A cargo of sanctioned Iranian crude oil that was confiscated by the US has sat off the Texas coast for eight weeks, unable to unload because commercial agents fear any vessel that takes it...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad and caretaker Public Works Minister Ali Hamieh on Tuesday inspected the logistical support base for the maritime platform which, starting August, will...
BEIRUT — On Tuesday, Mount Lebanon investigating judge Rania Yahfoufi issued a warrant for the arrest of Garderêve day-care center employee J. B. S., who filmed another employee abusing children at...
BEIRUT — Kuwaiti producer and journalist Nadia Ahmad and her Lebanese husband, entrepreneur Ali Farhat, are fighting over custody of their two-year-old daughter and have given contradictory...
Iranian authorities have arrested several followers of the Bahai faith accused of spying for Tehran's arch-foe Israel, local media in the Islamic republic reported on Tuesday....
The US military said a Russian fighter jet hit a US drone with a flare and "severely" damaged its propeller over Syria, the latest in a series of closer interactions by Russian military aircraft in...
A small group of activists set fire to Qurans in front of the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in Copenhagen on Tuesday after similar protests in Denmark and Sweden over recent weeks that have...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Tuesday afternoon that a "breach in the presidential wall" has been opened following a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron's special envoy for...
Egypt summoned Sweden's chargé d'affaires to condemn incidents where copies of the Quran have been burned, the foreign ministry's spokesperson said on Tuesday. Egypt informed the...
BEIRUT — Cabinet should meet to appoint a new Banque du Liban governor, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati during a meeting on Tuesday, according to the...
BEIRUT — Beirut's First Investigative Judge Charbel Abou Samra on Tuesday postponed a scheduled hearing of Banque du Liban's Raja Salameh and Marianne Hoayek due to an electricity cut, according to...
Taymour Joumblatt officially assumed the reins of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) almost a month ago, but he is still keeping his usual low profile. Since his father Walid withdrew from...
The European Union is setting up a dedicated sanctions framework for Sudan to eventually target key actors in the ongoing war with travel bans and asset and bank account freezes, diplomatic...
BEIRUT — After around eight months of back and forth, South Lebanon governor Mansour Daou finally accepted the resignation of Saida mayor Mohammad al-Saoudi, the state-run National News Agency...
Watching Zakaria Jaber's documentary, Anxious in Beirut (2023), which was recently awarded a Golden Goblet at Shanghai International Film Festival, was a surreal experience. I spent much of the...
The United Nations said on Tuesday it had begun transferring one million barrels of oil from a rusting super-tanker off war-torn Yemen, in a bid to avert a catastrophic spill....
BEIRUT — All fuel prices went up on Tuesday, according to the latest tariffs issued by the Energy Ministry. These are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,701,000, up by...
Lebanon is filled to the brim with the logos, brands, and markers of humanitarian organizations, bringing money, projects, and personnel into the country. Assistant Professor of Humanitarian...
An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck central Turkey on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 12 km (7.46 miles),...
A top envoy to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Monday said it was "time for peace" in Sudan and the Darfur region even as RSF's war with Sudan's regular army passed its 100th day....
Algeria said Monday it had summoned the Danish and Swedish envoys to condemn recent desecrations of the Quran in Copenhagen and Stockholm. The foreign ministry said...
Jordan's parliament should withdraw a draft cybercrimes law that puts free speech in jeopardy and could pave the way for an increase in online censorship in a country where freedoms were already...
Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deaths in a surge of violence in the territory since early last year....
Hezbollah said on Monday its arch-foe Israel was on a "path of collapse and fragmentation," referring to divisions in Israeli society over a contested overhaul of its judiciary....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. The mother and grandfather of Lynn Taleb, the five-year-old girl from North Lebanon who died earlier this summer, face criminal...
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
