BEIRUT — The Abboudieh crossing point at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border experienced extreme congestion on Tuesday after the Arida crossing point was temporarily closed, L'Orient Today's...
A depositor forcibly collected his savings on Tuesday from a Bankmed branch in Jeb Jennine, Bekaa, the association Cry of the Depositors and a bank spokesman confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour. ...
Israel's tourism minister travelled to Saudi Arabia for a UN conference on Tuesday, his office said, describing the visit as the first public trip to the country by an Israeli cabinet member. Haim...
Hungry and exhausted Armenian families jammed roads to flee homes in the defeated breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, while the United States called on Azerbaijan to protect civilians and let in...
BEIRUT — Parliament's Justice and Administration Committee on Tuesday approved a draft law that would restrict stateless people born in Lebanon since 2011 from obtaining Lebanese citizenship, the...
BEIRUT — Taxi unions say they vow to continue their fight against informal drivers after their success in shuttering Bolt’s motorcycle taxi service earlier this month— the latest in a longstanding...
BEIRUT — Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the headquarters of Électricité du Liban (EDL), attempted to enter the building and then positioned themselves in front of it to block...
Jean-Yves Le Drian, French President Emmanuel Macron's special envoy for Lebanon, has spoken out in an interview with L'Orient-Le Jour for the first time since his appointment. Macron in June...
BEIRUT — The presidential vacuum in Lebanon can only be solved with “dialogue,” Gebran Bassil, the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, said from Dar al-Fatwa, the highest Sunni religious authority...
BEIRUT — "I did my part; I proposed a dialogue initiative that they rejected," Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in an interview with al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Tuesday. He...
“I am more than a smuggler, I consider myself to be, let’s say... a kind of means of transport,” said Omar*, the grip of his gun sticking out of his jeans. “See the mountainside beyond Nahr...
Saudi Arabia, which has engaged in US-brokered talks with Israel to potentially normalize relations, Tuesday sent a delegation to the occupied West Bank for the first time in three decades....
Fighters loyal to the Syrian government have clashed with Kurdish-led forces in a mainly Arab district of eastern Syria, leaving 25 people dead in two days, a war monitor said Tuesday....
BEIRUT — The Lebanese police announced on Monday evening that they had arrested the presumed perpetrator of the shots fired at the US Embassy in Awkar on Wednesday, Sept. 20. Armed with a...
BEIRUT — Najlaa Mikati, the sister of Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, passed away in Jordan on Monday after battling with an illness, the Lebanese state-run National News Agency...
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned an attack on its territory that killed two Bahraini military personnel near the border with war-torn Yemen. Bahrain's military said late...
RIYADH — Violations of a truce by forces of the Saudi-led coalition have not stopped and 12 Yemeni soldiers were killed in one month along Saudi borders, Yemen's Houthi movement said on Tuesday....
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Tuesday announced a slight increase in diesel, gas and generator fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: unchanged...
A Cypriot rescue team transported over 120 people to shore yesterday after receiving a mayday message from an irregular migrant boat that departed from Lebanon on Saturday, a passenger's relative...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
