The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury removed Lebanese national Dany Khoury from its sanctions list on Friday, according to an announcement on the bureau’s website. The...
Karima Chebbo, director of the campaign "My nationality, a right for me and my family," has been advocating for decades for the right of Lebanese women to pass on their nationality to...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party suffered a humiliating election defeat to the left-wing Green Party in an area it had dominated for almost a century, calling the result...
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) handed over on Thursday to the Lebanese Army the last two of five demined fields in the past six months. The ceremony took place in Blida...
It’s been a swift, uneventful week — a sense of impending doom about a looming regional war notwithstanding.Outside of work, my greatest achievement this week was finishing season 4 of...
Dear reader, The other day, while lamenting my struggling cooking journey, a friend and I reached a conclusion: I’m just a very good “comfort food cook.” And by comfort food, I mean labneh...
In a black-and-white photograph, Tamar Ben-Ami stands with a kerchief over her hair and a bouquet in her hand. To her right, Mahmoud Darwish, young and dark-haired, holds her tenderly.It's the...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced Friday that it had seized a mobile laboratory intended for the manufacture of captagon in the Harf al-Sammaqa region, in the Hermel jurd highlands. "As...
Israel's Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the government from shuttering the Gaza operations of dozens of aid organizations which petitioned the court in a dispute over new Israeli...
Makhlouf, a concept that is successfully exported. Photo Mychael Cassia Makhlouf, the guardian of the templeIt's a story that spans a century. When Jad al-Halabi decided to bring the Makhlouf...
U.S. envoy Tom Barrack met Friday with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Shiite alliance’s candidate for prime minister, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters . Maliki...
The Finance Ministry on Friday held an expanded meeting that brought together Finance Minister Yassin Jaber, Special Investigation Commission (SIC) President Abdelhafez Mansour, as well as the High...
She makes it clear, politely, that she does not want to be there. Tense since the day before, after paparazzi secretly photographed her during rehearsals and sparked unexpected media attention,...
At a supermarket checkout in Hadath, south of Beirut, Nour* watches the screen carefully as her groceries are scanned. One by one, she asks the cashier to remove items, then studies the receipt....
BEIRUT — A late-season burst of snow and biting northern winds has brought a welcome lift to Lebanon’s ski resorts, coating mountain slopes and extending hopes for a longer winter season. The...
The Lebanese Army established seven new positions near Lebanon's southern border in recent days, scattered across the villages of Yaroun, Maroun al-Ras, Aitaroun (Bint Jbeil), Mayss al-Jabal...
With a few weeks until the International Monetary Fund (IMF) spring meetings in Washington in April, the government continues to face a thorny issue that is casting a shadow over the negotiations:...
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem announced on Friday it was allowing non-emergency government personnel and family members to leave Israel "due to safety risks," adding that people who...
On Wednesday, the Constitutional Council struck down the judicial independence law passed last July, sending the legislation back to the drawing board.This assessment is interpreted in two distinct...
Pakistan launched air strikes on cities in neighboring Afghanistan on Friday, in a major escalation after months of attacks and cross-border strikes along their porous frontier. Here is what we...
President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Thursday signed a decree opening an extraordinary parliamentary session from March 2 to March 16, 2026, inclusive. The move comes only days...
Accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump that Iran will soon possess a missile capable of reaching the United States are not supported by reports from American intelligence agencies and appear...
The statements that leaked on Thursday from Geneva, where Iranian and U.S. officials held another round of talks, revealed rigid and tense positions. Above all, they conflicted with each other....
A powerful Iran-backed Iraqi armed group told its fighters to prepare for the scenario of a long war in neighboring Iran should the United States launch strikes. Kata'ib Hezbollah warned the...
Gaza's Civil Defense said Israeli strikes killed at least five people on Friday. Violence has continued in the Palestinian territory despite a U.S.-brokered truce that entered its second phase...
"The fight continues for everyone else." That was the rallying cry of around fifty activists gathered at Ahmad Souab's home after his surprise release on Feb. 23, reports Loubna Sidi,...
Iran and the United States made "significant progress" in talks in Switzerland on Thursday, mediators said, after the latest round of negotiations to avert a war between the longtime...
As the risk of war between Washington and Tehran lingers despite ongoing talks, official statements from both sides dominate headlines. But what about the Arab communities in the Levant, a region...
21:17 Beirut Time Three flights between Istanbul and Tehran cancelled, according to airport data Three flights connecting Istanbul to Tehran were cancelled on Friday, according to...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Feb. 27, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz Some key things to watch today:Comments on the U.S.-Iran negotiations yesterday, which...
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
