The European Union congratulated Lebanon and Israel on Friday after the two countries reached a historic agreement on their common maritime border, saying the deal "will help bring stability and...
VIENNA, Austria — Iran is a problem that is ever more "relevant," the UN nuclear watchdog's chief, Rafael Grossi, said on Friday, in an apparent reference to the growing number of advanced...
While they prefer to speak in the name of their passion project, The Ready Hand , there is no doubt that Pascale Habis and Zeina Raphael are the driving force behind this initiative. Curious,...
Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water Walid Fayad announced in a Friday statement that he has launched three tenders to purchase fuel oil shipments compatible with the Electricité du Liban's (EDL)...
Qatar's foreign ministry summoned the German ambassador Friday to give him a protest memorandum over interior minister Nancy Faeser's comments regarding Qatar's hosting of the 2022 football World...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Friday, during a meeting with US envoy Amos Hochstein, that the agreement reached the day before with Lebanon on the delineation of the maritime border...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Friday that its intelligence unit foiled a bomb attack in the southern city of Shiraz, the scene of a deadly shooting at a shrine on Wednesday. Fars news, close to...
Leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) Gebran Bassil said Friday that Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, among others, want "to achieve a government...
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea called on Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Friday to convene a parliamentary electoral session "until someone is elected," just days ahead of President...
Lebanon has just received some of the fuel required for Electricité du Liban to run its power plants. This shipment was originally scheduled to be delivered in August under an agreement inked in...
The sister of a Tunisian woman jailed by Saudi Arabia for retweeting a post about Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Friday urged Tunis authorities to intervene on her behalf. Sunni-ruled Saudi...
BEIRUT — While the minimal increase in the hours of electricity supply by Electricité du Liban remains pending following the receipt of 30,000 tons of diesel, the situation is still such that the...
DUBAI — Authorities in the Iranian city of Zahedan have sacked the police chief and the head of a police station near where dozens of people were killed four weeks ago during protests which have...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Michel Aoun, said Friday that "no law" prevents the resignation of the government of Najib Mikati, which he threatened to implement if Prime Minister-designate Najib...
BEIRUT — The prices of Lebanese bread packets slightly increased on Friday by the Ministry of Economy after they were last modified in early September, a measure officially justified by various...
BEIRUT - The Lebanese presidency announced Friday evening that a "formula" had been found to modify the demarcation of the maritime border between Lebanon and Cyprus, hours after the visit of a...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranians kept up protests calling for the toppling of the Islamic Republic on Friday, as activists posted videos of crowds demanding the death of the supreme leader...
“This is a historic day,” said US envoy Amos Hochstein on Thursday while at Baabda Palace, enthusing about the maritime border demarcation agreement he brokered and that Lebanon and Israel...
NEW YORK — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday welcomed the signing of the maritime border agreement between Lebanon and Israel, saying it can promote greater stability in the region...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Friday announced a slight increase in fuel prices as the lira lost some of its value in recent hours. Here are the new prices: • Twenty...
NABLUS — Two Palestinians were killed Friday by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The ministry announced the death of Imad Abu Rashid, 47, who “was...
BAYSOUR, Mount Lebanon — The sun sets over a terraced patch of farmland in the mountains just outside Beirut, and three young men turn on their battery-powered lights to scan the brush. They...
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government on Thursday ending more than a year of deadlock, but still faces many challenges. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, 52, who previously...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Thursday recorded 22 new cholera cases in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 368, the Health Ministry said in its daily report. One more person...
Russia's use of Iranian drones in Ukraine is "appalling," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday, adding that the United States and allies would seek to block such shipments. Russia...
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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
