Lebanon’s caretaker Interior Minister, Bassam Mawlawi, said Thursday that security forces are taking “all necessary measures” to ease traffic congestion caused by the return of displaced residents...
Russian air strikes kill 19 civilians in north Syria: monitor.
The Swiss government on Thursday opposed banning Hezbollah after advocating for a ban on Hamas, who heads the government of the Gaza Strip. Swiss parliamentary committees had called for Hezbollah...
What is left of Hezbollah? In the past 14 months, Hezbollah has lost its secretary-general, dozens of its commanders and hundreds of its fighters, not to mention its infrastructure and military...
With Lebanon remaining without a president since Oct. 31, 2022, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has scheduled a new session to elect a head of state for Jan. 9, 2025. At the start of a legislative...
All airlines, both Arab and foreign, are expected to resume normal flights to and from Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport (RHIA) between Dec. 5 and Dec. 15, 2024, Fadi al-Hassan, the...
On Thursday, a day after the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel was announced, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported a provisional toll of 3,961 killed and 16,520 injured. This includes 78...
Some people from Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani’s circle are involved in hacking, wiretapping and political surveillance scandals. This could prove costly for him and cause a stir in...
There was a pink sky over Beirut at dawn yesterday, while the pillars of smoke that came from the last Israeli salvo settled. The entire country was waiting for 4 a.m. — the announced time for the...
BEIRUT — Almost 36 hours into the cease-fire an Israeli drone launched an airstrike against the village of Tebna, between Baissarieh and Kaakaieh al-Snoubar, in Saida district, southern Lebanon,...
Middle East Airlines (MEA) announced, in a statement on Wednesday, the full resumption of its regular flight schedule starting Dec. 12 2024. A few hours after the cease-fire announcement between...
Despite the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah coming into effect at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the Israeli army continued to hit villages in the border zone with machine-gun fire, artillery and...
The announcement of a 60-day cease-fire in Lebanon has immediately rekindled hopes for a truce in Gaza, following over a year of Israeli military operations in the Palestinian enclave. Just hours...
Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said on Thursday that Israel had violated the cease-fire agreement by firing on civilians returning to their villages along the southern border with Israel. “The...
As was the case for all Lebanese players directly involved in the implementation of the cease-fire agreement between Lebanon and Israel announced on Tuesday evening, the Lebanese Army stood at the...
The Lebanese Army announced on Thursday that several of its units were beginning to carry out various missions in parallel with the increased deployment of troops in the southern Litani sector, as...
As the 417th day of the Israel-Hezbollah war dawned, a U.S. and French-negotiated cease-fire took effect at 4 a.m. local time. The war, triggered by Hezbollah's opening of a southern Lebanon...
Caretaker Education and Higher Education Minister Abbas Halabi revealed on Thursday that 62 Lebanese teachers had been killed in the war in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel. In a statement,...
French president Emmanuel Macron was quick to define Lebanon's postwar political priorities. In a video posted Tuesday on social networks just hours after the cease-fire between Hezbollah and...
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Wednesday setting out the terms of the interim period that will begin on the day his post becomes “vacant,” and which de...
Some people didn't even wait for sunrise before they left. Others, more cautious, waited for the buzzing of the drones to fade away before piling what they’d brought with them when they fled back...
The Lebanese Union of Public Works and Construction Contractors said in a statement issued Thursday morning that “Israeli aggression against Lebanon stops today, under the aegis of the...
Fighting in northern Syria between regime forces and jihadists has killed more than 130, according to a new toll provided Thursday by an NGO, which reports on an offensive launched against...
While the country has been without a President since Oct. 31, 2022, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has set a new session for the election of a president for Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. At the...
The municipality of Khiam (Marjayoun) issued a statement on Thursday morning calling on local residents to wait before returning to their village, and on those in the surrounding area to await...
“I was shocked, I didn't believe it.” The day after the announcement of the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel, Nadia Ghawi’s voice is still trembling.Three years ago, this young engineering...
Lebanon sees a glimmer of hope after more than a year of violence. Amos Hochstein, senior adviser to President Biden and a key figure in negotiating the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah in...
A prolonged war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon had seemed inevitable, but instead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet ultimately approved a cease-fire after two...
The Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, has sent a letter to Hezbollah Secretary General Naim qassem, in which he states that a cease-fire in Lebanon could be...
21:44 Beirut Time In his interview with Israeli Channel 14, discussing a cease-fire in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu also declared: “ I think conditions have changed a lot, and for the...
Syrian rebels in the last opposition enclave in northern Syria launched on Wednesday a wide-scale military operation against the Syrian army and seized territory in the first such advance in...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Lebanon’s Central Security Council meet to...
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
