BEIRUT — Najib Mikati’s caretaker government will convene Monday at 9:00 am to discuss a series of “pressing” matters that need to be settled, a statement from the Grand Serail said Friday....
BEIRUT — Security forces found Friday the SUV of Sheikh Ahmad Rifai, who has been missing since Monday, near Koura's Haikal Hospital, an ISF source told L'Orient Today. L'Orient-Le Jour 's...
BEIRUT — During a meeting with US congressmen, Lebanese Army commander General Joseph Aoun praised the "essential" role of Washington in supporting the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), reported...
White Helmets rescuers in rebel-held northwest Syria Friday called for international assistance to save people with quake-related wounds after a rescued boy died from crush injuries....
Israel's government approved the 2023-2024 budget Friday, against the backdrop of economic uncertainty linked to controversial plans advanced by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
DUBAI — Iran is likely to sell surface-to-air missiles to Syria, Iranian state television said on Friday, to help reinforce the air defenses of Tehran's close ally in the face of frequent Israeli...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese General Security (SG) announced on Friday that as of March 6, appointments for passports will no longer need to be made in advance. Passport applications will be made directly...
It was a last straw of sorts. While relations between Najib Mikati and Christian political and religious leaders are not at their best, the caretaker prime minister’s remarks on Tuesday night about...
Palestinians posed for photos Friday at a new landmark — the rubble of a house that was the site of the deadliest raid by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank for nearly two decades....
BEIRUT — Members of the Ukrainian community in Lebanon held a demonstration on Friday in downtown Beirut to mark one year since the Russian invasion of their home country. A video posted on the...
BEIRUT — The Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) decided to suspend its strike for a week starting on Monday, following a meeting on Friday with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, a source at...
Tunisian security forces have arrested Jawhar Ben Mbarek, the most prominent opposition figure to be rounded up in an escalating campaign of detentions targeting rivals of President Kais Saied....
The United Arab Emirates splashed out billions on arms from home-grown firms at a defense fair in Abu Dhabi this week, underlining a shift away from Western suppliers. By...
DUBAI — A global financial crime watchdog said on Friday Qatar's technical compliance with its standards was strong but the Gulf state needed to make improvements in its fight against money...
BEIRUT — Three students died and two others were injured late Thursday night on the Chekka-Batroun highway after a truck hit their car, the state-run National News Agency and L’Orient Today ’s...
Feb. 24, 2022 will forever be recalled as the day when Russia started its brutal, unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine. This was and remains a case of pure aggression and a clear-cut breach...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces thwarted a scam operation by a group of people who were allegedly intending to force a minor girl into sex work, the ISF said in a statement Friday. The...
The letter that caretaker Prime minister Najib Mikati sent to the caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi Tuesday, instructing him to “take the appropriate measures” in relation to the tug of...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Friday announced a decrease in fuel prices and an increase in gas cylinder tariffs. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline:...
BEIRUT — Three people — a woman, her child and a man — were found dead at a home in Daraya, in the Chouf region Friday morning, the state-run National News Agency and L'Orient Today's...
ISTANBUL — Turkey has imposed regulations for earthquake rebuilding work in its region hit by this month's devastating tremors, according to a presidential decree published in the country's...
The Vatican and Oman have established diplomatic relations, a joint statement said Thursday, three months after a visit by Pope Francis to the Gulf. There are...
A helicopter carrying Iran's sports minister crashed Thursday in the country's south, killing one of his aides and injuring him as well as 15 other people, state media reported....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . London's High Court of Justice issued the first verdict recognizing liability for the deadly Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port blast,...
The European Union said Thursday it is temporarily easing sanctions on Syria to speed up aid deliveries to the country two weeks after a devastating earthquake. Aid...
Tunisian President Kais Saied called Thursday for his government to take care of "legal" migrants from sub-Saharan Africa while doubling down on controversial remarks that so-called illegal...
The Canadian government announced on Thursday a relaxation of immigration rules for Iranians in Canada, amid "gross and systematic human rights violations" in Iran. "These...
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
