The Cybercrime Bureau in Lebanon has summoned Christiane Gemayel, editor of the Lebanese news site Lebtalk, to a hearing on Monday, according to information published Thursday by the site and...
Iraqi militias backed by Iran have announced an end to their informal truce with the United States, a move likely to heighten regional tensions, according to the Emirati daily, The National. The...
Residents of the Miami luxury apartment tower where Netanyahu's son lives were locked down Tuesday due to a "suspicious object," according to the Jerusalem Post, citing Israeli N12. Netanyahu's...
It won't be easy. Protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago sent a powerful message to Kamala Harris last Monday, demanding an end to the transfer of American arms to Israel....
The Lebanese Health Ministry released its latest figures on Thursday regarding the ongoing clashes between Hezbollah and Israel along the southern Lebanese border and northern Israel, which began...
In July 2022, the power blackout was due to a delay in loading fuel. In July 2024, it was because of a legislative and legal problem. In August 2024, it was due to malfunctions in the payment...
BEIRUT — A waste dump between Kfar Hazir and Chekka in northern Lebanon was burning and releasing toxic fumes, Lebanese Forces MP Ghayath Yazbeck for Batroun had announced on X on Thursday....
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held a series of meetings at the Grand Serail on Thursday, emphasizing that “all current diplomatic efforts and meetings are focused on securing...
Comments by Marwan Hamadeh, an MP with the Progressive Socialist Party, caused panic on Wednesday. In an interview on the broadcaster MTV, the former minister spoke of a general war that would...
At the last government meeting on Aug. 14, the caretaker government gave its "agreement in principle" to a plan submitted to it by the army command: The recruitment of nearly 1,500 new soldiers, as...
The health ministry in Gaza said Thursday that at least 40,265 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory in more than 10 months of war with Israel. The...
Charif Megarbane is a multi-faceted artist, playing various instruments and inspired by different musical genres and cultures. The uncommonly versatile artist continues his collaboration with the...
Amid rising geopolitical tensions and a highly charged electoral environment, new revelations point to Iran as a key player in efforts to disrupt the upcoming U.S. presidential election. While...
The Palestinian health ministry in the occupied West Bank said three people were killed in Israeli strikes on a refugee camp Thursday, with the army saying it hit armed militants....
I saw the blue moon on Aug. 19. It was really blue, eager to sweep away the twilight, already high when the sun hadn't fully slipped into the sea yet. The mountain peaks, stripped bare by the light...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced on Thursday, in a statement, the arrest of a Lebanese man in Saida, accused of fatally shooting his 25-year-old son in the Bekaa Valley....
The Algerian oil tanker In Ecker set sail for Lebanon on Thursday with a first cargo of 30,000 tons of fuel intended to restart the country's power plants and prevent it from remaining plunged into...
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday joined calls for the reopening of Qleyaat airport in Akkar, northern Lebanon. A resumption of operations at Rene Moawad Airport (named after the...
China on Thursday urged its citizens in Lebanon to leave "as soon as possible," according to an embassy statement, the day after an Israeli strike in the country killed a senior Palestinian...
Saida has once again come under Israeli fire. On Aug. 21, an Israeli airstrike targeted the vehicle of Khalil Maqdah in Lebanon’s third largest city. The latter was a high-ranking official of the...
The Gaza Strip's first recorded polio case in 25 years has health workers and aid agencies grappling with the steep obstacles to conducting mass vaccination in the war-torn Palestinian territory....
It's the kind of institution whose name invokes a load of legends, faces, moments, tastes and smells, visual details, memories and whispered secrets, some more mythical than others. All those who...
It was 1973 in Lillehammer. In this Norwegian ski resort, 180 kilometers north of Oslo, Ahmad Bouchikhi, a young Moroccan waiter, was returning home with his pregnant wife after an evening at the...
It was September 1972, in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir stands resolutely behind her podium. Facing the members of the Knesset, she must remain strong. After all, she is the...
It's May 2007 and Israel is celebrating its 59th anniversary. In occupied East Jerusalem, a woman in her 90s slowly makes her way to the stage — a torch in hand. The crowd applauds Shulamit...
21:18 Beirut Time Thank you for joining us for today's live coverage of the Gaza war and its regional impacts. Make sure to come back tomorrow for all the latest updates....
President Joe Biden on Wednesday pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a Gaza cease-fire deal with Hamas as talks on a truce faltered. The U.S. and...
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and accompanying destroyers have arrived in the Middle East, the U.S. military said Wednesday, after the country's defense secretary ordered the strike...
The outgoing head of Israeli military intelligence, Major General Aharon Haliva, asked Wednesday for "forgiveness" from Israelis for failing to protect them from Hamas's Oct. 7 attack....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• The outcome of a call between U.S. President...
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
