The UN Security Council on Tuesday expressed dismay over the recent civilian deaths in the occupied West Bank and urged all parties to "refrain from unilateral actions that further inflame...
BEIRUT — Lebanon lost 122-70 to the US in the third and final group game of the Under-19 basketball World Championships currently underway in Budapest, Hungary. This was Lebanon's second time...
After spending past summers debating burkinis, France looks set for a new bout of arguing over Islamic clothing, this time over whether female football players should be allowed to wear headscarves...
BEIRUT — Born in 1937 in Tripoli, Abdallah Homsi first became interested in acting at the age of 15. Then began his career alongside actor Salah Tizani, who played the character of Abou Salim in a...
BEIRUT — On Monday, the Lebanese Army's intelligence services briefly arrested a leader of the Syrian Social National Party (SSNP), Ali Arar, for his alleged involvement in a murder that took place...
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), the consultancy firm tasked with conducting a forensic audit of Banque du Liban’s accounts, reportedly sent its report to caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil...
BEIRUT — A father and his five-year-old child were seriously injured on Sunday in Bouar, on the Kesrwan coast in Mount Lebanon, after being hit by a jet-ski, the state-run National News Agency...
Saudi Arabia's statistics authority announced Tuesday that this year's annual hajj pilgrimage has drawn more than 1.8 million worshippers, falling short of a record despite predictions of peak...
BEIRUT — The Civil Defense on Tuesday afternoon put out a fire that erupted in Dawra, which triggered panic among locals due to its closeness to fuel tanks in the area. Civil Defense said the fire...
The lira libnaniyya (or, lebnaniyeh , if you prefer) might be on its deathbed . After four years of brutal depreciation, economists say it has lost its role as a store of value. As a medium...
GENEVA — The UN refugee agency warned on Tuesday that an earlier projection that conflict in Sudan would prompt 1 million people to flee across its borders is likely to be surpassed....
BEIRUT — Lebanon has come under scrutiny from various human rights organizations for its lack of progress in addressing the issue of torture by security officials, despite passing an anti-torture...
If a landmark reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran has eased tensions in the Gulf, clouds have also lifted at the hajj pilgrimage, where Iranian visitors finally feel welcome again....
Have the regional leaders supported by Wagner, a Russian paramilitary group, been trembling silently since Friday evening? Does the weekend’s sequence of events signal the end of the Russian...
TEL AVIV — Israel's Shin Bet security agency has incorporated artificial intelligence into its tradecraft and used the technology to foil "threats," its director said on Tuesday,...
For many Sudanese struggling to survive the war, a taste of the sheep Muslims traditionally sacrifice for the feast of Eid al-Adha is but a distant memory. The conflict,...
The Internal Security Forces announced Tuesday that they seized 450,000 Captagon pills hidden in electrical equipment in the southern suburbs of Beirut. In a press release, the police explained...
BEIRUT — An electrical generator exploded on Tuesday morning at a residential building in Beirut’s Zoqaq al-Blat neighborhood, causing a massive fire, Civil Defense spokesperson Charbel Msann told...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices remained unchanged in Lebanon, diesel prices slightly increased and gas cylinder prices decreased, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry on Tuesday...
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims crowded Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Tuesday, the climax of a potentially record-breaking hajj pilgrimage held in fierce summer heat....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . State electricity provider Électricité du Liban (EDL) announced a list of Beirut neighborhoods that will receive an additional...
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?
