What L'Orient-Le Jour has learnedBetween maneuvers and serious negotiations, the world is waiting to see what efforts and mediations aimed at ending the Israeli-U.S. war against Iran will...
In his opening remarks at a press briefing on the situation in the Middle East, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres painted an alarming picture, highlighting the risk of the...
Israeli officials fear that U.S. President Donald Trump may announce a cease-fire with Iran this week, Israeli media Channel 12 and The New York Times (NYT) reported Wednesday. The Israeli...
Fighting raged again on Wednesday between Israel and Hezbollah in south Lebanon, especially near the Christian village of Dibil, as the war entered its third and a half week, definitively burying...
Since debris from an intercepted Iranian missile fell Tuesday over Kesrouan, numerous theories have circulated in the press and on social media. The incident — which caused no casualties — may seem...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, during a meeting with ministry director generals and local officials from northern Israel, that Israel is expanding its "buffer zone" in...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said Wednesday in a statement that any negotiation "under fire" with Israel amounts to a "capitulation," and again condemned the Lebanese...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah must not condemn the country to the same fate as Gaza. "The Gaza model must not be...
Iranian state television, citing an unnamed official, reported on Wednesday that Iran had rejected the proposal put forth by U.S. President Donald Trump administration to end nearly a month of...
The Health Ministry said Wednesday that 42 rescue workers have been killed by the Israeli army since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon on March 2, calling it "a...
SOUTH LEBANON — Several Israeli vehicles and tanks of are advancing toward the Christian village of Dibil (Bint Jbeil), about 5 km from the border with Israel, reports our correspondent in South...
BEIRUT — On the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation and the 15th anniversary of his accession as head of the Maronite Church, Pope Leo XIV sent his congratulations to Patriarch Bechara Rai....
Lebanon stands on a razor's edge. Internally, unprecedented tensions and political division teeter on the line of explosion.Polarization has peaked. The slightest incident could trigger civil...
Organic, creative, and committed — that’s the winning formula at Mouné, which is far from your typical Lebanese restaurant. In just a few years, Serge and Najla have turned their kitchen into a...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun told Annahar on Wednesday that there “will be no civil war or return to its past episodes” in Lebanon, amid growing fears over Hezbollah’s disarmament and mass...
Iran fired cruise missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the military said in a statement carried by state television, warning of further launches when the strike group's ships...
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Britain and France will chair talks of about 30 countries this week aiming to set up a coalition mission to reopen the key Strait of Hormuz, effectively closed by Iran since the start of the Middle...
The confusion over whether talks between Iran and the United States are actually underway has fooled no one. While intermediaries such as Turkey, Pakistan, and Egypt are indeed in communication...
Lebanon's consumer price index, which measures prices in Lebanese liras, rose 1.9 percent month-on-month and 12.27 percent year-on-year in February — just before the war launched by Israel and...
Sometimes militant, sometimes pragmatic, an advocate of the Iranian regime’s harshest policies yet showing openness to nuclear negotiations with the American adversary, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has...
The United Nations' top rights official on Wednesday urged states to end the Iran conflict, describing the situation in the Middle East as extremely dangerous and unpredictable. "This...
Russia has not received any information from Iran about a reported U.S. 15-point plan and so Moscow cannot assess the reliability of the media reports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on...
Gulf Arab states told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday they face an existential threat from Iran as they condemned Iranian attacks on their infrastructure, which the U.N. rights chief...
She rarely speaks out, but this is not the first time she has sparked controversy. Three weeks after hostilities began between Hezbollah and Israel, Youmna Gemayel, daughter of Bashir Gemayel — the...
SOUTH LEBANON — Hezbollah on Wednesday fired more than 100 rockets at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon and, for the first time since the fighting resumed in early March, claimed attacks on an...
BEIRUT — Military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah reached a new level overnight into Wednesday morning in southern Lebanon, with Israeli attacks killing over 10 people, according to...
BEIRUT — The Trump administration has reportedly sent Iran a 15-point proposal aimed at ending the ongoing Middle East war, which Tehran rejected and reportedly countered the offer with a six-point...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun extended his wishes for "recovery and unity" to the Lebanese people on Wednesday on the occasion of the Annunciation celebration. "May this holiday be...
Nader Siklawi, director of archaeological excavations in south Lebanon, a Culture Ministry body, affixed a metal blue shield sign in front of the al-Bass Roman hippodrome, a UNESCO World Heritage...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned Wednesday that the Middle East war presented a "far worse" scenario than the invasion of Iraq in 2003. "This is not the same scenario as...
A strike on a base in western Iraq killed seven security personnel, the defense ministry said Wednesday, a day after an attack on the same base targeted the former paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi....
The Israeli military announced on Wednesday it had struck two naval cruise missile production facilities operating under Iran's ministry of defence in Tehran. "In recent days, the Israeli...
The sharp noise of shattered glass and clearing rubble still echoes through the usually quiet streets of Hazmieh on this Tuesday morning, east of Beirut. After an Israeli strike targeted the...
The United States is negotiating with itself, an Iranian military spokesman said according to state media on Wednesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Tehran wants to make a deal to...
Although it no longer discloses the identities of its “martyrs,” as it did during the previous escalation in fall of 2024, Hezbollah continues to sustain losses on the southern Lebanon front.After...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Some key things to watch today:Iranian confirmation or denial of peace talks with the U.S.Cross-border ground...
23:47 Beirut Time Israeli airstrike in Kounin, south Lebanon killed 3 people The Public Health has reported that an Israeli strike killed three people and injured four others in...
Washington sent a peace plan to Iran, U.S. media reported, as President Donald Trump voiced optimism Tuesday at ending nearly a month of warfare and Tehran announced that it will let...
A Thai oil tanker has safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz following diplomatic coordination between Thailand and Iran, and was not required to pay to escape the blockade, a Thai official and...
Israel and Iran exchanged airstrikes on Wednesday, as Iran's military rejected President Donald Trump's claim the U.S. was in negotiations to end to the war which has roiled energy and...
Australia's home affairs ministry said on Wednesday it would temporarily restrict some Iranian visitor visa holders who are outside Australia from travelling to the country, saying the move was...
Dear reader, "It is precisely the heart of our collective mission – to report, understand, and, where necessary, expose these facts – that is being deliberately attacked, amid widespread...
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent four decades explaining the Middle East through a single, immutable metaphor: an octopus. Its tentacles stretch across the region — Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza,...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday evening, a Downing Street spokesperson...
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
