Against the backdrop of escalating regional tensions, particularly between the United States and Iran, the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon evacuated a number of staff members through Beirut’s airport as a...
The Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said Monday that “the aggressive war against Lebanon is an American war,” waged by Israel “to ensure American domination.” He denounced...
Iran's deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, warned of a wider escalation if his country was attacked, after U.S. President Donald Trump raised the threat of strikes. Trump has sent a...
The Beirut Bar Association filed an appeal Monday with the State Council seeking to suspend the decision made on Feb. 16 by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's government to increase taxes on fuel...
Researcher Salma Merchak Slim, mother of the prominent researcher and well-known Hezbollah opponent Lokman Slim, who was assassinated in 2021, has passed away, announced his widow, Monika Borgmann....
For publishing a message on her social media protesting the reception of Iranian Ambassador Mojtaba Amani in the village of Maaysra (with a Shiite majority), in Kesrouan, Josephine Zoughaib, a...
BEKAA — Following a meeting Monday at the Jdeidet Yabous border post, Lebanese and Syrian officials agreed to extend the reciprocity mechanism regulating goods and road transport between the two...
In an " official statement " posted on its X account, the Al-Habtoor Group announced on Monday that it was "initiating a legal proceeding against the Lebanese Republic,"...
BEIRUT — The State Department is pulling out non-essential government personnel and their eligible family members from the U.S. embassy in Beirut, a senior State Department official told Reuters...
Israeli settlers attempted to set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank village of Tell early Monday, the Palestinian Authority's ministry of religious affairs said. "The Ministry of...
The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Barack Obama’s failure to enforce his “red lines” in Syria in 2013, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in 2022 and Israel’s latest war in Gaza in 2023.The refrain...
Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Al-Khatib accused Germany of being "partners in the genocide in Gaza by Israel" at the Berlin Film Festival. Khatib's "Chronicles From the...
Mexico was on high alert Monday with schools closed and travelers stranded, as members of a powerful drug cartel went on a rampage across parts of the country after the army announced it had killed...
BEIRUT — Death penalty abolition advocates in Lebanon have reason to celebrate today, but the fight isn’t over yet. On Monday, the parliamentary human rights committee examined a bill submitted by...
BEIRUT — After a meeting held on Monday in Jdeidet Yabous, the border crossing in western rural Damascus opposite Lebanon's Al-Masnaa, between Lebanese and Syrian officials, participants agreed...
The parliamentary elections, theoretically scheduled for next May, featured prominently on Monday during President Joseph Aoun’s meetings with several MPs at the Baabda Presidential Palace. These...
Iraq's foreign minister said on Monday Turkey had agreed to take back Turkish citizens from among thousands of Islamic State detainees transferred to Iraq from Syria when camps and prisons...
EU lawmakers said on Monday they would put on hold a key trade deal with the United States after a Supreme Court ruling struck down President Donald Trump's tariffs. European Parliament...
Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday "no thanks" to U.S. President Donald Trump's idea of sending a hospital ship to Greenland, a territory that Trump...
For the broccoli: Wash the broccoli and trim the bottom part. Cut into large pieces. Bring salted water to a boil, blanch the broccoli for 2 minutes. Then plunge into ice water to stop the...
A serious debate is underway in Lebanon over the possibility of extending Parliament’s term and postponing the legislative elections, according to official and diplomatic sources who spoke to...
The world faces the most intense competition for power and resources since World War Two amid widespread rights violations in conflicts in Sudan, Gaza, Myanmar and Ukraine, the United Nations human...
Imagine a country with a weak, almost nonexistent air defense system and no major ally ready to assist. Now picture a regime which most of its own people despise, whose decades-long defense...
U.S. forces that led the anti-jihadist coalition in Syria will complete their withdrawal from the country within a month, three sources told AFP on Monday. "Within a month, they will have...
It all started last Monday when a note was found in the building lobby near the mailboxes.The note, a white sheet with the City of Paris logo, read: "Due to work on your street, water will be...
22:46 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 21:15 Beirut Time US...
In Zefta, a village in the Nabatieh district, a newly restored old traditional house has just opened its doors to artists, local audiences, and visitors from afar. On its walls, paintings; in its...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Feb. 23, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:9 a.m. Health Minister Rakan Nasser Eddin to...
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
