“As we demonstrated, Israel has the capability to defend itself,” an Israeli army spokesperson was saying last Friday before being interrupted by a voice over the intercom. It announced on repeat...
The USS Gerald R. Ford will depart for Europe next week, a Navy official said Friday, placing a third American aircraft carrier in closer proximity to the Middle East as Israel and Iran trade...
The Casino du Liban is reportedly facing money laundering accusations related to online gambling activities considered illegal, according to information reported by the Al Modon site on Thursday....
President Joseph Aoun said on Friday that "there will be no war," during the inauguration of a project at Martyrs' Square in the presence of First Lady Neemat Aoun. This project,...
U.S. interim ambassador to the U.N. Dorothy Shea said Friday that "the Iranian government encouraged Hezbollah to open a front from Lebanon." The Islamic Republic and Israel have been...
Presented at the Monnot Theater as part of the Beirut Spring Festival and in homage to the assassinated journalist Samir Kassir, the play "Jarret ghaz spéciale" opens a wide field of...
As the Middle Eastern sky ignites following the massive Israeli strikes on June 13 against Iranian targets, the U.N. Security Council has become the scene of a fierce diplomatic battle. On the eve...
Are the 2026 parliamentary elections really at risk? The question grows more pressing as debates over the electoral law drag on, with no indication that progress is on the horizon. Such was the...
BEIRUT — Risks of a spillover to Lebanon from the war between Iran and Israel, which broke out on June 13, are raising worries. This comes about seven months after the cease-fire agreement that...
In a video posted on social media, journalist Walid Abboud responded Friday to the controversy engendered by his remarks on his political show broadcast on Monday, June 16, on Hala Arabia TV. “If...
Dozens of protesters showed their solidarity with Iran on Friday in the southern suburbs of Beirut and Saida (South Lebanon), as the war between Israel and the Islamic Republic continues. In the...
The Iranian embassy in Lebanon categorically denied being the source of an event during which diatribes and insulting remarks against Saudi Arabia and its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin...
The president of economic organizations, one of Lebanon's main employers' associations, told Lebeconomy.com that the country could still save its tourism season, provided that the war...
European foreign ministers must take a "firm stance" in talks Friday with their Iranian counterpart on Tehran's nuclear programme, Israel's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva said....
Iran fires a new salvo of missiles on Israel, announced Friday afternoon by state television, on the eighth day of war between the two countries. "You see images of the sky over the occupied...
China condemned Britain on Friday for sending a navy ship through the Taiwan Strait, saying the move had "undermined peace and stability" in the sensitive waterway. Beijing views Taiwan...
These days, it has become fashionable among many commentators, as well as among a significant portion of the public, to place equal blame on both sides of the war currently unfolding in the Middle...
Among the world’s nine nuclear powers, Israel is the only one in the Middle East and the only one that has never officially acknowledged its arsenal. Israel’s nuclear program has always been...
The reasons behind the sharp dispute between the Parliamentary Committee on Administration and Justice chairman Georges Adwan and Justice Minister Adel Nassar remain unclear. However, some parties...
Photos showing radiant faces. Faces forever frozen in a smile betraying the desire to live, but whose publication on Iranian social media accounts announces death. During the long months following...
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva has raised "vehement objection" to Iran addressing the Human Rights Council ahead of talks with European counterparts in Geneva to...
With the arrival of Thomas Barrack, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and envoy to Syria, in Lebanon, Lebanese officials and political actors have been seeking to decipher his true mission. The latter had...
From Gaza to the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence against children in conflict zones reached "unprecedented levels" in 2024, a United Nations annual report said Thursday. "In...
Interior Minister, Ahmad Hajjar, and Public Works and Transport Minister, Fayez Rasamny, discussed on Friday the coordination between their ministries specifically in terms of streamlining the...
BEIRUT — The number of new construction permits dropped by 11 percent in 2024, according to figures issued by the Orders of Engineers and Architects of Beirut and Tripoli, and compiled by Byblos...
BEIRUT — The election of a new president and government in Lebanon presents a “critical opportunity to tackle its prolonged, multi-pronged crises through a comprehensive crisis-resolution plan,”...
Gaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the United Nations children's agency said Friday. In the Palestinian enclave, "children will start dying of thirst [...]...
A series of successive Israeli strikes targeted southern Lebanon early Friday afternoon, as Israel continued to push into Lebanese territory and eliminate Hezbollah commanders, whom it accused of...
The U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, stated Thursday from Beirut that an intervention by Hezbollah in the war between Iran and Israel would be a "very bad...
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more prisoners of war, the Russian defence ministry said on Friday, without specifying how many. It said the Russian soldiers were currently in Belarus, which...
Closing the Strait of Hormuz is considered a serious tool of deterrence at Iran's disposal. Facing ongoing Israeli aggression and sputtering diplomacy, Iran has repeatedly threatened to use its...
Journalist Walid Abboud has been trending on social media for 48 hours, praised and congratulated for his courage by some sovereignist internet users, but mostly threatened and accused of...
Everyone was awaiting June 16, the date set for the start of the disarmament process in Lebanon’s Palestinian camps. It is now clear that none of the planned measures materialized. This outcome had...
Thousands of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr rallied Friday in Baghdad and other cities against Israel's war with Iran, AFP correspondents said. "No to Israel! No to...
Thousands of people were protesting Friday against Israel in Tehran, following the weekly prayer, chanting slogans in support of their leaders, according to images broadcast by state television....
Paris, Berlin, and London will make "a comprehensive negotiation offer" to the Iranians in Geneva on Friday, including nuclear issues, ballistic activities, and the financing of terrorist...
BEIRUT —A statement released Thursday by Hezbollah deputy leader Nam Qassem, reaffirming his party’s solidarity with Iran in its war with Israel, has drawn sharp criticism from several Lebanese...
In a message read out on his behalf, a White House spokesperson announced on Thursday that Trump would make a decision about U.S. involvement in the war against Iran "within the next two...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrived in Istanbul Friday for a rare visit to Turkey, in what Yerevan has described as a "historic" step toward regional peace. Armenia and Turkey...
Iran's foreign minister will address the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday on the sidelines of talks with European counterparts aiming for a diplomatic solution to the Iran-Israel war. Abbas...
A Russian activist who helped collect humanitarian aid for Ukraine and evacuate Ukrainians from the war zone was sentenced on Friday to 22 years in prison by a Moscow military court, the RIA state...
For a few hours there, it seemed the Middle East was staring down the barrel of a total radioactive disaster. News was circulating that Iran's only operational nuclear power plant, located in...
Gaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the United Nations' children agency said on Friday. "Children will begin to die of thirst [...] Just 40% of drinking water...
Pro-Palestinian activists in Britain said they had broken into a Royal Air Force base in central England on Friday and damaged two military aircraft. The campaign group Palestine Action said that...
The Israeli military said on Friday it carried out strikes on dozens of military targets in Iran overnight, including the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research that it said is involved...
Oil prices tumbled Friday and equity traders fought to end a volatile week on a positive note after Donald Trump said he would consider over the next two weeks whether to join Israel's attacks...
Russian nuclear energy chief Alexei Likhachev said on Friday that the situation at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, where hundreds of Russian specialists work, was "normal" and...
A report by economists published Friday by the Vatican calls for "addressing debt crises" to give developing countries more leeway for their "essential investments."...
The diplomatic path is the only solution to sustainably resolve the issue of Iran's nuclear program, estimated the French Foreign Ministry spokesman on Friday, a few hours before a meeting on...
European shares rebounded on Friday after three sessions of declines, as a stall in the United States' involvement in the Middle East conflict came as a relief to worried investors. 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
