The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, on Monday described the Israeli strike that hit the southern suburbs of Beirut the previous day as "unjustified," considering it a...
Iran's interior minister on Monday blamed "negligence" for a massive explosion that killed 70 people at the country's largest commercial port, with firefighters still battling a blaze at the...
Israel carried out an unprecedented attack on Sunday against Beirut's southern suburbs. Although two earlier strikes had already hit the areas around the capital at the end of March and early April...
The United States announced a new wave of sanctions on Monday, targeting two companies based in Lebanon, specifically in the coastal city of Jounieh. These are Great Success Shipping and ZAAS...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese man tried to verbally expel at least five soldiers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) deployed in the village of Jmaijmeh (Bint Jbeil) because they were not...
The Lebanese Army announced in a statement Monday that it arrested eight people, including seven Lebanese for delinquency, and foiled a clandestine migration attempt of Syrians at sea off the...
It was an unprecedented attack that Israel carried out on Sunday against the southern suburbs of Beirut. True, two strikes had already hit, at the end of March and the beginning of April, the...
BEIRUT — A Spanish TikToker, identified by Internet users as being Israeli, and whose profile, with his name written in Arabic and Hebrew regularly includes the Israeli flag, this week published...
It was a little after 7 p.m. The roads were congested, all radios turned on. Israeli jets just bombarded the southern suburbs of Beirut following several warning shots. On the forecourt of the...
On a sunny Monday morning in Beirut, with a cool, refreshing breeze sweeping through the city, the aftermath of a recent airstrike stood in stark contrast to the peaceful weather. Amid the rubble...
The Ministry of Social Affairs stated on Monday in a press release that financial allocations for April from the assistance program for vulnerable families in Lebanon, "Aman," will be...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the explosion of pagers and the full-scale war against Hezbollah launched in September, reiterating that it was initially supposed to occur a...
Emirati businessman Khalaf al-Habtoor, director of the Al Habtoor Group conglomerate, revealed this weekend an ambitious yet bold project for his iconic hotel in Lebanon, the Metropolitan Beirut:...
BEIRUT — Four days after their latest protest in Beirut, Lebanese military personnel, severely impacted by the country's economic crisis, the Retired Military Movement issued a forceful...
This is only his second post on Facebook since the fall his cousin, Syrian President Bashar Assad, on Dec. 8. And it's a separatist declaration. Rami Makhlouf, once the most powerful...
THE HAGUE — U.N. and Palestinian representatives at the International Court of Justice accused Israel of breaking international law by refusing to let aid into Gaza, on the first day of hearings...
France is asking Israel to "stop the massacre happening today in Gaza," government spokesperson Sophie Primas said Monday. She told the press that Paris is also demanding the release of...
Masters of the Vatican clocks since the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals gathered in Rome have set May 7 as the start date of the conclave, which will elect Pope Francis's successor, the...
After returning from Qatar following a mid-May visit by a delegation from Lebanon’s housing loan institution, Banque de l'Habitat (BDH), CEO Antoine Habib told L’Orient-Le Jour that discussions...
On Nov. 10, 1942, after the victory at El Alamein in Egypt, Winston Churchill cautioned those rushing to proclaim triumph: "This was not the end. It was not even the beginning of the end. But,...
French judges are set to arrive in Lebanon on Monday as part of the investigation into the deadly explosion at the port of Beirut in 2020, a judicial source told AFP. On Aug. 4, 2020, one of the...
President Michel Aoun said Monday that a withdrawal of the Israeli army from the five points still occupied in southern Lebanon is essential for "the state alone" to assume responsibility...
BEIRUT — “No one goes in,” shouts one security guard to his colleague as they try to manage the crowd packed in front of Boghos Exchange, a local gold and silver seller in Burj Hammoud (Matn)....
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam visited the Ministry of the Interior on Monday morning to launch operations for the central unit overseeing municipal elections, set to begin next Sunday in...
The explosion that occurred Saturday in Iran's largest port has now risen to 46 dead, a state media outlet indicated Monday, after a previous toll reported 40 people killed. "The death...
Michael Anton, a conservative intellectual of Lebanese origin, was appointed last Thursday as the head of the U.S. technical team in charge of negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program, on the...
The representative of the State of Palestine stated Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel is using the blockage of humanitarian aid as a "weapon of war" in Gaza....
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Monday denounced the "systematic persecution" of Israel following the opening of a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the...
When she arrives at the meeting, Chloe Chalhoub immediately impresses. Small, thin, almost frail, she nevertheless radiates maturity and a hard-won serenity. Behind her apparent fragility is a...
The Lebanese Forces (LF) strongly criticized comments made Sunday by Hezbollah MP Ali Fayad regarding the party's alleged popularity, reiterating that Lebanon's "sovereignty" must...
The anti-Hezbollah camp is convinced that the era of Syrian-Iranian hegemony over Lebanon is over — after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus on Dec. 8 and the setbacks Hezbollah suffered in...
Iran repelled a large-scale cyberattack against its infrastructure on Sunday, announced the director of the company in charge of telecommunications infrastructure, following a powerful explosion...
The release of Lebanese prisoners captured by Israel during its latest war with Hezbollah is a key condition set by the party for discussing the future of its arsenal. In addition to the withdrawal...
It was 12:10 p.m. local time Saturday, April 26, when a massive explosion rocked Iran. The blast happened at the Shahid Rajaei port on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas, along the Strait of Hormuz. At...
The resumption of war in Gaza has "triggered a new hell" in the Palestinian territory where Israel is at war with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas since its attack on Oct. 7, 2023,...
Houthi rebel media in Yemen claimed on Monday that the death toll from U.S. strikes targeting a migrant detention center in northern Yemen had risen to 68. “The civil defense announced that 68...
Since December 2024, a new Café des Lettres has been operating on the campus of the French Embassy in Beirut. Originally established in the mid-1990s as a social space within the embassy, the café...
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Beginning Sunday morning, visitors will be able to pay their respects at the tomb of Pope Francis, who was buried Saturday in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major following a grand funeral, opening the...
In what he describes as a "potentially more opportune moment" than ever, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Lebanon to "reaffirm its full and entire sovereignty"...
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
