Clashes, the images of which circulated on social media, broke out Thursday in Afqa, a village in the Jbeil mountains, between displaced people fleeing the ongoing Israeli offensive and the...
BEIRUT — Before opening a support front with Hamas against Israel in October 2023, Hezbollah had in its arsenal, experts estimated, somewhere between 130,000 and 150,000 rockets and missiles....
We have decided to publish the full speech delivered by French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday morning to open the international conference on Lebanon held the same day in Paris. Here is the...
Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday more than 770 people have been killed in the north of the territory since Israel launched an assault aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping there....
The French and Italian Cultural Institutes are among the most active in Lebanon. They'd planned a packed program of cultural activities with which to launch the 2024/2025 academic year, but then...
This article was published on Oct. 24. On Oct. 29, Hezbollah officially announced in a statement that Sheikh Naim Qassem has been elected as the head of the party.So, it will not be Hashem...
The United Kingdom announced a pledge of £15 million (around $19.4 million) of humanitarian assistance in support of Lebanon. This package was revealed at the Paris Conference in support of Lebanon...
An Israeli strike on Khodr, a village near Baalbeck in the Bekaa, killed seven people and injured 14, according to information obtained from local sources by our correspondent Sarah Abdallah. The...
On the sidelines of the Paris Conference organized to support Lebanon, a coalition of 150 international NGOs, primarily focused on development and humanitarian aid, called Thursday for "a...
Tuesday’s session aimed at electing presidents and members of parliamentary committees failed to take place due to a lack of quorum. Only 49 out of 128 MPs responded to the call of Parliament...
BEIRUT — An airstrike targeted the Almat highlands in the Jbeil area, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the North reported Thursday. The strike targeted an uninhabited area and caused a...
The Paris Conference, organized by France to assist Lebanon, which has been facing unprecedented Israeli escalation for a month, aimed to raise around 500 million euros to support those displaced...
BEIRUT — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin said on Wednesday that Washington had not seen information supporting Israeli claims that Hezbollah had set up a bunker complex under the hospital,...
In this episode of our podcast "Testimonies from Beirut" we meet a Palestinian musician from Ramallah who moved to Lebanon in 2015 to pursue her artistic projects. Since the escalation of Israeli...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Doha on Thursday for talks with officials from Qatar, the country mediating the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as part of a new...
An Israeli drone strike targeted a car on the Beirut-Aley highway in Mount Lebanon on Thursday, reported our correspondent Mountasser Abdallah and the official National News Agency (NNA). A photo...
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed “deep concern” to his Israeli counterpart on Wednesday about Israeli army fire that has killed Lebanese armed forces personnel. On Thursday morning,...
Approaching Rabweh and Qornet Shehwan, in Northern Metn, the fire can be smelled way before it is seen. On Tuesday, a fire broke out near the dense cluster of homes in this area, which overlooks a...
"The military confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel is causing an unacceptable number of civilian casualties and an unbearable level of destruction throughout the country, making the situation...
In the latest casualty figures from the war, published one month to the day after the start of the Israeli escalation against Lebanon, the Health Ministry announced shortly before midnight on...
The Paris Conference’s main goal is to raise several hundred million dollars to address the humanitarian crisis related to the displacement of more than 1.3 million people. Have ‘Lebanon's friends’...
BEIRUT — Economic losses from Israeli bombardments of Lebanon may exceed $20 billion dollars, while the percentage of people living in extreme poverty may double to at least 80 percent in heavily...
03:02 Beirut Time This concludes our live coverage for today. Be sure to come back tomorrow for the latest updates of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Goodnight! 02:03 Beirut...
Since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel begun on Oct. 8 last year, Lebanon has suffered huge losses of civilian life, mass displacement, as well as damage and disruption to its infrastructure:...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Oct. 28, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 10:30 Media representatives and media activists...
The Lebanese army reported on Thursday that three of its soldiers, including an officer, were killed by Israeli fire in southern Lebanon, near the Israeli border. "The Israeli enemy targeted...
Syria is teetering on the brink of a "military, humanitarian and economic storm," a top U.N. official said Wednesday, warning of escalating violence within the country and spillover from fighting...
All of the attempts towards a ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza have failed so far. The U.S. tried to negotiate a pause to hostilities, albeit for a few days, until the U.S. presidential election is...
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
