BEIRUT — Three fuel ships aimed at supplying Electricité du Liban (EDL) are currently waiting off the Lebanese coast to undergo quality testing before unloading their cargo in the coming days, the...
BEIRUT — A sevenfold increase in telecoms prices will come into effect on Sept. 1, in line with a recent Cabinet decision to raise fixed-line telephone and internet bills, public provider Ogero...
BEIRUT — The month-by-month consumer price index increased by 6.8 percent in July, according to the latest update posted by the government's Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) on Monday —...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused United Nations peacekeepers of instigating violence in which several members of the agency's mission were assaulted on the divided island of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Monday that a series of recent deadly attacks against Israelis has been funded and encouraged by Iran. "We are in the midst...
The United States on Monday voiced alarm over a Human Rights Watch report that Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and urged a full investigation. "We...
BEIRUT — The military court summoned four Hezbollah members Monday for investigation following a clash earlier this month that killed a village resident and a Hezbollah member, a Hezbollah...
Eight fighters died Monday in Russian air strikes targeting a rebel base in Syria's northwest, the last major bastion of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's rule, a war monitor said....
A tense calm held Monday in Cyprus after the United Nations accused Turkish Cypriot forces of assaulting peacekeepers attempting to block construction of a road in the buffer zone....
Arab local councils in Israeli-controlled territory held a strike on Monday in protest at the finance minister's freeze earlier this month on hundreds of millions of shekels to their...
Syrians in the country's rebel-held north on Monday marked the 10-year anniversary of chemical attacks that killed over 1,400 people near Damascus, one of the conflict's many horrors that went...
A French military trainer was killed in Iraq on Sunday during an exercise, the French presidency said. Nicolas Latourte "lost his life while accomplishing his mission,"...
Exactly ten years ago when more than 1,400 people, many of them children, were killed in an early morning sarin gas attack on al-Ghouta district, on Damascus’ outskirts. The violence of the strike,...
Photos circulated at the time showed dozens of lifeless bodies laid side by side in makeshift hospitals, with no trace of blood on them. Other residents of Ghouta died while they slept. When...
The process of releasing US prisoners held in Iran will take up to two months, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday during a press conference. "A specific time frame...
Inspired by her passion for the furry animal, Naeema Mea'bed opened the "MEOW Cat Cafe" in the Gaza Strip this week, hoping to bring cat lovers some joy, while boosting awareness on raising pets,...
An Israeli woman was killed in a suspected Palestinian shooting attack near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Monday, the Israeli military said. Israel's ambulance service said an Israeli...
Saudi border guards fired "like rain" on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross through Yemen into the Kingdom, killing hundreds since last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday....
Hundreds of Syrians staged a general strike on Sunday against deteriorating living conditions and price hikes, local media reported, amid a series of sporadic demonstrations in the country's...
After China's dialogue with Iran and Saudi Arabia, both countries have continued to take steps to improve relations, leading to the formation of a "wave of reconciliation" in the Middle East,...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Dozens of students protested a tuition hike at Lebanon’s only public university, Lebanese University (LU), which was necessary...
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
