pilgrims stayed, the Israel Antiquities Authority said...
BEIRUT — On a Friday evening in October, students, faculty, and family gather at the American University of Beirut to pay tribute to the late Robert Saliba, a longtime professor until he died...
Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria are to hand over around 40 Russian children, who are relatives of suspected ISIS group members, for repatriation Thursday, a Kurdish official said. “Today...
Even in Lebanon, a country accustomed to foreign interference, Saudi Ambassador to Beirut Walid Bukhari’s remarks came as a surprise to many. “The Taif Agreement is a binding contract to...
VIENNA — Austria on Thursday confirmed the arrest of one its citizens in Iran, a day after the semi-official Fars news agency said Iranian security forces had arrested 14 foreigners "in recent...
LONDON — Liz Truss announced Thursday she is resigning as prime minister, brought down by her economic program that sent shockwaves through the markets and divided her Conservative Party just six...
BEIRUT — The Constitutional Council ruled Thursday on five of the 15 appeals to invalidate the election results of last May's parliamentary elections in Lebanon, which had been submitted to the...
Zgharta MP Michel Douaihy has broken away from the parliamentary bloc of the 13 MPs representing the protest movement — a development that highlights the growing differences among the Forces of...
Shops, offices and schools were closed across the occupied West Bank on Thursday as Palestinians went on strike to protest Israel’s killing of a man suspected of a deadly attack against Israeli...
Iman Jalloul speaks very fast, too fast. “I’m not going to take up too much of your time. Besides, my eyesight is no longer perfect,” she said, intimidated by the politicians, doctors, activists...
BEIRUT — The Anti-Narcotics Division of the Lebanese Customs Administration seized roughly one million Captagon pills in the port of Beirut, caretaker Minister of Interior and Municipalities Bassam...
A 15-year-old Iranian girl died last week after being beaten during a security forces raid on her school, a teachers' union said, urging the authorities to stop killing "innocent" protesters. Asra...
Lawyers for Mahsa Amini's family have rejected the official Iranian medical report that found her death was not caused by beatings, they said in comments published on Thursday. Amini, 22, died on...
One of Egypt's newest prisons, presented as a model by authorities, has only replicated "cruel and inhuman conditions" in facilities previously used to house political opponents, Amnesty...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new fuel prices Thursday morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL753,000, down by LL3,000 • Twenty...
13:05 Beirut Time This concludes our live coverage of the Parliament's third unfruitful session to elect a new president. After a round of voting in which no president was elected,...
BEIRUT — The first cholera death was recorded in Akkar Wednesday night in the governmental hospital of Halba, according to L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the region. The victim was a...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Thursday that he will call for consecutive parliamentary sessions if MPs fail Thursday to elect a successor to President Michel Aoun, whose...
DUBAI — Iran sanctioned several British individuals and institutions Wednesday for their "deliberate actions in support of terrorism, incitement of violence, and human rights violations," Iran's...
Two days before a fire ripped through a section of Iran's Evin prison and killed at least eight people, a riot police unit arrived at the compound and began to patrol the corridors, shouting "God...
PARIS — France said Thursday it carried out a new operation to return French nationals — 40 children and 15 women — from Kurdish-run camps in northeastern Syria. In September, the European Court...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Parliament is scheduled to convene today for a third attempt at electing a successor to President Michel Aoun, amid protests...
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian gunman wanted by Israel for a lethal Oct. 8 attack at a Jerusalem checkpoint was killed Wednesday while carrying out another shooting outside a Jewish settlement in the...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
