BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi signed a government circular on Aug. 16 announcing vehicle registration centers will start issuing driver’s licenses again through an altered...
BEIRUT — Comedian Qassem Jaber was questioned on Thursday by General Security (GS) officers from Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, after they searched his house in Kfar Tibneed, armed with a warrant,...
BEIRUT — Three days into Israel's war on Gaza, following Hamas' Oct. 7 al-Aqsa Flood operation, L’Orient Today spoke to photographer Omar al-Qatta from his home in central Gaza City. It was Oct....
Talks in Cairo on reaching a Gaza truce have made progress, the White House said Friday, as it urged Israel and Hamas to move forward. The White House confirmed that CIA...
Going to see an exhibition by Walid Raad is always like venturing into unchartered territory, like walking a fine line that separates the real from the imaginary and almost makes you walk on...
Hello all! As the situation around us remains tense, your Breakfast In Bed is here to offer you an escape by taking a nostalgic road trip to Sawfar, as well as some Arabic house songs to listen...
Eight people, including a child and seven Hezbollah fighters, were killed on Friday in Israeli strikes targeting several villages in southern Lebanon, where tensions between the party and Israel...
"Suicide bombings in the occupied interior [a term used to describe Israel and Israeli-occupied areas in Palestine] will return to the forefront as long as the occupier's massacres continue," the...
Zakaria Nsouli, former minister, former vice-rector of Saint-Joseph University (USJ), and a doctor of law, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 20. He served as a minister under Amin al-Hafez's government...
Does the U.S. influence end where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stubbornness begins? Over the past few days, Washington used many cards to convince Netanyahu to conclude a Gaza...
In Baalbeck in the Bekaa Valley or on the tourist streets of Batroun in northern Lebanon, a young man, A.H., has been parading around with a lion cub that appears to be in poor condition, posting...
In a dark Beirut alley, a young woman with a plunging bob crushed one her cigarette on the edge of an old-fashioned building. Dressed in evening wear and platform heels, she took a break while the...
A Russian court on Friday sentenced five people to prison terms of up to nine years for their involvement in an anti-Israel riot at an airport in the southern region of Dagestan....
Iran has arrested 14 suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group who were allegedly planning attacks in the country, authorities said on Friday. The 14 members of...
BEIRUT — A large fire broke out in the forests surrounding Maghdousheh town, south of Saida in southern Lebanon, "due to weather conditions and high temperatures," L'Orient Today's...
A Hamas official on Friday accused Israel's prime minister of refusing to agree to a final truce accord for Gaza, where the presence of Israeli troops on the Egyptian border remained a major...
German airline giant Lufthansa said Friday it was extending a suspension of flights to Beirut until Sept. 30 and to Tel Aviv and Tehran until Sept. 2 with regional tensions still high....
BEIRUT — Middle East Airlines announced Friday that its flights from Aug. 25 to 31 2024, will remain as scheduled, "except for some modified flights." "The delay is due to technical reasons...
BEIRUT — Five family members were killed in a car accident Thursday night above the Qadisha Cave, in Bsharri, northern Lebanon, L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the North reported Friday....
The Iranian axis has been reiterating for two weeks that it does not believe the talks in Doha and Cairo will lead to a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas (and, by extension, its allies). But...
On Aug. 12, and despite the spillovers in southern Lebanon from the Gaza war, the government approved a bill aimed at taxing individuals and companies that have repaid large loans during these five...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad announced that the In Ecker tanker departing from Algeria will arrive in Lebanon on Monday, Fayad said Friday, following a blackout by state power...
Iran's new foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has called for dialogue with the European Union to resolve bilateral issues, following a phone call with the bloc's top diplomat....
Fuel prices across the board saw a decrease once again while domestic gas cylinders remained the same, according to the new prices published by the Energy and Water Ministry. Here are the new...
21:01 Beirut Time Thank you for following today's live coverage of the Gaza war. Make sure to come back tomorrow for all the latest updates! 20:22 Beirut Time -...
The Israeli military has issued so many evacuation orders in 10 months of war that many Gaza civilians no longer heed them, despairing of finding space or safety in the shrinking "humanitarian"...
As their first birthday approaches, the triplets Gaza-native Hanane Bayouk gave birth to in Jerusalem before the war have seen their mother just once, and she fears she will "die without them."...
Israeli negotiators were taking part Thursday in talks on Gaza in Cairo, a government spokesperson said, as fighting raged on the ground despite U.S. pressure on Israel and Hamas to reach an...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Aug. 23, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• The progress on Gaza cease-fire talks after they...
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
