BEIRUT — The first investigating judge in North Lebanon, Samranda Nassar, issued two arrest warrants for the mother and grandfather of Lynn Taleb on Thursday, a senior judicial confirmed to...
DAMASCUS — A bomb planted in a taxi exploded outside the Sayeda Zeinab shrine city south of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, wounding an unspecified number of people, Syrian state media...
BEIRUT — A plane departing from Beirut aborted its takeoff on Thursday morning following a decision by the pilot, with no further consequences for passengers. The aircraft did not leave the...
BEIRUT — After being invited to dinner at a friend's house in the Sioufi neighborhood of Ashrafieh on Tuesday, two women in their sixties separately fell to their deaths down the elevator shaft of...
Judge Tarek Bitar wants to continue his investigation into the Beirut port explosion at all costs, several judicial sources have told L’Orient-Le Jour . Two and a half years ago, Bitar was tasked...
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is "extremely worried" about the consequences should further demonstrations during which copies of the Quran go ahead, he said on Thursday....
Around war-torn Syria's biggest freshwater dam reservoir, fishermen say their catch is now a fraction of what it used to be as environmental pressures have decimated aquatic life....
BEIRUT – Families of the Beirut port explosion victims announced the schedule for the upcoming Aug. 4 protest, which will commemorate the third anniversary of the blast. Over 220 people were...
The Sudanese army's delegation to talks in Jeddah aimed at restoring peace to Sudan has returned home "for consultations" and will continue "after obstacles are overcome," an army statement said on...
The Swedish state does not sanction or condone Quran burnings but they are permitted by Swedish freedom of speech laws, Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Thursday. "In...
Rockets pummeled the Sudanese capital Thursday, witnesses said, as paramilitaries attacked a key air force base north of the capital, claiming to have killed and wounded "dozens" of soldiers....
BEIRUT — Dar al-Fatwa, Lebanon's highest Sunni religious authority, is postponing its first-ever event to mark the "Martyrdom of Imam Hussein," a primarily Shiite religious commemoration, a Sunni...
Almost 800 migrants drowned off Tunisia in the first half of the year as they tried to reach Europe by boat, National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli told AFP Thursday....
Iraq has arrested a suspect in one of the most notorious war crimes of Daesh (the Islamic State group), the 2014 massacre of up to 1,700 captive cadets, authorities said Thursday....
BEIRUT — A cabinet meeting scheduled for Thursday morning to appoint the next Banque du Liban (BDL) governor failed due to a lack of quorum. Current BDL Governor Riad Salameh, who has held his...
“I am a facilitator commissioned by the group of five”: with these remarks the French president Emmanuel Macron’s special envoy for Lebanon summed up the second episode of his mission to uncover a...
Jordan on Thursday condemned what it termed as the "storming" by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, warning of its dangerous consequences....
She arrives dressed in a form-fitting, bubble gum-colored t-shirt dress — a creation of her own, just like everything else she wears. Hanging from her wrist is a petite handbag and her nails were...
BEIRUT — French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian met Thursday with MP Mohammad Raad, the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, on the third and final day of his visit to Beirut in a bid to break...
BEIRUT — In what could be one of his final media appearances as the governor of Banque du Liban (BDL) before his term ends on July 31, Riad Salameh spoke on LBCI Wednesday night, defending his...
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager during an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and official media said Thursday. The...
Kuwait put to death five people on Thursday, including a man convicted of involvement in a 2015 Islamic State group suicide bombing that killed 26 people, the Public Prosecution said. In a...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Riad Salameh defended his 30-year term as Banque Du Liban (BDL) governor in an interview with LBCI, reaffirming that he would...
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
