BEIRUT – For the first time since the mid 2000s, Lebanese Parliament was on schedule with the process of discussing a proposed budget draft. Around 11 a.m. Wednesday, Parliament launched the...
Yemen's Houthi rebels fired three missiles at two merchant ships in the Red Sea on Wednesday in their latest attack in the commercially vital waterway, the White House said....
AMSTERDAM — Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule on Friday whether or not they will grant emergency measures against Israel following accusations by South Africa that the...
BEIRUT — Israel is not allowing ambulances and rescue workers to enter the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) shelter that it struck on Wednesday afternoon in Khan Younis, southern...
ROME — Italy will provide hospital treatment for 100 Palestinian children from Gaza after transporting them by plane and ship in an operation to be launched in the next few days, Defense...
DOHA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas broadly agree in principle that an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners could take place during a month-long cease-fire, but the...
DOHA — Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) deliveries may be delayed by attacks in the Red Sea, QatarEnergy warned on Wednesday, stressing that production had not been impacted....
On May 25, 2000, Israel withdrew from south Lebanon after more than 22 years of occupation. It was then that Lebanon discovered a piece of forgotten territory: The Shebaa Farms. Although the...
Yemen's Houthi authorities have ordered US and British staff of the United Nations and Sanaa-based humanitarian organizations to leave the country within a month, a document and a Houthi...
On Monday, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Beirut Walid Bukhari expressed satisfaction following his meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mojtaba Amani. In Riyadh’s perspective, the Iranians have...
The Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip is open 24/7 but the procedures by Israel to allow the entry of aid are obstructing the process, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi flew to Turkey on Wednesday for twice-delayed talks aimed at ironing out past differences between the two neighbors and trying to halt the spread of the Israel-Hamas...
For over three months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “annihilate Hamas.” Last Thursday, Netanyahu pledged once again to continue fighting in the Palestinian enclave until...
Iran's former president Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that after 24 years of membership, he has been barred from seeking re-election to the body that appoints the country's supreme leader....
At least 25,700 Palestinians have been killed and 63,740 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. Some 210...
Heavy Israeli bombardment of Gaza overnight killed at least 125 people, the health ministry in the territory said Wednesday, against the backdrop of talks in Cairo aimed at reaching a truce....
"I have no problem with the election of Sleiman Frangieh or anyone else" to the presidency of Lebanon, said Walid Joumblatt, former leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), in remarks...
South Africa expects the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to rule this Friday on whether it will grant emergency measures to stop the war in Gaza, South African news website News24 reported...
Israeli troops on Wednesday blew up the home of a Palestinian accused of assisting in the killing of four Israelis near a settlement in the occupied West Bank in June, witnesses said....
Israel kept up its heavy assault on the "encircled" Gazan city of Khan Younis following an outpouring of grief over the army's deadliest single day since ground operations in the territory began....
American forces destroyed two Houthi anti-ship missiles in Yemen that posed an imminent threat to ships in the area, the US military said Tuesday. The United States and...
US forces bombed sites used by Iran-backed militants in Iraq early Wednesday after a spate of attacks targeting US personnel, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said, killing two people, according to...
Joe Biden attacked Donald Trump over the key election issue of abortion rights Tuesday, but pro-Palestinian hecklers carried out their most disruptive protest yet against the US president as he...
Israel's rejection of the idea of a two-state solution with the Palestinians is unacceptable and could prolong the war in Gaza, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday....
The United States destroyed a Houthi anti-ship cruise missile that was ready to launch soon after the second round of joint American-British strikes against the Yemeni rebels, the Pentagon said...
21:45 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage from day 110 of the Hamas-Israel war. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis, right here at L'Orient...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 109 of the Israel-Hamas war here . Israeli attacks continued to target southern...
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