BEIRUT — Stability in south Lebanon depends on the “good relationship between UNIFIL, the authorities and the residents of Lebanon,” as well as the demarcation of the land border, caretaker Foreign...
Fighting in Sudan showed no signs of abating Friday as the United Nations issued a dire warning over the impact of a war it said threatens to "consume" the country....
BEIRUT — Journalist and founder of Lebanon's “As-Safir” newspaper Talal Salman died on Friday at age 85, the state-run National News Agency reported. Salman, born in 1938, founded the newspaper in...
BEIRUT — Controversy over whether and when Lebanese cinemas will be allowed to screen the "Barbie" film, or simply cut out some scenes, has brought questions about the country's vague censorship...
BEIRUT — Libyan militant group Tarek Bin Zeyad Brigade (TBZ) has abducted 110 migrants, including 37 children, who took to sea off the coast of Abdeh in Lebanon's Akkar governorate, and has...
BEIRUT — A more than three-year-old investigation in Monaco into alleged money laundering by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and his family has been closed, Mikati's press office announced...
BEIRUT—The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Finance held an event Thursday to mark the conclusion of a two-month project tasking youth volunteers to work through the...
BEIRUT — Acting General Security Chief Elias Bayssari announced on Friday the arrest at Beirut's airport of two suspects who have alleged connections with Israel. During a press conference held...
Israel's far-right national security minister on Friday sparred with US supermodel Bella Hadid over his comments this week that Palestinians condemned as racist. In an interview...
The top Dutch court upheld an appeals ruling Friday that said former Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz was immune from prosecution in a case relating to a deadly 2014 air strike in Gaza....
Seven jihadist fighters were killed Friday in bombardments by government forces in northern Syria, a war monitor said, amid escalating violence in the country's last main opposition bastion....
Iran on Friday launched exercises to test its “electronic warfare” capabilities against mock enemy drones, fighter jets and helicopters, state television reported. It said units...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea announced on Friday that his party would file a civil suit against anyone implicated in the suspected murder of Elias Hasrouni, a former LF...
Pressured by Hezbollah, the Lebanese state has no intention of giving up. Ahead of the upcoming expiration of the UNIFIL’s mandate on Aug. 31, caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib...
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War and hunger risk destroying Sudan where fighting between rival generals erupted in mid-April, the United Nations warned on Friday. The conflict "and the hunger, disease...
BEIRUT — The funerals of Lebanese Army Lieutenant Richard Saab and Captain Joseph Hanna, who died when the military helicopter they were traveling in crashed in Hammana on Wednesday evening, began...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's central bank will not print money to lend the state or cover the crisis-hit economy's projected deficit, acting central bank governor Wassim Mansouri said on Friday, calling on...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon increased slightly on Friday, according to the latest tariffs issued by the Energy Ministry. These are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline:...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad announced that 3D seismic studies to determine the hydrocarbon potential of offshore oil...
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
