BEIRUT — In a letter sent on the occasion of Lebanon's Independence Day on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump told President Joseph Aoun that he is interested in strengthening ties with...
BEIRUT — Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdellaty arrived at Beirut international airport on Tuesday evening, according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA). He is set to meet Wednesday with...
BEIRUT — The 17-year-old Lebanese who is accused of sexually harassing six-year-old students from Saint-Coeurs Ain Najm school during a field trip to the VeréBleu amusement park in Dayshounieh, in...
BEIRUT — Five people were charged with manslaughter on Tuesday in the case of the killing of 20-year-old Khalil Khalil last February in the Kesrouan district village of Faraya, after a dispute on...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Tuesday the seizure of a vehicle that arrived from Europe containing a significant quantity of cocaine and ecstasy. The interception was...
Hala and Ibrahim met in a shelter, collecting empty sniper shells as children. They learned from an early age how to tell the difference between shells that were fired and those that landed....
GAZA/CAIRO — Heavy rain caused flooding in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, swamping the tents of thousands of homeless Palestinians facing the prospect of harsh winter storms without sturdy shelter....
LATAKIA — Syrian security forces used gunfire on Tuesday to break up two rival groups of demonstrators in the coastal town of Latakia, heartland of the country's Alawite minority, witnesses and...
BETHLEHEM — The popemobile used by the late Pope Francis on his 2014 visit to Bethlehem re-emerged on Tuesday as a mobile children's clinic to be deployed in Gaza. The vehicle is still...
Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday across Syria's Alawite-majority coast in protest against recent attacks targeting the minority community, AFP correspondents reported. The...
BEIRUT — The first hearing in the trial of Lebanese singer Fadl Shaker was held on Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. before the military court presided over by General Wassim Fayyad. However, it only lasted...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun granted FIFA President Gianni Infantino Lebanese citizenship during a meeting at Baabda Presidential Palace on Tuesday, according to the Lebanese Football Association...
It all began with a gruesome murder and a sectarian-sounding message written with blood at the crime scene. “Dogs of Bani Umayyad, ya Hussein,” read the Arabic inscription on the bathroom wall of...
The Sursock Museum is expanding its educational mission with the launch of "Soksok parmi les couleurs, un voyage dans l'art libanais" (Soksok Among the Colors, a Journey through...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told local newspaper al-Joumhouria that the Israeli strike on Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday “indicates the likelihood of an...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, accompanied by Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny, on Tuesday outlined a development plan for the Port of Beirut aimed at “putting it back on the...
Pope Leo XIV, expected in Lebanon from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, will be the fourth pope to set foot in Lebanon, in a trip that comes 13 years since the last: Pope Benedict XVI’s September 2012 visit.To...
The United Nations called Tuesday for swift and impartial investigations into Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including a deadly attack on Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh last week, which killed...
The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that at least 127 civilians had been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes since a cease-fire nearly a year ago, and called for an investigation and for...
Since Sunday’s strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, an Israeli escalation against Hezbollah appears increasingly inevitable. Yet international contacts are ongoing in an effort to reach a formula...
The two-year Gaza war and economic restrictions have triggered an unprecedented collapse in the Palestinian economy, wiping out decades of growth, a United Nations report said on Tuesday....
When Pope John Paul II declared in 1989 that "Lebanon is more than a country, it is a message," it was likely in reference to the country being mentioned nearly 70 times in the Old and...
BEIRUT — Change MP Najat Aoun Saliba drew a parallel in an interview with Sawt Kel Loubnan between “the assassination of Haytham Ali Tabataba’i and that of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukur, as well...
21:16 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage of events in the region for today. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more live updates as the news...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday began the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists, a move that...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:The return of the third-last remaining body of a hostage...
Jibril al-Safadi needs a prosthetic to move forward and try to forget the nightmare he has barely survived. During his incarceration in Israeli prisons, the 46-year-old Gazan endured torture,...
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
