BEIRUT — Lebanon's Beirut port customs on Friday seized nine million pills of Captagon concealed in bags of chickpeas that were bound for Kenya, caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced...
The Mount Lebanon Indictment Chamber, presided over by Judge Amira Chahrour, issued two indictments on Friday in corruption cases concerning the Road Traffic Department offices located in Dekouaneh...
BEIRUT — When Marc, a 34-year-old expat working in London, bought his plane ticket in February to spend this Christmas back home in Lebanon, he had no inkling of the massive war that would erupt in...
Southern Lebanon has witnessed continuous exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, since the war broke out in Gaza on Oct. 7, which raises concerns about a potentially destructive...
YEREVAN — The leader of Armenian separatists, who were ousted from the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan this year, on Friday said his previous decree ordering the dissolution of...
Head of Israel's National Security Council Tzachi Hanegbi stated in a column of the Arabic-language online newspaper Elaph what the state planned for the aftermath of the Israel-Hamas war: “A...
BEIRUT — Amid concerns that a new COVID-19 variant may have reached Lebanon during the country’s crucial Christmas tourism season, the Health Ministry assured Thursday that the new JN.1 strain has...
Lebanon is ready to implement a UN resolution that would help end Hezbollah's cross-border attacks on Israel if Israel also complies and withdraws from disputed territory, Lebanon's prime minister...
Turkish authorities have detained 304 people allegedly affiliated with Islamic State jihadists after launching a sweeping operation against the group, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Friday....
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to continue to supply the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid and urged a peaceful resolution to fighting between Israel and Hamas....
German federal prosecutors said Friday that they had charged two Syrians with "war crimes" committed in Damascus a decade ago as part of the Islamic State group. The two...
Lebanon’s aspirations for an economic recovery in 2023, the first in five years, have been shattered by the Israel-Hamas war, which extended into southern Lebanon. The southern border has witnessed...
The European Union (EU) "has decided to allocate 205.5 million euros" to Lebanon, in several areas including border management, the EU delegation announced in a press release issued on Thursday....
The European Commission on Friday said it had adopted a 118 million euros ($130 million) aid package to support the Palestinian Authority. The commission said the aid would help...
More than 10 weeks after the bloody Hamas attack on Israel, accounts of sexual violence are on the rise. But the scarcity of survivor testimonies and the lack of forensic...
This move represents another stride by BDL toward harmonizing exchange rates on the Lebanese market throughout the four-year crisis. With the adjustment, the Sayrafa rate aligns, at least...
What if Operation al-Aqsa Flood had been carried out not by Hamas from Gaza, but by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon? How far could the members of the party’s special operations forces unit, the...
In a falafel joint in south Lebanon, Hussein Murtada prepared flat-bread snacks for his few remaining customers as an Israeli surveillance drone buzzed above the border village of Kfar Kila....
The United Nations Security Council was poised on Friday to vote on a much-delayed resolution concerning the Israel-Hamas war after Washington signaled support following resistance to earlier draft...
Canada will take in extended families of Canadians in war-torn Gaza for up to three years, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Thursday. The move, which is due to...
An Israeli strike Thursday on the southern Gaza Strip killed the head of the Kerem Shalom border crossing and three others, Hamas government authorities said. Crossing...
21:19 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage from day 77 of the Hamas-Israel war. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis, right here at L'Orient...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 76 of the Israel-Hamas war here . Israeli shelling on Maroun al-Ras killed a...
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
