BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army seized in Tripoli (North Lebanon) about 500,000 Captagon pills hidden in the tire of a truck that was heading to Turkey and then to Iraq, L'Orient Today's correspondent...
BEIRUT — The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva on Tuesday said after meeting with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati that the IMF is "eager" to achieve a...
In his speech on Saturday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah appeared unusually calm and patient as he addressed the negotiations on the demarcation of the maritime border with Israel.Psychological...
BEIRUT — Abdel Rahman Zakaria and Mohammad Rustom, who have been detained since Friday for helping the depositor responsible for the holdup in Blom Bank in the Sodeco neighborhood of Beirut,...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Michel Aoun said Tuesday that he will work to "form a government with full powers" able to assume the duties of the president after October 31, the date of...
NICOSIA — Cyprus authorities late on Monday and early on Tuesday rescued hundreds of migrants who had left Lebanon and were stranded at sea in two separate incidents, officials said. Authorities...
BEIRUT — A US court has ordered Hezbollah to pay damages to Americans who said they were wounded physically and emotionally and had their properties damaged by rockets the group fired during the...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday scheduled a plenary session for Monday, September 26 at 10:30 a.m., to continue voting on the 2022 budget, the state-owned National News Agency...
BEIRUT — Financial aid to support Lebanese army personnel salaries is in "its final organizational phase," UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka announced on Monday, following years of...
“There are calls for unity around a president, and we call for a consensus on a name, away from vetoes,” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said during a speech Saturday in Baalbek. Not only did he...
TRIPOLI — Over the noodlings of a local blues rock band, a crowd trickled into the normally closed-off Rachid Karami International Fair complex at dusk on an early September day. The musicians were...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira continued its fluctuation on the parallel market Tuesday afternoon, trading at around LL38,000 against the dollar. That was a step down from Tuesday morning when...
NABLUS — Palestinian gunmen clashed with Palestinian Authority security forces in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and one man was killed in the confrontations, which broke out after the arrest of...
The UN has decried the “violent response” to protests sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody in Iran. Protests triggered by the death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa...
Banks across Lebanon closed their branches Monday in response to a spate of holdups last week by depositors attempting to seize their own funds. The closures are expected to last through...
BEIRUT — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation led by the organization’s mission chief for Lebanon, Ernesto Ramirez-Rigo, started a three-day visit to Beirut on Monday to meet with...
BEIRUT — The Ministry of Energy announced new fuel prices on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Here's what we know: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline are now LL700,000, up by LL15,000 • Twenty...
BEIRUT —The Lebanese Army on Monday night arrested Syrian singer Wadih El Cheikh and his armed bodyguards as they tried to force their way into the emergency room of Raee Hospital in Saida, our...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday in New York, where Amir-Abdollahian reaffirmed Iran's willingness to supply...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The Lebanese Army arrested protesters after tensions escalated at a demonstration outside the Justice Palace Monday evening....
BEIRUT — Lebanon said on Monday it will take over Novatek's 20 percent share in a consortium licensed to explore two offshore oil and gas blocks after the Russian gas giant decided to quit. The...
BEIRUT — The army stopped a group of irregular migrants who were intending to set out from the northern Lebanon border village Arida by sea Monday night, L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the...
BEIRUT — “I have been struggling with depression for as long as I can remember,” says Rayane, who declined to give her real name due to the sensitivity of the subject and to protect the privacy of...
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
