BEIRUT — Former President Michel Aoun said Tuesday that Lebanon would need to wait "three to four years" to know the quantities of any gas in offshore blocks, following a landmark maritime border...
The Taliban authorities on Tuesday ordered a nationwide ban on university education for women, as the hardline Islamists continue to crush Afghan women’s right to education and freedom....
MOSCOW — Russian companies are interested in cooperating with Iran on gas turbine technology and joint production, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said in a statement on Tuesday....
ZURICH — Federal prosecutors in Switzerland have accused a man of running a "media agency" to promote al-Qaeda and Islamic State via social media and raising money to help escape...
US forces have arrested a "senior official" from the Islamic State group and five other jihadists in raids in eastern Syria over two days, the US military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said Tuesday....
BEIRUT — French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Tuesday called on Lebanese politicians to act to allow "the rapid election" of a new president in Lebanon. "Our concern is that Lebanese...
Will Tehran and Riyadh talk to each other? This seems to be the question of the second Baghdad conference that opened Tuesday in Amman.Officially, this second summit aims to continue the dialogue...
“Hezbollah respects Resolution No. 1701,” which was aimed at ending the 2006 war, Nabil Kaouk, a member of Hezbollah’s political bureau, said on Sunday. Kaouk was commenting on the tragedy that...
BEIRUT — A scuffle broke out on Tuesday in a branch of the Crédit Libanais bank in Corniche al-Nahr, Beirut, during an action led by a depositor, accompanied by activists, to recover his blocked...
LONDON — Britain accused Russia of planning to give Iran advanced military components in exchange for hundreds of drones, British defence minister Ben Wallace said on Tuesday, calling...
A race took place at the Beirut hippodrome on Sunday at noon.Under the December sun, a few dozen bettors came to revive the place for three or four hours. Time seems to be frozen here, between the...
The Lebanese lira broke a new depreciation record on the parallel market Tuesday, while the authorities have still not adopted reforms to curb the economic and financial crisis that has paralyzed...
French President Emmanuel Macron called for Iraq to be allowed to choose a path not dictated by foreign powers, in an address Tuesday to a summit aimed at helping to resolve Middle East crises....
BEIRUT — On Tuesday, the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, Walid Bukhari, met with Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai in Bkerki. For weeks now, Rai has been insisting on the need to organize an...
A Saturday evening in December in Downtown Beirut. The ballet of luxury cars crowds the road without respite, as the end of the year celebrations approach. On the terraces of the posh...
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi on Tuesday urged the release of Taraneh Alidoosti, who has starred in four of his films, after the actor's arrest for supporting the three-month protest movement....
Turkey on Tuesday slammed Sweden's refusal to extradite a reporter that Ankara has demanded in exchange for its ratification of Stockholm's NATO membership. Turkish...
BEIRUT — In many secular, Lebanese Christian and other faith households alike, Christmas occupies a special place: Christmas lights wrap around trees, lighting up streets lined with nativity...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi issued a circular Tuesday calling on security forces and Beirut and Mount Lebanon governorates to take "repressive and firm measures"...
BEIRUT — The World Bank awarded an $8.86 million grant to Lebanon on Tuesday to launch a project on waste management. The grant announcement comes as Lebanon continues to struggle with an...
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday condemned Iran's support for Russia in its war in Ukraine and the ongoing repression of opposition in the country, but said the EU would continue to...
Iranian authorities have released one of the country's best known dissidents after he spent three months in jail as protests shook the country, his brother said. Majid...
A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted 103 retired admirals whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused last year of eyeing a "coup," state media reported. They appeared in...
Tunisian police have arrested former prime minister Ali Larayedh, his Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party said Tuesday, accusing authorities of trying to divert attention from calls for President Kais...
The Energy Ministry announced new decreased fuel prices on Tuesday. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL735,000, down by LL12,000. • Twenty liters of 98-octane...
Palestinians on Tuesday held a general strike and demonstrations across the occupied West Bank following the death of a militant jailed by Israel and later diagnosed with cancer. Israel's prison...
Suspected jihadists on motorbikes stormed a village north of Baghdad late Monday and killed eight Iraqi civilians, officials said. There was no immediate claim for the...
BEIRUT — Ever since Yehya Hijazi and his two sons were detained in 2012 by the Syrian government, their relatives had clung to the hope they were still alive and might be released one day. But...
Forces of Change, Free Patriotic Movement, Kataeb, Lebanese Forces and Progressive Socialist Party MPs, in cooperation with KAFA, an NGO combating misogynistic violence, proposed a unified...
French President Emmanuel Macron called for Iraq to be allowed to choose a path not dictated by foreign powers, in an address Tuesday to a summit aimed at helping to resolve Middle East crises....
Israeli shelling overnight targeted the Damascus area, Syrian state media said Tuesday, adding that air defenses had intercepted some of the missiles. The Syria official...
Tunisia's electoral board revised the turnout in parliamentary elections slightly upwards to 11.2 percent on Monday, a poll that opposition groups said undermined President Kais Saied. 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?
