Five people, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza strip, medics told Reuters on Saturday. Earlier today the...
Pope Francis on Saturday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study...
Two U.S. senators introduced bipartisan legislation on Friday that would impose sanctions on Turkey, citing concerns over military action by that country or groups that it backs, in northern Syria....
BEIRUT — A white Mercedes speeding through downtown Beirut deliberately struck a police officer on Saturday, as captured in a shocking video widely shared online. The footage shows the car hitting...
Hamas and two other Palestinian groups, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said on Saturday that a Gaza cease-fire deal with Israel is "closer than ever,"...
The Islamist-led fighters who overthrew President Bashar al-Assad nearly two weeks ago on Saturday named Assaad al-Shibani as foreign minister in the transitional government. "The general command...
A drone attack on a car in northeastern Syria attributed to the Turkish military has killed three civilians, a media report and Kurdish security forces said on Saturday. The strike came after two...
Lebanese Civil Defense teams recovered Saturday the body of Ali Zaher, a resident of Khiam in the Marjayoun district, who Israel killed during the last war, our correspondent in southern Lebanon...
On the eastern border of Barr Elias, not far from Zahleh, is the largest wastewater treatment plant in the Bekaa Valley.Built right next to the local landfill and a stone's throw from the Litani...
At the Lebanese border crossing of Masnaa in the Bekaa, many more cars are coming from Syria to Lebanon than those going the other way. Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, dozens of...
For the second day, the Civil Defense Department continued its search for four more bodies in a collapsed building in the Haret Hreik district of Beirut's southern suburbs. The previous day, three...
As Israel has been striking targets linked to Iran or Hezbollah in Syria for several years, its bombing campaign against military sites of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has intensified following the...
Civil society associations in Saida, the capital of southern Lebanon, organized a rubble-clearing campaign on Saturday morning in Sour, which was severely bombed by the Israeli army during the war...
Protestant MP Melhem Khalaf pointed the finger on Saturday at “foggy and unproductive” negotiations for the Lebanese presidential election, while a parliamentary election session has been set for...
Is Israel's campaign now turning towards Yemen? The attack had been in preparation for some time. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, Israel launched a new wave of strikes against the Houthis....
In recent days, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati spent half his time on the plane. On Dec. 12, he began a tour that took him to Italy, the Vatican, Turkey and Egypt. In addition to his...
A poll made by Israel’s Channel 13 found that 75 percent of the respondents expressed trust for the army. According to the poll, the trust in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is at 29...
The Lebanese Army took control of several strategic sites previously held by armed Palestinian factions in the Bekaa region on Saturday morning, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the...
Born in Raqqa, Syria, in 1961, Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the most productive Syrian intellectuals. Arrested at the age of 19 for belonging to the Communist Party-Political Bureau, which was not...
An Israeli military convoy of about 20 vehicles has stormed the occupied West Bank village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, the Palestinian Information Center reported Saturday morning. One child was...
A Lebanese Army border post was razed to the ground by the Israeli army in the village of Naqoura, South Lebanon, on Saturday. The information, relayed by local media, was confirmed to L'Orient-Le...
Could the fears of religious minorities in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime and the rise to power of the Islamist rebels of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) finally be well-founded? Several...
In a press release issued on Saturday, the Lebanese Army Command announced that its specialized units would be detonating unexploded Israeli munitions from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Baalbeck region,...
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Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a missile attack in central Israel on Saturday, after the Israeli military acknowledged failing to intercept a projectile that hit Tel Aviv....
Once again, the key is in the hands of Nabih Berri. The official support of Walid Joumblatt and his party for the candidacy of Joseph Aoun has shaken up the presidential race. But this support,...
20:06 Beirut Time Two U.S. senators i ntroduced bipartisan legislation yesterday that would impose sanctions on Turkey, citing concerns over military action by that country or...
The small one-room one-window apartment in Sabra was cramped. The walls were chipped, the water and electricity unreliable, and the $200 rent — for a south Beirut neighborhood regularly bombed by...
BEIRUT — It’s been over two years since Lebanon reached a staff-level agreement (SLA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to unlock a $3 billion aid package, contingent on the implementation...
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
