BEIRUT — The head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Gebran Bassil, called Friday night on Hezbollah, his former ally, to "engage in the state-building project and hand over its weapons to...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he had saved Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamanei from assassination and lashed out at the supreme leader for ingratitude, declaring he would order more bombing...
Syria said Friday that authorities had seized some three million pills of the illicit stimulant captagon after clashes with a drug trafficking network near the Lebanese border. Authorities...
American President Donald Trump stated on Friday during his press conference that the United States was "with Lebanon until the end." Asked about a specific timetable for disarming...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday in favor of Christian and Muslim parents in Maryland who sued to keep their elementary school children out of certain classes when storybooks with LGBT...
BEIRUT — Over a year after doubling Lebanon’s minimum wage to 18 million Lebanese Liras ($200 at the 89,500 to the dollar rate), the Cabinet approved on Friday a new raise to LL28 million ($312, or...
The world "has the obligation" to prevent Iran from acquiring the atomic bomb, Israeli Foreign Minister stated Friday, three days after Israel proclaimed a "historic victory"...
At a White House press conference on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a string of pointed remarks on the Middle East, taking direct aim at Iran’s leadership while expressing strong...
The Abraham Accords, launched in 2020 under the Trump administration, marked a notable diplomatic shift by establishing formal ties between Israel and several Arab and Muslim-majority...
BEIRUT — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has received Lebanon’s official request to renew the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), submitted Wednesday, and will...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected a report that the country's military commanders ordered their soldiers to fire at Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid in...
BEIRUT —The Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein Hajj Hassan stated on Friday, that his party “will not surrender, will not change and will not be defeated,” categorically rejecting any form of normalization...
BEKAA — The municipality of Zahle-Mwallaqa and Taanayel began on Friday the dismantling of several informal camps of displaced Syrians that fall within its perimeter. In a statement reported by...
The 50th medic from the Palestine Red Crescent has been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, the PRCS said on Friday in a statement. Haitham Bassam Abu Issa, a nurse at the PRCS clinic in...
BEIRUT — The Green Southerners association wrote on its Facebook account Thursday that it had learned the Defense Ministry executed the order to halt work on the Shwakir site in Sour, on the orders...
BEIRUT — An oil spill was observed Thursday afternoon off the coast of Jiyeh, on the Chouf coast, south of Beirut. In this region known for its beaches, among the most beautiful and cleanest in...
Gaza's civil defence agency said that Israeli forces killed at least 62 people on Friday, including 10 who were waiting for aid in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. Civil defence...
Thousands of Syrian refugees have returned from Lebanon to Syria since the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad. During that same period, though, just as many Syrians have fled Syria for Lebanon...
"God is good, love Him." Hassan ends all his TikTok and Instagram videos filmed amid the ruins of Houla with this sardonic phrase. With a styled mustache and trimmed beard, the young influencer...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese Army patrol on Thursday thwarted an attempt to smuggle shells and explosives from Syria into Lebanon, in the locality of Bsaibes (Baalbeck-Hermel district). According to a...
BEIRUT — The General Directorate of the National Social Security Fund (NSS) announced in a statement the disbursement on Friday of a new envelope of 45 billion Lebanese lira, approximately 502,000...
TRIPOLI — An abandoned school collapsed Friday afternoon along the road to Tripoli's citadel, in northern Lebanon's biggest city, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the North...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese Army patrol foiled an attempt on Thursday to smuggle shells and explosives from Syria into Lebanon, in the locality of Bsaibes (Baalbeck-Hermel). According to a message posted...
BEIRUT — Judge Tarek Bitar, in charge of the investigation into the Beirut Port explosion of Aug. 4, 2020, postponed the interrogation of Ghazi Zeaiter, an Amal Movement MP and former minister who...
Three minutes, not one more, and a single static slide for support: this was the challenge posed to the nine doctoral candidate finalists from USJ, UL, and USEK, during the national final of the...
Israeli soldiers in Gaza are being order to fire on Palestinians as they attempt to collect aid packages from the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's distribution sites,...
Smiling, Mohammad Jaafar seems very proud of his life and the adult he has become today. At 47 years old, the man is extremely happy to finally receive his diploma at the ceremony scheduled for...
It was not in the sober offices of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Jnah, but in the sumptuous surroundings of the Grand Serail in Beirut that the much-anticipated annual...
Cheaper than a motorcycle and faster than a bicycle, electric scooters are becoming an increasingly common sight in Beirut, whether on sidewalks or highways. Priced at a few hundred dollars and...
Holding international gold, silver, and bronze medals, Mariella Bou Habib, a first-year sports management student at Saint Joseph University, is no stranger to victory. The Swedish Open marks a...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army killed a woman and injured 21 people in a series of airstrikes against southern Lebanon's Nabatieh district late Friday morning. The attacks began with two rounds of...
It's finally done. Since June 24, Lebanese people can now use Google Pay — the digital wallet and payment system by the American giant Google — using their smartphones or smartwatches instead...
A slightly grayer beard, a slightly more serious look under red round glasses, but the same sharp mind, Joe Kodeih makes his grand return to the stage with his latest creation al-Ossa Kella (The...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on June 25, Iran will not be building bombs “for a very long time.” He claimed Iran’s nuclear program was set back by decades. In an exceptional move, the White...
“A lot has happened in recent months, and beautiful things,” whispers Chantal Tabet, four years after their first meeting when she shared her story with L’Orient Today, following her remarkable run...
CAIRO/LONDON — Short of commanders, deprived of much of its tunnel network and unsure of support from its ally Iran, Hamas is battling to survive in Gaza in the face of rebellious local clans...
Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem stated Thursday evening that Hezbollah "will resist for our country, whatever the sacrifices," while expressing "pride" in standing "alongside Iran," which...
Faure, Boely, Derghougassian, Kandalaft, Kanaan, Marnhac, these are the composers playing for this new edition of the Musicales of Lebanon on Friday, June 27 at Saint-Sulpice Church in the 6th...
Hezbollah reportedly did not participate in the latest Iran-Israel war at Tehran's request, according to statements made by a senior U.S. official to the Emirati media The National ....
At least two people were killed and five others injured Tuesday evening in armed clashes linked to drug trafficking near the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut’s southern suburbs, in...
For months, U.S. President Donald Trump had warned his ally against any military adventure. Didn't he pledge during his inaugural address to measure his success not only by the "battles we win, but...
TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday the outcome of Israel's war with Iran presented opportunities for peace that his country must not waste. In a...
The Israeli army has congratulated itself on having "achieved a major strategic success and obtained total air superiority in the heart of Iran, reaching all the objectives set for Operation...
21:46 Beirut Time Health Ministry announces that the Israeli strike in Shaqra injured four people. 21:18 Beirut Time An Israeli drone strike targeted an...
TEHRAN — Iran on Thursday denied it is set to resume nuclear talks with the United States after the end of a 12-day war with Israel, and accused Washington of exaggerating the impact of U.S....
The U.S. State Department announced Thursday that it had approved $30 million in funding for the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation backed by Israel and run by U.S. contractors as an aid...
BEIRUT — A new French general has replaced General Guillaume Ponchin as France's representative in the five-member cease-fire monitoring committee established as part of the November truce to...
BEIRUT — Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, SpaceX CEO, X CEO and the world's richest man, told President Joseph Aoun he's interested in seeing his companies operate in Lebanon, Aoun's office...
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
