BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met Thursday in Cairo with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayeb, and invited him to visit Lebanon before the end of the year, according to a...
SOUTH LEBANON — Israeli airstrikes hit southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon, targeting several areas in the Jezzine district, north of the Litani River, according to our correspondent....
BEIRUT — Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa affirmed in an interview with the Kuwaiti daily al-Jarida the Lebanese Army's commitment to implementing the government's decision on the...
The Lebanese channel Al-Jadeed published a statement denying that it had released any information concerning the health condition of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam. Social media users shared on the...
For the second night in a row, Israeli fire struck the al-Kiswah region, about 20 kilometers south of Damascus. On Tuesday, Aug. 26, Israel launched a series of drone strikes on a Syrian military...
Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday called on the government to begin annexing parts of the Gaza Strip if Palestinian militant group Hamas stands by its refusal to lay down...
Israel is "right now" holding talks to establish a demilitarized zone in southern Syria and a humanitarian corridor to a Druze town in that region, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said...
More than 800 Iraqis left the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria on Thursday, where about 27,000 people are held, including members of families of suspected jihadists, according to the director of...
BEIRUT — U.N. Security Council renews UNIFIL mandate for final time, setting terms for full withdrawal by end of 2027 The United Nations Security Council on Thursday adopted a resolution to extend...
BEIRUT — Civil Defense said in a statement that its rescuers from the Bashura center retrieved on Thursday the body of a man in his sixties floating in the waters off the port of Beirut. "The...
Despite the challenges posed by the war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon’s agricultural sector returned to growth in 2024, recording total revenue of $2.18 billion, a 13 percent increase,...
Iran has promised a response to the decision, which it called "unjustified and illegal," by Paris, London, and Berlin to trigger on Thursday the mechanism allowing for the reimposition of...
BEIRUT — Another paraglider was injured after a fall during a flight in Jbeil, according to information confirmed to L’Orient Today by two industry professionals who requested anonymity. A video...
SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli air force carried out a series of strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon, targeting several areas in the Jezzine district, north of the Litani River, our...
Yemen's Houthi rebels said Israel attacked the capital Sanaa on Thursday, four days after a round of deadly bombings against the Iran-backed group. "Israeli aggression on the capital...
On late summer nights, when the sea air drifts through the old stones of Jbeil, stories rise like the tide. This year, for the first time, those stories will flicker across a screen under the open...
BEIRUT — President Donald Trump presided over a meeting Wednesday on Israel's war in Gaza and postwar plans for the Palestinian territory, attended by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair...
Once again, the state yields to the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL). This time, the issue is fiscal: a proposed 17 percent tax on the provisions (or reserves) set aside by banks to absorb...
BEIRUT — Britain, France and Germany on Thursday launched a 30-day process that would lead to the reimposition of U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, according to a letter sent to...
BEIRUT — The Burj al-Barajneh camp — one of 12 formal Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon — located in Beirut's southern suburbs, became the stage on Aug. 21 for the government's first step to...
A Syrian state media outlet claimed Thursday that the Israeli army carried out an airborne operation Wednesday night in an area south of Damascus that it had previously bombed. Israel, which...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone Thursday about the expected U.N. Security Council vote to renew the UNIFIL mandate for one year,...
U.N. rights experts voiced alarm Thursday at reports of "enforced disappearances" of starving Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam visited the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayeb, in Cairo on Thursday, and invited him to visit Lebanon before the end of the year, according to a statement...
BEIRUT — On paper, Lebanon appeared to be gradually finding its footing again. A series of long-awaited reforms, from the adoption of the bank secrecy law to the bank restructuring law, had finally...
NORTH LEBANON — Hundreds of Syrian refugees, who fled to Lebanon after the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, are trying to return to Syria, taking advantage of Lebanese facilities set by the...
The Palestinian factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), including Fatah led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, present in the refugee camps of Rashidieh, Burj...
Celebrating resilience, joy and solidarity through film: that’s the aim of Here & Elsewhere (D’ici et d’ailleurs), a new international short film festival to be held in early October in Beirut....
Art is everywhere around us, even in the faces we make at ourselves in the mirror and in the buildings we pass between every night on our way home. Our exhibitions this week dive into what we see...
BEIRUT — The Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization called in a statement published on Thursday for the immediate release of the son of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal Gaddafi,...
Amid the surge in Israeli operations in the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, this episode might have gone unnoticed had it not taken place in Ramallah. On Tuesday, Aug. 26, the Israeli army launched...
Israel's military said it intercepted a drone launched from Yemen on Thursday, after sirens sounded in communities near the Gaza Strip. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the drone,...
Sweden and the Netherlands have urged the EU to adopt sanctions on Israel and Hamas over the war in Gaza, including suspending the EU-Israel trade deal, according to a document seen by AFP on...
The head of the U.N.'s World Food Program warned Thursday that famine-hit Gaza is "at breaking point," appealing for the urgent revival of its network of 200 food distribution points....
Between January and May 2025, the Internal Security Forces recorded 162 road fatalities in Lebanon. In 2024, 443 lives were lost, compared to 439 in 2023. Drunk driving, phones, poor road and...
At the heart of this idea lies “entropy,” one of science’s most misunderstood yet powerful concepts. In physics, entropy is the measure of disorder or randomness in a system. It's the natural...
Syria wants “state-to-state relations with Lebanon” and has made “concessions” regarding the wounds inflicted by Hezbollah, President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Sunday during a 20-minute briefing to the...
BEIRUT — In snippets of an interview with social media personality Mario Nawfal, a day after his departure from Lebanon, U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack nuanced on Thursday the statement in which he...
BEIRUT — A veteran Australian lawmaker threatened a television journalist at a press conference on immigration on Thursday, shaking his fist and saying he had previously punched people for...
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening denied media reports that Israel had considered returning the Shebaa Farms — a disputed territory between Lebanon,...
The most hardline voice within the Syrian Druze community is expanding his influence in the Sweida stronghold. On Monday, one of the most influential sheikhs, Hikmat al-Hijri, went so far as to...
New video footage reveals that the second salvo of strikes by the Israeli army on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday actually consisted of two consecutive shots, CNN reported Thursday,...
Why did the Beirut Indictement Chamber, chaired on an interim basis by Nassib Elia, decide to release former Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on a $20 million bail, only eight days before the...
The return of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to Iran does not mark a full resumption of cooperation on Tehran's nuclear program, which was suspended in July, Iran's...
The Lebanese scene was weighed down Wednesday by explicit American positions — the clearest being that expressed by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who said Israel would not withdraw from southern...
MP Hagop Terzian (Tachnag) submitted last Wednesday a bill aiming to criminalize moral harassment (bullying). The project, which must be reviewed in a parliamentary committee before being submitted...
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote Thursday on a final extension of the peacekeeping force mandate in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) and its withdrawal in 2027, a sensitive vote under pressure...
22:03 Beirut Time That’s all from us for today — thanks for following. We’ll be back tomorrow with more live updates from the Middle East. See you then. 22:02 Beirut Time...
"We want to know who insulted Imam al-Mahdi during the 2019 protest." That was all it took for Mohammad Barakat, a journalist fiercely opposed to Hezbollah, to once again find himself in...
The press room of the Baabda Palace was bursting at the seams. U.S. senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lindsay Graham had just stepped away from the podium after their meeting with President Joseph Aoun...
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?
