TEL AVIV — Israeli soldiers ignored cries for "help" when they stormed a Gaza building holding three hostages just days before killing them by mistake, said a military investigation published on...
OSLO — Norway's largest pension fund said Thursday it has divested from Saudi Aramco due to the oil giant's lack of climate action and from 11 other Gulf companies over human rights concerns....
BEIRUT — A UN peacekeeper in southern Lebanon was hurt when a group of young men attacked a patrol and tried to stop it from moving through their village, the UN mission said on Thursday, cited by...
TEL AVIV — Israel has given preliminary approval to Cyprus for a maritime humanitarian corridor to ship aid to the besieged and war-torn Gaza Strip, the foreign ministry said on Thursday....
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army found on Thursday the body of an Iraqi citizen in Bqaatouta, Keserwan district, according to a statement released by the army. “On Dec. 28, the Intelligence Directorate,...
Mehr News Agency, the semi-official Iranian news agency, quoted on Wednesday morning IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif that Hamas’s Oct. 7 bloody attack was “one of the acts of revenge for the...
Since the start of the Oct. 7 Hamas-Israel war, communities in southern Lebanon and northern Israel have witnessed near daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army. Over the...
Dear readers, 2023 was a tough year for Lebanon, again. And it’s easy to get caught up in the news and feel depressed about the state of the country. Yet there are some stories that can give...
A total of 21,320 Palestinians have been killed and 55,603 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct.7, Gaza health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra said on Thursday....
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) found the dead body of an Iraqi tourist who had been missing for ten days in Bqaatouta, Keserwan, state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday....
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday he supported Iraq's "sovereignty and stability" during a visit to Baghdad, where he also met with Spanish troops. "My...
BEIRUT — All passengers trapped in a Jounieh cable car, in Keserouan district, north of Beirut, were eventually rescued by the Civil Defense, the Red Cross, and the Lebanese Army on Thursday,...
The intensity of strikes between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, and Israeli threats to eliminate the party's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, rekindled fears of a...
Egypt and Qatar continue to make efforts for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and to propose political solutions for the management of the enclave once the Israeli operation is over. While Israeli...
“We are totally ready to commit to the implementation of international resolutions, provided that the Israeli side does the same.” On Friday, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati expressed the...
Fifty Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza's Beit Lahia, Khan Younis and Maghazi areas on Thursday, the Gaza health ministry said.
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man during an overnight raid on Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, the territory's health ministry said Thursday....
A United Nations report issued Thursday said the human rights situation in the occupied West Bank was rapidly deteriorating and urged Israel to "end unlawful killings" against the Palestinian...
The Israeli embassy in South Korea has removed a video showing an imaginary scenario in which Koreans are attacked by masked assailants in Seoul, a reference to Hamas, Seoul's foreign ministry said...
Israeli forces pressed on with intensified attacks in the Gaza Strip's biggest southern city and a central refugee camp, after the territory's Hamas-run health ministry reported more than 21,000...
French President Emmanuel Macron demanded a "lasting cease-fire" in Gaza during a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, his office said, as an escalating humanitarian...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei led prayers on Thursday at the funeral of Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) adviser killed in what Iran said was an Israeli air strike...
The population of Gaza is in "grave peril", the head of the World Health Organization warned Wednesday, citing acute hunger and desperation throughout the war-torn Palestinian territory....
Iman al-Masry is simply exhausted after giving birth to quadruplets in a hospital in southern Gaza, miles away from her home in the north of the war-torn Palestinian territory....
23:09 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage from day 83 of the Hamas-Israel war. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis, right here at L'Orient...
Here’s what happened yesterday and what to expect today, Thursday, Dec. 28 Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 82 of...
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