BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam issued a circular on Thursday addressed to "all public institutions and state-affiliated establishments asking them to submit their accounts for an internal...
Hamas on Thursday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of "procrastinating" on negotiations for the second phase of a fragile cease-fire in Gaza, after Palestinian militants returned...
BEIRUT — Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Taymour Joumblatt called for the liberation of the territories in southern Lebanon still occupied by the Israeli army after the scheduled date for...
BEIRUT — Amal Movement MP Ali Hassan Khalil, right-hand man of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, told al-Mayadeen on Wednesday that when Berri learned of former Hezbollah leader Hassan...
BEIRUT — The information still isn't official, but word is spreading that nearly the 14 months of Israeli attacks will cost Lebanon $14 billion in reconstruction. Government sources leaked the...
In its first edition, the AUF Dolla Karam Sarkis Prize honored two young researchers from Saint Joseph University (USJ): Dr. Alain Chebli, a lecturer-researcher in genetics at the faculty of...
BEIRUT — Lebanon saw a sharp drop in foreign tourist arrivals in 2024, with numbers falling to 1,131,100 — a 32.1 percent decrease from 1,666,492 in 2023 and down 22.8 percent from 1,465,953 in...
A week after tensions flared between Hezbollah supporters and Lebanese authorities over a ban on Iranian planes landing in Lebanon amid Israeli threats, a video circulating on social media shows a...
The team from the Department of Human Genetics at the Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine at the Lebanese American University (LAU) has identified a rare genetic disease linked to...
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather Sunday in Beirut's southern suburbs for the funeral of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and his presumed successor Hashem...
After four decades behind bars, Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah remains in legal limbo as the Paris Court of Appeal postponed its decision Thursday on his potential release to June 19....
Left abandoned for nearly five years, the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium has suddenly found a new purpose. The nearly 70-year-old stadium, the largest of its kind in the country, is hard to...
Four ultra-Orthodox Israelis were arrested by the Israeli army after illegally crossing the border into Lebanon on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, Israeli media report. They allegedly threw...
During a two-day visit to Qatar, Antoine Habib, CEO of Banque de l'Habitat (the Housing Bank), secured a commitment on Feb. 19 from the Qatari government for a $100 million loan to support the...
The Iranian embassy in Beirut said on Wednesday that the deportations of Iranian citizens upon their arrival at Rafik-Hariri International Airport (RHIA) were limited measures, applied “on a...
The incidents that followed the ban on an Iranian plane landing at Beirut airport have laid bare increasingly evident divisions within Hezbollah.While it remains difficult at this stage to fully...
All of Beirut shook on the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2024, already heavy with unease, when a sudden roar of Israeli F-15s tore through the sky. Moments later, they released 85 bombs, each weighing 900...
Volodymyr Zelensky was due to meet on Thursday with U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian leader a "dictator" and said Russia "holds the cards" in...
Israel is determined to step up pressure on Iran. According to U.S. intelligence reports from early January, Israeli officials plan to target Iran’s two main nuclear sites in the coming months —...
Yemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani called on Wednesday for the arrest of a group of leaders from Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis who he said will attend Lebanese Hezbollah chief Hassan...
BEIRUT — The Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) plans to sue the Lebanese state for unpaid interests associated with eurobonds – U.S.-denominated debt instruments – held by various member banks,...
Winter took its time this year, as though the sky wanted to let us fully enjoy this moment of carefreeness and hope — two words that had long disappeared from our universe. Who could have believed,...
Assassinations, airstrikes, internal unrest, massive crowds — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri recently assured that the burial of Hassan Nasrallah "will proceed calmly" and that "the army and...
The Israeli military said it had received the bodies of the deceased hostages handed over by Hamas, through the Red Cross, in Gaza on Thursday. "The hostages' bodies were handed over to...
The European Union is set to suspend Syria sanctions related to energy, transport and reconstruction, according to a draft declaration seen by Reuters. EU foreign ministers are expected to...
More than $50 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza after the 15-month Israel-Hamas conflict in the Palestinian enclave, according to an assessment released by the United Nations, the European...
A waterspout was seen Thursday off the coast of Batroun-Herri in northern Lebanon, reports our correspondent, as Storm Adam is expected in the country. No injuries or damage have been reported so...
20:46 Beirut Time U.S. and the region According to Middle East Eye, a U.S. official told Al Jazeera that Israel is pressuring Washington to take a more active role in the Middle East,...
Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR)...
Israel braced on Thursday for the return of the bodies of infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinian...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• The release of four bodies by Hamas as part of the...
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
