Raja Salameh to stand before European magistrates Tuesday
BEIRUT — A delegation of European investigators arrived in Lebanon Monday afternoon for the purpose of interrogating Raja Salameh. The trial will start Tuesday and run for two days. Raja...
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Mouawad proposes forming parliamentary committee to follow Arabs of Khaldeh file
BEIRUT — Zgharta MP and presidential candidate Michel Mouawad on Monday proposed forming a parliamentary committee to follow up on the military court ruling made last week which doled out the death...
24 April 2023
Nazem Ahmad, the art collector suspected of financing Hezbollah
“Art Has No Rules” is the caption Nazem Ahmad uses in lieu of a profile picture for his Instagram account, where he has over 172,000 followers and exhibits parts of his vast art collection. The...
Caroline HAYEK, 24 April 2023
Municipality of Feitroun issues regulations for Syrian refugees
BEIRUT — The municipality of Feitroun in Mount Lebanon issued restrictions that apply to Syrian refugees on Monday. Restrictions include curfews, a ban on motorcycles after 7 p.m., limits on social...
24 April 2023
Driver shot dead after Jerusalem car ramming wounds five
A Palestinian man drove his car into a crowd on a Jerusalem street on Monday, injuring five people before being shot dead by a passerby, Israeli police said. Hours earlier, Israeli troops killed a...
24 April 2023
U.S. targets Iranian officials for rights violations, censorship
The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday imposed sanctions on four senior Iranian law enforcement and military officials involved in crushing protests that erupted last year after an Iranian woman...
24 April 2023
Latest status on foreign states' Sudan evacuation efforts
Sudan's conflict between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has prompted foreign countries to race to extract their diplomats and citizens. Several countries...
24 April 2023
Thoughts on gulfs and decadence
There are endless questions in Lebanon about why politicians of immeasurable mediocrity and corruption are able to gain and maintain power in a country with an extraordinarily educated, skilled and...
Ziad MAJED, 24 April 2023
Iraq's northern oil exports show few signs of restarting after stoppage
Iraq's northern oil exports show few concrete indications of an imminent restart after a month of standstill, as aspects of an agreement between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)...
24 April 2023
EU sanctions more individuals, telecom firm over rights violations in Iran
The European Union imposed sanctions on Monday on eight Iranians and a mobile telecommunications provider in its latest effort to target individuals and organizations it holds responsible for human...
24 April 2023
EU curbs Syria's Assad cousins, others over suspected drug trade
The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on cousins of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over the trafficking of the stimulant drug captagon, a key source of income for the regime. ...
24 April 2023
‘They built a house and couldn’t sleep in it’
In light of the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide commemoration, we invite you to revisit this article originally published on April 24, 2023. ANJAR, Lebanon — It’s Sunday evening and...
Madeline EDWARDS, 23 April 2026
Geagea accuses France of supporting Frangieh to serve 'common interests' with Hezbollah
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea accused France of supporting Hezbollah's presidential candidate Sleiman Frangieh to serve its "common interests" with the Shiite party. "France is...
24 April 2023
Lebanon evacuates over 50 people from Sudan on Saudi ship
BEIRUT — Fifty-four people are being evacuated from Sudan aboard a Royal Saudi Navy ship which departed the city of Port Sudan and is now on its way to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a spokesperson at...
Ghadir Hamadi, 24 April 2023
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in occupied West Bank raid
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man Monday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, during what the army described as a "counterterrorism" operation....
24 April 2023
UK sanctions Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
The UK government on Monday slapped sanctions on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as part of new restrictions on Tehran for alleged human rights violations....
24 April 2023
Iraqi man freed by the army after being kidnapped in Jounieh
BEIRUT — An Iraqi man kidnapped Thursday in Jounieh (Kesrouan) was released Sunday in Baalbeck, the Lebanese Army announced. The suspected kidnapper and his accomplices posed as security...
24 April 2023
Israel bombs targets in Syria near Golan Heights: monitor
Israel's army early Monday shelled a position belonging to a pro-Iran group in southern Syria near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a war monitor said, the second such bombardment in days....
24 April 2023
Moscow to host Turkey, Syria, Russia, Iran meeting on Tuesday
ISTANBUL — Turkey's defense minister said he planned to meet his Syrian, Russian and Iranian counterparts in Moscow on Tuesday, state-owned Anadolu news agency said, amid efforts to rebuild...
24 April 2023
Key tourism sector slow to recover after huge earthquake
ISTANBUL/LONDON — After months of hosting displaced survivors of Turkey's massive earthquake in his Antalya hotels, Hakan Saatcioglu hopes his rooms will soon be filled with tourists again...
Ceyda Caglayan and Joanna Plucinska, 24 April 2023
Salameh charges, Sudan evacuation, Syrian deportations: Everything you need to know to start your Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. French prosecutors told Banque du Liban (BDL) governor Riad Salameh that they plan to charge him with fraud and money...
24 April 2023
Jordan says Israel arrested MP suspected of arms smuggling
Israel has arrested a Jordanian member of parliament suspected of trying to smuggle weapons and gold into the occupied West Bank, Jordan's Foreign Ministry said Sunday....
