BEIRUT — Lebanon will lodge a complaint against Israel at the UN Security Council accusing it of disrupting navigation systems and civil aviation around Beirut airport, the foreign ministry said on...
MOSCOW — Gunmen opened fire at a rock concert in a Moscow suburb Friday leaving dead and wounded before a major fire spread through the theatre, Moscow's mayor and Russian news agencies reported....
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati responded to reports published by al-Akhbar on Wednesday claiming that his government would provide over $46 million in compensation to those...
NICOSIA — EU commissioner Margaritis Schinas said on Friday that the European Union could strike a deal with Lebanon to stem arrivals of migrants, as Cyprus complained it was being inundated by...
BEIRUT — A dead cetacean, a type of dolphin, was found on Friday on a beach in Akkar, in North Lebanon, a rather rare phenomenon on the Lebanese coast, according to information from our...
BEIRUT — "Wow, she's strong!" exclaimed lawyer Maya Geara. "She's using the judges' own weapons against them!" Geara emerges from the Palace of Justice with a bright smile. She makes no attempt...
Saudi Arabia is set to become the face of women’s rights at the United Nations. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the Gulf monarchy is set to win the chairmanship of the Commission on the Status of...
BEIRUT — The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israel’s claim to 8,000 dunams (1,977 acres, 800 hectares) of land in the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, is a “crime” that...
Spain has agreed with the leaders of Ireland, Malta and Slovenia to take the first steps towards recognizing a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday following a meeting...
Russia and China on Friday vetoed a US-backed draft resolution at the Security Council on a cease-fire in Gaza, with Moscow accusing Washington of a "hypocritical spectacle" that does not pressure...
“You’re not one of us... You’re Syrian.” I was merely 11 years old when my maternal uncle, his expression grave and his voice hushed, unveiled my unexpected hidden identity to me. He explained...
“What is taking place today is similar to what preceded the Maronite Archbishops [Council’s] Declaration [which in September 2000 called for the withdrawal of Syrian troops, a few months after the...
Israel reported Friday the seizure of 800 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank, which activists called the largest action of its kind in decades. Israel's...
A UN official on Friday appealed for about $4 billion in humanitarian assistance for Syria, warning funding was almost non-existent and that lack of support would push more Syrians to emigrate....
Summoned for a hearing before the Higher Disciplinary Council, Ghada Aoun, Attorney General at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, lodged an appeal on Friday against the President of the Higher...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Israel Friday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ahead of a UN Security Council vote on a US draft resolution noting the need for an...
Finland will resume funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, Foreign Trade and Development Minister Ville Tavio announced on Friday. Finland suspended...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Tel Aviv Friday ahead of Gaza war talks, expected to be tense, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an AFP journalist....
Three people, including two men younger than 18, were arrested on Friday for allegedly spying for Israel and being involved in the assassination of Hamas member Hadi Mostafa in Sour earlier this...
Britain and Australia on Friday declared the need for an "immediate cessation of fighting" in Gaza, as diplomatic pressure built on Israel to rethink a planned ground assault on the southern city...
The United States, which has repeatedly blocked calls for a truce in Gaza, will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council Friday on the need for "an immediate cease-fire,"...
Normally festive Ramadan nights have become rife with danger in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, said hospital director Wisam Bakr, as surging violence casts a long shadow over the Muslim fasting...
US lawmakers moved Thursday toward prohibiting any further funding for the UN's embattled agency for Palestinians, which Israel has sought to link to Hamas. President Joe Biden's...
The EU's 27 leaders called on Thursday for an "immediate humanitarian pause" in Gaza and urged Israel not to launch a major ground offensive in the southernmost city of Rafah....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday the path towards normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, delayed by the war in Gaza, was seeing "very good progress." Blinken...
22:06 Beirut Time We're closing today's live coverage of the Gaza war and its repercussions in Lebanon and the region. Thanks for joining us — we'll be back tomorrow with more news...
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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
