The Trump administration asked Israel to reduce "non‑urgent" military actions in Lebanon to back the Lebanese government's decision to begin disarming Hezbollah, two sources told...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday evening that he has given "instructions to immediately begin negotiations aimed at freeing all" Israeli hostages in Gaza, in...
A US court threw out Thursday a $464 million civil penalty against President Donald Trump imposed by a judge who found he fraudulently inflated his personal worth, calling the sum...
The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, under Hamas authority, announced Thursday that it had rejected calls from the Israeli army to evacuate hospitals in Gaza City to the south, in anticipation of...
BEIRUT — The Jounieh highway will be expanded at a cost of $40 million, announced MP Sajih Attieh after a Public Works Committee meeting attended by Public Works Minister Fayez Rasamny, El-Nashra...
BEIRUT — In a meeting of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc — the “Loyalty to the Resistance” — on Thursday, the attendees condemned, once again, the Lebanese government's decision to disarm...
BEIRUT — Disarmament began Thursday evening at the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian camp, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, in accordance with an agreement reached last May aimed at guaranteeing the...
The Gaza civil defence agency said at least 48 people were killed on Thursday by Israeli strikes in the Palestinian territory, including several killed in an air strike in Gaza City ahead of a...
BEIRUT — Kataeb party leader and MP Samy Gemayel said Thursday that Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is working to avoid internal tensions — a stance he described as "a necessary form of...
American envoy Tom Barrack welcomes launch of disarmament of Palestinian camps
BEIRUT — The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 1.32 percent in July, resulting in a slight slowdown in its year-on-year growth, according to the latest update published Thursday by the Central...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement on Thursday that it arrested three Lebanese people working as Valet Parking attendants at a restaurant in Aayoun al-Siman (Kesrouan...
Swedish jihadist Osama Krayem on Thursday appealed a life sentence handed down in July over the 2015 murder of a Jordanian pilot burned alive by the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. The...
BEIRUT — The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that Israeli citizen Saleh Abou Hussein, who had been held in Lebanon for about a year, has returned to Israel...
BEIRUT — A leader of the Palestinian organization Fateh, Chadi al-Far, was arrested Wednesday along with two other people by Lebanese Army intelligence services at the Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, a...
The Israeli military maintained its pressure on Gaza City with heavy bombardments overnight, residents said, ahead of a Thursday meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers...
BEIRUT — A person was killed on Thursday morning at the Islamic Hospital in Tripoli from injuries sustained after being stabbed several times by his wife a few days ago at their home in the village...
The Israeli army has begun calling hospitals and international organizations operating in the northern Gaza Strip, urging them to prepare to evacuate to the south ahead of a planned offensive to...
The Lebanese Army destroyed cannabis fields in the villages of Zarazir, Deir al-Ahmar and Shleefa, in North Bekaa, according to information from L'Orient Today's correspondent in the area....
The disarmament of Palestinian camps is underway, two months after its initial deadline. On Thursday evening, the Lebanese Army entered the Burj al-Barajneh camp, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, to...
BEIRUT — MP and head of the Kataeb Samy Gemayel, said on Thursday that Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is "trying not to create internal tension, which is necessary, and is a kind of...
Arab League Deputy Secretary-General Hossam Zaki said Thursday that “no one wants to see Lebanon sink into a situation with undesirable consequences” after meeting President Joseph Aoun at Baabda...
It was May 2004. In the hushed atmosphere at the Syrian consulate in Geneva, diplomats and journalists exchanged polite small talk. It was a dance of appearances, where everyone was expected to...
The Balaa sinkhole, the Afqa waterfall, the elegant Jezzine cascade, a slender yet powerful plume that shows the measure of the cliff it drops from. The Berdawni River in Zahleh, evoking feasts...
A 30-minute interview with Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai on the Saudi channel Al Arabiya was enough to once again inflame tensions between him and Hezbollah. Since Tuesday evening, the prelate...
In the entrance of his Achrafieh apartment, the bike leans against the wall like a silent witness to three and a half years of roads, borders, and landscapes.Samer Abou Hamad, 31, carries his...
Israel intensified pressure in southern Lebanon between Wednesday night and Thursday morning with a series of strikes, including a deadly drone attack and the unprecedented use of...
Lebanon’s state electricity provider, Électricité du Liban, said Thursday that its main transmission lines in several regions, particularly in the North and Akkar, were damaged by live gunfire....
A banner hung in the Hermel region accusing Prime Minister Nawaf Salam of collaborating with Israel has been widely shared on social media, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in...
Amid the rhythm of daily life, passersby have found themselves pausing — not for a call or a message, but for a small, colorful slip of paper that appears, almost magically, in their hands. In...
BEIRUT — Lebanese financial companies OMT and Whish on Wednesday denied rumors circulating on local media regarding possible U.S. sanctions against them, claiming that they are the target of a...
First lady Neemat Aoun visited the women's cancer center at Hôtel-Dieu de France (HDF) hospital in Beirut on Thursday, the first specialized center of its kind in Lebanon, according to a...
Israel hammered Gaza City and its outskirts overnight, residents said Thursday, after the defense ministry approved an expanded offensive to target the remaining Hamas strongholds in the strip....
On his fourth visit, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack reaffirmed Washington’s policy of pressure and follow-up, while signaling a tactical shift following the Lebanese government’s decision to limit the...
A group of 17 U.S. Senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday calling for the United States to press Israel to grant access and protection to journalists in Gaza. The...
President Donald Trump's administration has said it will assess applicants for U.S. work, study and immigration visas for "anti-Americanism" and count any such finding against them,...
"We had hoped to move to five days of teaching this year in public schools, but current circumstances do not allow it." The decision by Education Minister Rima Karameh to keep, for the...
Syria is now officially acknowledging it. A meeting between Assaad al-Shaibani, the Syrian foreign minister, and Ron Dermer, the Israeli minister for strategic affairs, took place Tuesday in Paris...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, after Israel announced the first steps of an operation to take over Gaza City. "It is...
22:25 Beirut Time 21 countries denounce Israel’s West Bank settlement plan A major Israeli plan for building 3,400 housing units in the occupied West Bank — seen as slicing the...
Israel is delivering a double blow to both Gaza and the West Bank. In the midst of indirect negotiations to hammer out a cease-fire agreement in Gaza, the Israeli army announced Wednesday that it...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:9 a.m.: Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar meets with...
Every Thursday, L’Orient Today, in partnership with The MYM Agenda , guides you through happenings across the Middle East that are actually worth your time. Consider this your weekly shortcut...
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
