BEIRUT — A source at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza City told Al Jazeera that an Israeli strike killed at least two Palestinians on Friday, east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Artillery...
BEIRUT — An 18-year-old Palestinian man was killed Friday by the Israeli army in Nablus, as Amnesty International reported in a new report that it had recorded 860 settler attacks in the occupied...
A global money-laundering watchdog said Friday that it removed South Africa, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Mozambique from its "grey list" of countries subjected to increased monitoring. The...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right provocateur, said Thursday, "If Saudi Arabia tells us normalization in exchange for a Palestinian state, friends, no thank...
Those expecting to find furniture pieces may be disappointed. We Design Beirut is nothing like a furniture or home decor fair; it aims above all to offer "an immersive experience in the spirit of...
BEIRUT — Two senior employees and a student have been arrested in connection with the fraud scandal engulfing the Faculty of Law at the Lebanese University (LU) since early October, L’Orient-Le...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun met with Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar to review ongoing preparations within the various units of the ministry ahead of the legislative elections scheduled for next...
SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli army carried out new deadly strikes in southern Lebanon on Friday, killing at least three people as they were traveling in their vehicles. The first strike occurred in...
The U.S. State Department on Friday appointed a career foreign service officer and the current ambassador to Yemen, Steven Fagin, as the civilian lead for a new center working to implement a peace...
By ratifying the agreement to delimit its maritime boundaries with Cyprus, Lebanon has reaffirmed its intention to keep pace with ongoing changes in the region.This ratification comes more than 20...
From across the sea, Japan has long observed the devastation of the Lebanese Civil War, which marks 50 years since its outbreak in 1975. More than 20 books on the conflict have been published in...
The editor-in-chief and the director of local online media outlet Megaphone, Samer Frangieh and Jean Kassir, were summoned on Wednesday to appear before the Court of Cassations’ public prosecutor...
The controversy over pollution in the Litani River took on an institutional turn this week, following an exchange of letters between the Litani River Authority and the representative of the United...
BEIRUT — In a Thursday interview with pro-Iranian channel al-Mayadeen, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam admitted that efforts to open diplomatic channels with Israel “have not been fruitful,” though he...
Two young members of the Jaafar family were shot in the legs on Friday while they were in the vicinity of the town of al-Qasr, in the Hermel region (northern Bekaa), along the Lebanese-Syrian...
The head of the Akkar sanitary department, Dr. Hassan al-Adra, on Friday denied reports circulating in certain local media outlets and on social media, claiming that hepatitis A cases had been...
The mere appointment of investigative judges in political assassination cases by Justice Minister Adel Nassar, who is close to the Kataeb party, was enough to bring back the long-standing tension...
The Bulgarian judiciary on Thursday rejected the request for release and subsequent appeal filed by Igor Grechuchkine, the presumed owner of the vessel Rhosus, which carried ammonium nitrate from...
Lebanese Foreign Minister Joe Rajji could only observe during a tour of southern Lebanon on Friday the "extent of the damage" from more than a year of war between Israel and Hezbollah in...
BEKAA — Two young men from the Jaafar family were shot in the legs on Friday while in the vicinity of the town of al-Qasr, in the Hermel region (northern Bekaa), along the Lebanese-Syrian border,...
Social Affairs Minister Hanine Sayed said Friday, during a tour in Sour, that “a comprehensive strategy for reconstruction and recovery is being prepared” for southern Lebanon, which has been...
Spain's High Court is investigating privately-owned steelmaker Sidenor for allegedly selling steel to an Israeli firm for the purpose of making weapons, it said on Friday, in one of the first...
Dominique Salloum’s piano recital was a singular event, devoted entirely to Chopin — fittingly so, since the chosen theme was “Chopin and Exile,” inaugurating the "Musical Thursdays" at...
A Cyprus court on Friday sentenced an Israeli businessman to five years in jail for illegally developing Greek Cypriot property in the Turkish-held north of the island, in one of the most...
Born and raised in Gaza, Adel Zaanoun heads the Agence France-Presse (AFP) bureau, for which he has covered the Palestinian enclave for more than 30 years.He is one of the subjects of the...
This week's exhibits dive into abstract, unspoken feelings that are hard to express in words, those fleeting emotions you feel in your spirit before they quickly fade away — oh, and Arab...
BEIRUT — Lebanese money transfer company Whish Money said it has obtained licenses to provide financial services in Canada, marking its first major authorization outside the Middle East and North...
Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun met with Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar to discuss preparations underway across the Ministry's various units to hold the parliamentary elections on schedule...
According to the Internal Security Forces (ISF), this is the chain of events that led to the leak of Syrian diplomats’ passports during a mid-September visit to Lebanon that was aimed at restoring...
Despite a series of reassuring statements from the Lebanese side, the verdict is clear: the meetings held by the Lebanese delegation during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Thursday evening on local MTV television that the objective of an amendment sought by certain political parties to the 2017 electoral law regarding expatriate...
Ray Bassil is no longer Lebanese. A native of Kesrouan district's Dlebta village, and a world champion in trapshooting and skeet who proudly represented Lebanon for 22 years and at four Olympic...
Clearing the surface of Gaza of unexploded ordnance will likely take between 20 to 30 years, according to an official with aid group Humanity & Inclusion, describing the enclave as a...
WASHINGTON — The United States is considering a proposal for humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza that would replace the controversial U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to a copy of...
21:50 Beirut Time Thank you for following our live coverage — we’ll be back tomorrow with more updates and developments. 21:17 Beirut Time The US military is...
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Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
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