BEIRUT — The Public Prosecutor at the Beirut Court of Appeal Ziad Abi Haidar filed a request on Wednesday to be withdrawn from the case concerning the forensic audit report by Alvarez & Marsal...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army prevented 700 Syrian citizens from informally entering Lebanon across the eastern border this past week, it announced Wednesday evening, amid broader heightened security...
BEIRUT — A military helicopter crashed during a training flight Wednesday evening in Hammana, Mount Lebanon, killing two army personnel and wounding another, a spokesperson for the Lebanese Army...
Russian state-run news agencies on Wednesday said that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group that led a mutiny against Russia's army in June, was on the list of passengers of a plane that...
BEIRUT — Overcrowded prisons, undernourished inmates, inadequate healthcare access to healthcare, rising deaths in custody. The situation in Lebanese prisons has worsened since the onset of the...
The head of a Dubai-based conglomerate on Wednesday said Afghanistan's Taliban authorities had stopped around 100 women from traveling to the United Arab Emirates where he was to sponsor their...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Massam Mawlawi promised a "completed" investigation into the death earlier this month of former Lebanese Forces official Elias Hasrouni, amid accusations by LF...
While more than four years have passed since the crisis broke out, Lebanon has yet to implement the necessary reforms, starting with legal capital controls. Depositors remain at the mercy of the...
BEIRUT — Toxic pesticides used by Lebanese farmers but banned in many other countries have entered Lebanon's market via organized crime networks, MP Wael Bou Faour said in a press conference...
Marine traffic in Egypt's Suez Canal is back to normal, according to a statement by the Suez Canal authority on Wednesday. The Suez Canal chief had said earlier that the north...
Sudanese paramilitaries fought the regular army in Khartoum on Thursday as they targeted a key military base in the south of the capital for the fourth consecutive day, witnesses said....
Cypriot police on Wednesday arrested five Syrians in an operation seeking to crack down on illegal trafficking networks on the island, authorities said. European Union...
Fierce storms closed schools Wednesday in Saudi Arabia's Mecca region, home to Islam's holiest site, the Grand Mosque, which was lashed by heavy rains and wind overnight, witnesses said. ...
BEIRUT — Katherine Pangonis is swimming below the surface of the Mediterranean, with goggles and a snorkel. She is scouring the sea floor for vestiges of “the sunken city,” the second port of Sour...
The preliminary report on the forensic audit of Banque du Liban (BDL) can be considered a "public condemnation" of BDL's former governor Riad Salameh, Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran...
Shelling hit the hometown of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the coastal province of Latakia on Wednesday, wounding a civilian, state media said, the second such attack in two months....
A man shot his wife at a gas station in Tripoli on Tuesday night, in the presence of their daughter, before fleeing with the child, security sources confirmed to L'Orient Today 's correspondent in...
BEIRUT — The venture capital arm of the Saudi Research and Media Group, SRMG Ventures, this week announced a $5 million strategic investment in Anghami, the Lebanese-founded music streaming...
Turkey on Wednesday shut the busy Dardanelle Strait for a second day to help firefighters fill up with water and douse flames near the tourist town of Canakkale. Emergency...
BEIRUT — A hand grenade was thrown Tuesday night near an UNWRA schoolyard in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Saida, sources inside the camp told L'Orient-Le Jour , adding that no...
BEIRUT — A forest fire that broke out Tuesday in the locality of Khreibeh, Akkar, was extinguished Wednesday evening with assistance from Civil Defense and local volunteers, the Lebanese Army...
ISTANBUL — Firefighters battled a forest fire in the northwestern Turkish province of Canakkale on Wednesday as it spread for a second day because of high temperatures and strong wind....
Straddling the frontier between Lebanon and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, the picturesque village of Ghajar has become a lightning rod for tensions between the hostile forces on either side....
Lebanon is expected to know whether offshore Block 9 contains commercially viable amounts of hydrocarbons within “67 days” from the scheduled start of exploratory drilling tomorrow, caretaker...
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
