An Iranian Woman Grandmaster who competed at an international chess event without the mandatory hijab was not representing the Islamic republic, a local federation official said Wednesday....
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday received Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the accompanying delegation at the Grand Serail, with Mikati assuring that...
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu will pursue a policy of increased settlement expansion in the West Bank, his Likud party said Wednesday, as he prepared to unveil his new...
The defense ministers of Russia, Turkey and Syria met in Moscow on Wednesday, the first such talks since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, the Russian defence ministry said. Russia and...
“We will not take a vacation [for the end-of-year holidays],” Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil said from Bkirki, the seat of the Maronite Church, on Sunday. “We will work [to make...
A Turkish appellate court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a leading critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose jailing has added to tensions in Ankara's uneasy ties with the West....
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Ministry of Health on Wednesday ordered the withdrawal of a contaminated batch of cancer drugs that were smuggled into the country after the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Tunisian prosecutors asked the top judicial body to strip 13 judges of immunity so they can be tried on terror charges, their lawyer said Wednesday, describing the case as "purely political."...
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday said it had seized nearly 30 tons of the mildly narcotic shrub khat this month, as part of a larger drug crackdown by the oil-rich kingdom. Khat,...
BEIRUT — After turbulent changes in the value of the Lebanese lira on the parallel market in recent days, is a new gas crisis looming? On Wednesday morning, fuel prices recorded a sharp drop,...
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has named former general Yoav Galant as defense minister in his upcoming cabinet, a spokesperson for his Likud party said Wednesday. Galant, a...
The lira-to-dollar exchange rate saw a new phase of strong fluctuations on the first working day following the long Christmas weekend, which marked a holiday for bank employees — including Banque...
Kuwait, one of the hottest countries on Earth, has been hit by a rare hail storm that delighted children and their parents, with images of the winter white shared widely on social media...
BEIRUT — Unidentified people fired bullets at the Al Jadeed television station headquarters in Beirut Tuesday night, the channel said Wednesday, a day after someone also threw a failed Molotov...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu finalized coalition deals with allied parties, their spokespeople said on Wednesday, in final steps toward his political comeback at the head...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon dropped by about 18 percent on Wednesday morning, according to the latest tariffs announced by The Energy Ministry. These prices come as the Lebanese lira is highly...
With foreign workers making up the vast bulk of private sector jobs in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf's second-largest economy wants to boost opportunities for its own citizens....
BEIRUT — A six-year-old child, missing since Tuesday, was found dead on Wednesday after drowning in a pond near his family home in the village of Safinat al-Kaytah, in Akkar, North Lebanon,...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . A European judiciary delegation is scheduled to visit Lebanon to continue a probe into suspected corruption and money...
BEIRUT — Lebanon recorded on Tuesday no new cholera cases or additional deaths in the previous 24 hours, the Health Ministry said in its daily report. The total number of confirmed cases since the...
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest the "unacceptable" response to women-led protests in the Islamic republic, his office said Tuesday....
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
