Trump reminds Netanyahu to toe the line on West Bank
The words were surprisingly firm: U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday expressed opposition to the annexation of the West Bank, stating he "would not allow" Israel to carry out such a...
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Nasrallah assassination: Qassem vows Hezbollah 'will remain armed,' 'ready to face Israel'
Concluding the Saturday ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah's assassination, his successor, Naim Qassem, delivered a forceful...
L'Orient Today staff, 27 September 2025
Amid regional turmoil, Lebanon seeks stability
Once again, Lebanon is torn between those who believe the law must be strictly enforced at any cost and those who support compromise, even if it means bending the rules. The country faces a very...
Scarlett HADDAD, 27 September 2025
At least 82 Palestinians killed Saturday in relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza
At least 82 Palestinians have been killed since Saturday morning amid continuous Israeli army attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera. These Israeli strikes killed at least...
27 September 2025
Projection at Raouche: What legal penalties are applicable?
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said he asked the relevant ministries (interior, justice and defense) to "take appropriate measures" and to "arrest those responsible, shortly after the...
Claude ASSAF and Malek Jadah, 27 September 2025
Sheikh Yazbeck says he was detained for hours at Beirut airport over Hezbollah criticism
BEIRUT — Shiite Sheikh Abbas Yazbeck, a vocal critic of Hezbollah, said he was detained for several hours on Friday at Beirut airport by General Security, without being informed of the reason for...
27 September 2025
Security forces seize three artillery shells in Burj Hammoud
The General Directorate of State Security announced on Sunday that its teams had seized “three 120mm artillery shells” in a building in the Burj Hammoud neighborhood, in eastern Beirut. The...
27 September 2025
After Hezbollah challenge, government opts for de-escalation
The mood appears to be one of reconciliation: Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held a "consultative ministerial meeting" on Friday afternoon to discuss recent developments in the country,...
L'Orient Today staff, 27 September 2025
Syrian judiciary issues arrest warrant in absentia against Bashar al-Assad
Syria’s judiciary on Saturday issued an arrest warrant in absentia against former president Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in December 2024, as part of an investigation into the repression of...
27 September 2025
In Beirut, Hezbollah's 'political May 7' triggers Sunni street
Thousands of Hezbollah supporters gathered Thursday in the Raouche neighborhood to mark the anniversary of the former secretary-general's assassination in the southern suburbs. The chosen...
Stéphanie KHOURI, 27 September 2025
Hamadeh rejects claims of disrespect toward Nasrallah after home protest
After provoking an outcry among Hezbollah supporters over a statement he made the previous day regarding the controversy surrounding the illumination of the Raouche rocks to mark the anniversary of...
27 September 2025
How Hezbollah tries to reinvent itself without Nasrallah
On Oct. 10, 2024, late afternoon, a massive explosion rattled Beirut once again. Israel launched two bombs on the residential Basta neighborhood, killing at least 22 people. The target was Wafic...
Malek Jadah, Nemtala EDDÉ and Salah HIJAZI, 27 September 2025
One year after Nasrallah’s assassination, Aoun calls for ‘rallying’ around the state
One year after the assassination by Israel of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who has made the monopoly on arms a key plank of his agenda, called on the...
27 September 2025
Larijani urges Lebanese leaders to cooperate on ‘domestic issues’
Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, arrived in Beirut on Saturday morning to take part in commemorations marking the assassination of Hezbollah’s former...
27 September 2025
Iranian president says the United States demanded that Iran ‘hand over all’ its enriched uranium
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian said Saturday that the United States had demanded that Iran hand over “all” its enriched uranium in exchange for a three-month extension of a sanctions...
27 September 2025
Gebran Bassil and Ghada Aoun criticize Salameh's release, question origins of bail money
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil and former prosecutor Ghada Aoun strongly criticized the release on Friday of former Central Bank governor Riad Salameh,...
27 September 2025
Qassem: Washington wants to make Lebanon an ‘annex’ of Israel, Hezbollah ready for any confrontation with Israel | LIVE
19:56 Beirut Time Iran nuclear talks Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian told state television that a preliminary agreement had been reached with Europe on the nuclear file, but the...
L’Orient Today staff, 27 September 2025
The United States revokes the visa of the Colombian president, accused of ‘inflammatory’ actions
The United States will revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the State Department announced Friday, accusing him of “reckless and inflammatory actions” during a pro-Palestinian...
27 September 2025
Iran recalls its ambassadors in Germany, France and the United Kingdom for consultations
Iran on Saturday recalled its ambassadors to France, Germany and the United Kingdom for consultations, ahead of the reinstatement of sanctions against Tehran following the failure of negotiations...
27 September 2025
Countdown to the restoration of sanctions against Iran
U.N. sanctions on Iran will be formally reinstated Saturday evening following the failure of talks between European countries, which are demanding assurances on Iran’s nuclear program, and...
27 September 2025
12 countries form a coalition to financially support the Palestinian Authority
12 countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Spain, announced Friday the creation of a coalition to provide financial support to the cash-strapped Palestinian...
27 September 2025
‘Everyone froze’: Lebanese recall Hassan Nasrallah's assassination
Sitting at a café terrace in Beirut’s Badaro district, Rola* was having coffee with friends — “trying to forget the war” — when a series of particularly violent explosions rang out. It was Sept....
