French President Emmanuel Macron, who will host his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun in Paris on Friday, will also have a "trilateral meeting" with him and interim Syrian President Ahmad...
President Joseph Aoun said Thursday that "Hezbollah is cooperating in southern Lebanon" and that priority was now "given" to this region recovering from a destructive war...
The Syrian Ministry of the Interior announced Thursday in a statement the launch of a "security operation against Hezbollah cells in the Sayyida Zeinab area, in the Damascus countryside,"...
The CEO of CMA CGM, Rodolph Saadeh, met separately on Thursday with President Joseph Aoun and Minister of Public Works Fayez Rassamny, with whom he discussed his group's investments in Lebanon,...
The claim: A "suspect Lebanese ship drifting towards Israeli shores" was reportedly targeted on Tuesday by the Israeli military while it was off the "buffer zone between Israel and...
It's now official. Following the long reign of Riad Salameh, the fallen king of Lebanese finance after four terms, and Wassim Manssouri's interim position since July 31, 2023, Karim Souhaid...
The Lebanese Defense Minister, Michel Menassa, and his Syrian counterpart, Mourhaf Abou Qasra, arrived Thursday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where they are scheduled to hold a meeting with the...
Six people were killed Thursday in a series of Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Lebanese authorities said, with Israel claiming to target Hezbollah fighters. These strikes occured despite the truce that...
The Interior Minister, Ahmad Hajjar, presided over a security meeting on Thursday during which several measures were taken for the Eid al-Fitr period this weekend, reported the state-run National...
A fire, which broke out Friday shortly after 3 p.m. in Mina (Tripoli), claimed the lives of five members of the same family of Syrian nationality, who are the five children of the building's...
MPs from the Strong Lebanon bloc, led by Gebran Bassil, filed an appeal on Thursday before the Constitutional Council in Hadath, in the suburbs of Beirut, contesting the constitutionality of the...
Israel’s appointed ambassador to Egypt, Ori Rotman, was left off the guest list for a presidential accreditation ceremony in Cairo this week, according to reports in Israeli media. Sidelining...
BEIRUT — A General Security member was arrested for allegedly molesting a six-year-old Syrian girl, a security source told L'Orient Today. Local television station MTV posted a video showing...
Egypt confirmed in a Wednesday report that Israel has rejected all of its recent proposals put forward for a deal between Israel and Hamas, amid attempts by mediators to relaunch negotiations...
Houthis announced Thursday they targeted an Israeli airport and army site as well as a US warship, soon after Israel reported intercepting missiles launched from Yemen. The Houthis "targeted...
Municipal elections have been all over Lebanese media for days. The ballot has been postponed since 2022, despite being crucial for the functioning of local authorities in the country's towns...
BEIRUT — Nearly two years after Riad Salameh's last term ended, Cabinet has finally agreed on his successor, choosing fund manager Karim Souhaid as the new governor of the Banque du Liban (BDL)....
"From an operational security perspective, it's the biggest mess possible. These people cannot ensure America's safety," said Pete Buttigieg, a prominent figure in the American...
He is one of the 6,500 people injured, innocent victims of the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. At the moment of the double blast at the Beirut port, Rony Mecattaf was at a friend's...
“The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release our hostages, the more powerful the pressure we will exert,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, March 26, a week after...
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Thursday that the fate of nine emergency medical technicians (EMTs) remains unknown for the fifth consecutive day after being “besieged and...
Like every day, Omar* went down to open his medical practice in Istanbul on Tuesday afternoon. The massive protests that shook his adopted city every night for a week do not concern him....
Relations between President Joseph Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri are seemingly going better than expected.While initially having no common ground — due to what seemed like irreconcilable...
In his essentially symbolic role, the Israeli president took a stand. Isaac Herzog decided not to host the opening evening of the government's conference on anti-Semitism, organized on March 26...
Every other Thursday, Nima invites a viral social media trend back to her place, and dissects it under a Middle Eastern ring light. It seems that Instagram and TikTok have created a space to test...
Following his meeting with French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian and ahead of a session with the parliamentary Health Committee, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam took time to meet with a delegation from the...
We had the opportunity to meet Joseph Aoun before he was elected president. He was exactly as he had been described to us — affable, intelligent, moderate, politically astute and quite...
BEIRUT – The leadership of Lebanon’s central bank, Banque Du Liban (BDL), has been held by Wassim Mansouri on an interim basis since August 2023. For weeks, heated negotiations have been underway...
BOSTON — U.S. federal immigration authorities arrested and detained Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk on Tuesday, and revoked her visa, in the latest case of the Trump administration's suppression of...
Israel's parliament Thursday passed a law expanding elected officials' power to appoint judges, defying a years-long movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious judicial...
Israeli strikes targeted the coastal Latakia province at dawn on Thursday, Syrian state media reports, with a war monitor saying munitions depots were hit and at least six strikes were recorded. So...
It is now an open secret: Barring any last-minute surprises, Karim Souaid, a well-known expert in wealth and asset management, is expected to be appointed as Wassim Mansouri’s successor following...
BEIRUT — Three people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a car in Yohmor al-Shakif, in south Lebanon’s Nabatieh district, on Thursday morning, despite the cease-fire between Israel and...
Jean-Yves Le Drian is back in Beirut. A little more than two months after the presidential elections, during which he played a key role, the French special envoy for Lebanon begins a new chapter of...
21:53 Beirut Time Thank you for joining us for our live coverage for today. We will be back tomorrow with the latest updates. Goodnight! 20:58 Beirut Time Was a...
Banque du Liban (BDL) interim Governor Wassim Manssouri stated in an interview with the Al-Hadath channel on Wednesday that he has “a comprehensive plan to return depositors' funds. "“We...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Catch up on yesterday's live coverage.Thursday, March 27, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Updates on...
American magazine The Atlantic released on Wednesday a full transcript of the text message conversation between senior U.S. security officials in the lead up, execution, and aftermath of U.S....
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
