BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday said that the day President Michel Aoun's term ends on Oct. 31 is "a day for sadness and not for celebration considering the situation we are...
AMMIQ, Lebanon — Early on a gray, overcast Saturday morning, dozens of people gathered at the Ammiq wetland in the Bekaa Valley, one of Lebanon’s richest natural ecosystems. They had come to catch...
Zgharta MP Michel Moawad obtained 36 votes in the first session held to elect a new president and 42 in the second one that was held on Thursday. While Hezbollah perceives him as a “defiant...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese visit to Syria to discuss the disputed maritime border, which was scheduled for Wednesday over the weekend, was canceled by Syria on Monday afternoon, a source from the...
Israel and Lebanon will sign on Thursday the maritime border agreement, negotiated under the auspices of the United States and paving the way for the exploitation of gas fields in the eastern...
DAMASCUS — Israeli missiles hit targets near the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday in a rare daytime attack, a Syrian military source said. Israel has conducted strikes for years against what it...
BEIRUT — An unarmed Blom Bank depositor in Saida, South Lebanon, who threatened to set himself alight, on Monday successfully retrieved more of his blocked savings from the bank than he was...
BEIRUT — The first Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return home under a new repatriation scheme will leave Wednesday, but few in worn-down camps in the central Bekaa Valley said they would sign up....
Tehran on Monday rejected US allegations that Iranian military personnel are on the ground in Crimea to help Moscow carry out drone attacks in Ukraine. "We strongly reject this news," Iran's...
BEIRUT — Just off Beirut’s trendy Zaitunay Bay waterfront, an unusual 40-meter boat has attracted the curiosity of visitors over the past few days. The vessel is called the Plastic Odyssey, and...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Health Ministry announced in a statement Monday that it will fully cover all cholera patients and suspected cases' expenses at public hospitals, including emergency...
TEHRAN — A top Iranian general sanctioned by the European Union for allegedly supplying Russia with drones has mocked the bloc by telling them to “buy coal” for winter with his assets, media...
Lebanese MPs failed Monday, at the end of a fourth dedicated parliamentary session, to elect a successor to President Michel Aoun, whose term expires on Oct. 31. This new failure came after...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army announced Monday that it had foiled a drug and ammunition smuggling operation from Lebanon, near the town of Hasbani, into its territory on Sunday, the Arabic-speaking...
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri convened Monday at 11 a.m. a fourth parliamentary session devoted to the election of a successor to President Michel Aoun, whose term expires on Oct. 31. The...
BEIRUT — Weakened by three years of crisis, Lebanon finds itself, once again, ill-prepared for winter storms. Intense rainfall severely flooded large swathes of Lebanon's low-altitude coastal areas...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced a sharp decrease in fuel prices Monday morning, one day after a sudden gain in value of the Lebanese lira on the parallel market. Here are the new...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Parliament is scheduled to convene today for the first in a series of “consecutive sessions” to elect a president, with just a...
DOHA — Security forces in Qatar arbitrarily arrested and abused LGBT Qataris as recently as last month, Human Rights Watch said Monday, in the run-up to hosting soccer's World Cup which has put a...
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?
