BEIRUT — Two people were killed, 19 injured, including journalists, and more than 50 families displaced on Wednesday as the Israeli army carried out multiple strikes across southern Lebanon,...
The United States said it launched an operation Wednesday that could move thousands of Islamic State group jihadists from Syria to Iraq, as Syrian and Kurdish-led forces traded accusations of...
Beirut’s first investigating judge, Rula Osman, issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for Mustafa al-Hessian, also known as Abu Omar, reportedly a plumber from Akkar in northern Lebanon who allegedly...
Rifaat al-Assad, late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad's brother, died Wednesday at the age of 88, according to two sources cited by Reuters. He embodied the brutality of the Assad clan, which...
For the second year in a row, inflation has decreased in Lebanon in 2025, reaching its lowest annual rate since the start of the economic crisis in 2019, equivalent to 14.8 percent in 2025,...
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a group of Palestinians involved in civilian flotillas that aim to break Israel's sea blockade on Gaza, accusing it of working for Hamas....
Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's statement that he would not use force to take Greenland was positive despite Trump's...
An Israeli air strike killed an AFP freelancer and two other journalists in Gaza on Wednesday, the territory's civil defense agency said, while the military said it struck...
The Financial Stability and Deposit Recovery draft law — commonly known as the “ financial gap law” — has triggered a wave of criticism since the Cabinet adopted it on Dec. 26, 2025. But what...
On Jan. 16, Gracia Azzi was appointed as head of the Directorate of Customs, a decision that quickly reignited debate around accountability in Beirut. Azzi is implicated in the...
Criticism has intensified since Cabinet adopted the draft law aimed at restoring financial order and returning deposits and referred it to parliament in late December. However, this criticism has...
BEIRUT – President Joseph Aoun said Wednesday that parliamentary elections scheduled for May must be held on time, amid growing pressure to postpone until the summer over expatriate voting and...
Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh toured heritage sites in the coastal city of Saida (southern Lebanon) on Wednesday, including its archaeological museum, where work is ongoing, and an...
Describing the appointment of Gracia Azzi as head of the Customs Administration by Cabinet on Thursday, an official told L’Orient-Le Jour, “It’s the wrong appointment, yet again.”This appointment...
BEIRUT — Israeli fire killed five Palestinians, including two boys, in central and southern Gaza, local health authorities said. Palestinian medics said three people, including a 10-year-old boy,...
BEIRUT – The First Instance Court in Beirut issued a judgment on Friday fining former ministers Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zeaiter with 10 billion Lebanese Lira (the equivalent of over $100,000)...
BEIRUT — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Kurdish forces in northern Syria must lay down weapons and disband now to avoid further bloodshed, after Damascus struck a...
Reports of an incident between supporters of Amal and those of Hezbollah in Kfarhatta have raised concerns about the potential revival of what has been called the “war of brothers,” which took...
Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by many as the "butcher of Hama" for brutally crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before...
Thousands of U.S. workers and students marched through cities and university campuses on Tuesday in opposition to the immigration policies of President Donald Trump. On the first anniversary of...
Despite a cease-fire agreement signed Sunday between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Kurdish-led SDF forces, government troops on Tuesday made fresh advances across several fronts east of the...
BEIRUT — "Popular Action" within Hamas in Lebanon criticized on Wednesday the decision by UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for assisting Palestinian refugees in host...
“El fann mish metel el warde… el fann biwajje3 bas bikhalik tfaker.”Art is not a flower, Ziad Rahbani once implied; it hurts, unsettles, and forces thought. Very few Lebanese artists have been able...
The widow of Iran's former shah, Farah Pahlavi, has told AFP she believes there is "no turning back" following the latest wave of protests against the country's clerical...
The United States "is behaving very strangely" for an ally, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump steps up his campaign to take...
A year ago, just before the unpredictable Republican billionaire took office in Washington for a second term on Jan. 20, 2025, a long-awaited cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip...
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar met Wednesday morning in Bahrain with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, who reaffirmed "the Kingdom’s consistent stance in support of Lebanon," as...
"I always wanted to open a Lebanese restaurant," says Tarek Mansour right away, before listing his reasons: "First, to share Lebanese culture in the city of Noisy-le-Grand. And...
There are times in our lives that feel almost irrevocable. They return tirelessly, sweeping away the weariness built up over the years, fueled by a lack of hope or prospects. They are also points...
Syria's army on Wednesday entered the country's vast al-Hol detention camp holding relatives of suspected Islamic State fighters, from which Kurdish forces had withdrawn the previous day,...
22:26 Beirut Time This concludes our live coverage for the day. Check in tomorrow for more reporting from the region. 22:25 Beirut Time Berri urges national...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:10 a.m. Foreign Affairs Minister Joe Rajji...
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
