BEIRUT — One month has passed since the cease-fire that brought a supposed end to the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel came into effect. But southern Lebanon and the Bekaa still resemble...
The price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) produced and sold by private or neighborhood electricity generators for bills issued in December has risen by around thirty Lebanese pounds, ending a series of...
Huge crowds demonstrated in Yemen's capital on Friday, a day after Israeli jets pounded Houthi rebel targets across Yemen, killing at least six people, including four at Sanaa's international...
ANKARA — Turkey has decided to allow parliament's pro-Kurdish DEM Party to hold face-to-face talks with militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on his island prison, the party said on Friday, setting up...
The municipal council of the village of Kabrikha, in the Marjayoun district, announced that it has dismantled — in cooperation with the Lebanese Army — a roadblock of soil placed by the Israeli...
BEIRUT — Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to...
This was a priority for Syria’s new rulers. On Dec. 24, the Syrian transitional government took a decisive step by concluding an agreement to unify the country’s armed factions into a single...
The handshake did not go unnoticed. On Dec. 19, the Turkish and Iranian presidents greeted each other warmly at a summit in Cairo, just ten days after the flight to Moscow of Bashar al-Assad, a...
Since the launch by the new Syrian government of an operation against militias loyal to Bashar al-Assad in western Syria, the border area between Lebanon and Syria has been the scene of a series of...
The Southern Council announced in a statement on Friday that it had launched its call for tenders for "the demolition and transportation of the rubble of buildings destroyed, completely or...
After a challenging few months, we’re delighted to bring back L’Orient Today’s Breakfast in Bed – our carefully selected reads for your weekend mornings. We’re kicking things off again with a...
A "notorious" arms trafficker was arrested on Friday by State Security in Akkar, North Lebanon, the security agency announced in a statement. The man, identified by the initials M.H., is...
Former head of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) Walid Joumblatt on Friday welcomed the first official contact on Wednesday between the new government in Syria and Lebanon but criticized the...
Captured by American satellites during the Cold War, previously unseen images of 396 Roman forts are now accessible to researchers. These photographs were taken as part of the Corona and Hexagon...
The new governor of Damascus, Maher Marwan, expressed earlier this week the desire of the new authorities in Syria to "establish peaceful relations with Israel," while showing himself to be...
The war in southern Lebanon, which began on Oct. 8, 2023, when Hezbollah opened a ‘support front’ for Gaza and escalated with intensified Israeli offensives in the fall, came to a tentative pause...
The prices of all fuels rose once more on Friday after decreasing slightly on Tuesday, according to the latest rates published by the Ministry of Energy. The cost for a domestic gas cylinder...
A 75-year-old Lebanese woman was found dead on Friday in Yaroun, a village located a few kilometers from the border with Israel that has been heavily destroyed in recent months, the mayor of the...
Saudi diplomats made their journey back to Kabul. More than three years after their departure from Afghanistan, after the Taliban seized control of the capital emboldened by the U.S. withdrawal,...
The consumer price index (CPI), which measures price increases in Lebanese lira in the country, rose again by more than 2 percent in November, two months after recording its only decline in two and...
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Friday said they fired a missile at Israel's Ben Gurion airport after Israel's military reported a missile had been intercepted. The...
An Israeli hospital reported that a woman in her eighties was killed after being stabbed in the coastal city of Herzliya on Friday, while police stated that the suspected attacker had been...
A short video making the rounds on social media and news outlets shows a priest conducting a Christmas Mass on Wednesday with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder. The scene, recorded at Mar...
Following the withdrawal of Israeli forces, which had deployed vehicles in the strategic Wadi Hujeir, the Lebanese army stressed on Thursday evening that this withdrawal had taken place "following...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Dec. 30, 2024 Some key things to watch today:11 a.m. Caretaker Public Works and Transport Minister Ali Hamieh will sponsor...
21:35 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage of events in the region, thanks for joining us and have...
Israeli air strikes pummelled Sanaa's international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday, with Houthi rebel media reporting six deaths. World Health Organization...
A Syria war monitor said Thursday the country's new authorities had arrested a military justice official under the ousted government of President Bashar al-Assad who issued death sentences for...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Dec. 27, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Developments in Syria as a new government slowly...
The war in Lebanon has been brutal, terrifying and devastating. How many Lebanese have lost loved ones to Israeli bombings? How many more have lost their homes? Yet, amidst the immense suffering,...
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
