According to the Public Health Ministry's emergency operations center, quoted by the National News Agency, the provisional death toll from the Israeli raid on the locality of Sarafand, in the Saida...
This week, a delegation from the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) is expected to meet with the Lebanese Army’s commander-in-chief, Joseph Aoun, to discuss concerns about Lebanon’s internal security....
The appointment on Tuesday of Naim Qassem as head of Hezbollah will “strengthen the resistance” to Israel, said Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, quoted by AFP. “I am convinced that the...
The death toll from Israeli army strikes on the Gaza Strip has once again been revised upwards, according to local medical sources quoted by Al Jazeera. At least 143 people were killed as a result...
According to the daily toll published by the Lebanese Health Ministry, 77 people were killed and 180 wounded on Monday. This brings the toll of Israeli aggression against Lebanon since the start of...
A senior Hamas official said on Tuesday that the Palestinian militant group was studying new proposals from mediators to end the war in Gaza, while reiterating that these proposals must involve a...
Israel's Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, has warned Tehran not to retaliate against the Israeli air force's attack on military sites in Iran on Saturday. “If Iran makes the mistake of launching...
An Israeli strike on Haret Saida has killed at least seven people, according to information gathered by our correspondent Mountasser Abdallah, who also reports 20 injured. The air raid, launched...
“The United States rejects any Israeli attempt to starve Palestinians in Gaza,” U.S. envoy to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Tuesday, adding...
UNIFIL said the rocket fired earlier at its Naqoura headquarters, causing eight light injuries, was sent “from the north.” “This afternoon, a rocket hit the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, setting...
Naim Qassem, the fourth secretary-general of Hezbollah. On Tuesday, the party announced that Qassem, previously the party's deputy leader, has been appointed as its leader, succeeding Hassan...
Israeli bombardment on Monday destroyed two juxtaposed walls in the historic town of Baalbeck, one dating back to the French Mandate and known as Gouraud, after General Henri Gouraud, and the other...
Like the entire Lebanese sporting movement, the OMT Beirut Marathon has been affected by the ongoing war in Lebanon that has reached the heart of the capital. Originally scheduled for Nov. 10, the...
Gaza's civil defense agency said Tuesday that an overnight Israeli air strike killed 93 people in a residential building in the northern district of Beit Lahia. "The number...
Israel passed a law on Monday banning the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA from operating in the country, legislation that could impact its work in war-torn Gaza.On Jan. 26, several countries...
Caretaker Defense Minister Maurice Slim signed a decree appointing the 200 candidates who passed the entrance exams to the Military Academy as officer cadets of the army, the General Directorate of...
To the two-bedroom apartment I found some months ago,You don’t quite feel like home yet. Maybe it’s the long office hours, maybe my fear of attachment, or my gravitation toward minimalism — but I’m...
An Israeli strike targeted an area near the home of Abdallah Berri, son of Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, in Tebnine in south Lebanon on Monday evening, an official within the Amal Movement...
Since Oct. 7, 2023, approximately 12,000 Israeli soldiers have been injured and the number of patients in rehabilitation wards has increased by approximately 20 percent to 74,000 people, according...
BEIRUT — Contact has been lost with several families in Khiam (Marjayoun) after Israel's attempted incursion into the town Monday and its shelling of residential neighborhoods in the afternoon,...
According to the American news site Axios, CIA Director Bill Burns discussed a new formula for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage deal during a meeting Sunday with his Israeli and Qatari counterparts....
“My Lord, I stand at your door, hands extended. Who but You, my unwavering refuge, can I turn to?” From these lines in a religious poem sung by Sheikh Naqshabandy, Serene Ghandour drew the theme...
It was May 7, 2008. Hezbollah and its allies stormed West Beirut, forcing the government of then-Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to reverse decisions, notably regarding the party’s telecommunications...
In this episode of Testimonies from Beirut, we hand our microphone to a 77-year-old lady. Originally from Achrafieh, she looks back on the years of Civil War that Lebanon has known and compares...
Hezbollah announced Tuesday it chose deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hassan Nasrallah as leader after his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month....
The image is provocative: Helmet on, bulletproof vest strapped tight, dark sunglasses shielding his gaze as he surveys the ruins, Danny Kushmaro sits atop a chair balanced on the rubble of a...
Global business leaders meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a glitzy investor forum as conflict shakes the region and skepticism mounts over the Gulf kingdom's most ambitious development projects....
The prices of gasoline, diesel and heating oil fell slightly on Tuesday, according to the new price list published by the Ministry of Energy and Water. However, the price of a domestic gas cylinder...
23:09 Beirut Time The death toll from the Israeli strike on the village of Sarafand now stands at at least 10 people , “mainly women and children,” according to the president of the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Diplomatic reaction to Axios report that...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 1 p.m.: A plane from Pakistan arrives at Beirut...
Israel passed a law on Monday banning the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA from operating in the country, legislation that could impact its work in war-torn Gaza. The...
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?
