BEIRUT — A failed Israeli operation near Baalbeck on Friday aimed to target a suspected Hamas official. According to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the area, an Israeli drone attempted...
World leaders and business executives departed from Davos after an eventful World Economic Forum annual meeting which was dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump. Here's what we learned:...
BEIRUT — The International Monetary Fund is urging Lebanon to include "clearer provisions on the hierarchy of responsibilities" in the draft law on restoring financial order and returning...
BEIRUT — French President Emmanuel Macron received Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Paris on Friday to discuss the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, as well as efforts to continue...
BEIRUT — Change MPs Mark Daou, Paula Yacoubian, Michel Douaihy, Firas Hamdan and Halime Kaakour submitted a series of questions to the government about judicial proceedings opened in France over an...
Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering Gaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more are allowed out than in, three sources briefed on the matter said ahead...
The United Nations rights chief condemned Friday the "now-routine abuse" of migrants by U.S. authorities, urging Washington to end practices "tearing apart families." Volker...
Tourism Minister Laura al-Khazen Lahoud Lahoud on Friday decided to cancel a measure enacted nearly four years ago by her predecessor Walid Nassar, that allowed tourism establishments to display...
This is not about liking a man or defending a personality. Put Trump aside for a moment and focus on the decision the United States now faces. The hard choice is this: whether America is willing...
BEIRUT — Several dozen people connected to the families of victims of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion began a sit-in at 10 a.m. on Friday to oppose the appointment of Gracia Azzi as head...
The World Bank said in a report published on Jan. 22 that Lebanon’s economy recorded positive growth in 2025, pointing to modest progress toward a potential long-term recovery. Titled “A fragile...
In an article published Thursday evening, the Israeli daily Haaretz estimated that the elimination of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sept. 27, 2024, cost Israel $34 million, a figure...
At the start of 2024, while in Qatar caring for her daughter after a riding accident, Samar Yazbek, happened upon Thumama, a vast hospital complex in Doha.Its uniqueness? The building exclusively...
Troops sent to Greenland by Copenhagen were ordered to be combat ready in case the United States attacked the autonomous Danish territory, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) reported on Friday....
As Lebanon approaches a parliamentary debate on an issue that is as explosive as the financial gap, President Joseph Aoun is attempting to walk a tightrope: while publicly defending the idea of an...
BEIRUT — Syria's Interior Ministry said on Friday it had taken over al-Aktan prison in the city of Raqqa in northeastern Syria, a facility that was formerly under the control of Kurdish-led...
Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar met with President Joseph Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda to report on his official visit to Bahrain earlier this week. "Ahmad Hajjar discussed the...
On the diplomatic front, a consensus that the era of militias in the Middle East is coming to an end is taking shape.The recent events in Syria offer a striking illustration, as the army succeeded...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old media coordinator at a local research center, translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing...
President Donald Trump said a U.S. "armada" was heading toward the Gulf and that Washington was watching Iran closely, even after downplaying the prospect of imminent military action and...
Largely absent from the headlines, the reform aimed at establishing a medium-term fiscal framework (MTFF) in Lebanon remains a critical task that Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government must take...
20:06 Beirut Time South Lebanon: Israeli strike on a car in the district of Bint Jbeil An Israeli drone strike hit a car traveling between the towns of Beit Yahoun and Braasheet, in...
Hundreds of people, including many journalists, crowded into the grounds of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza on Thursday to pay tribute to three slain colleagues. The three, including a...
In a hidden atelier in Kaslik, Lebanon, a small sign reads Edward Iskandarian, a jewelry shop founded by Arty Iskandarian’s father. Past the glass counters, Arty, 53 standing in the shadows, led...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
