BEIRUT – Lebanon’s balance of payment (BOP) for August 2024 — the amount of money flowing into the country versus the amount flowing out — recorded a surplus of around $5.1 billion compared to a...
With only weeks remaining before handing over the White House to Donald Trump on Jan. 20, Biden is intensifying efforts to secure diplomatic achievements and leave behind a more peaceful legacy in...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Minister of Defense Maurice Slim referred to the Cabinet a draft decree requesting a treasury advance of 113 billion and 250 million Lebanese pounds (around $1.26 million) to...
Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib met Friday with Qatar's ambassador, Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, who conveyed Doha's support for the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel...
Israel carried out several attacks on targets in Lebanon over the past two days, despite its cease-fire agreement with Hezbollah. These attacks, which raised doubts about the solidity of the...
While a cease-fire takes hold in Lebanon, a major offensive launched by jihadist groups and rebels in northwestern Syria has left over 200 fighters dead and threatens to destabilize the region.This...
BEIRUT — An Israeli force, consisting of four tanks and two bulldozers, entered one of the western neighborhoods of the town of Khiam, in Marjayoun district, early afternoon on Friday. The Israeli...
Among the reasons cited Tuesday for agreeing to a cease-fire in Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted the need to “give our forces some respite.” Israeli troops have shown...
BEIRUT — Committees will be formed in Baalbeck to survey damage from Israeli attacks, Mayor Mustafa al-Shel said during a press conference held in the north-eastern Lebanese city on Friday. Shel...
In a press release issued Wednesday morning, just hours after the cease-fire came into effect in Lebanon, the French Foreign Affairs Ministry reconsidered its position on the arrest warrant issued...
On Thursday, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri convened Parliament at Nejmeh Square to approve the much-anticipated second extension of the mandate for the army’s commander in chief Joseph Aoun....
The attachment that its popular base exhibited despite the pressure and losses it has incurred, constitutes a flagrant failure for the Israelis and their plan to diminish as much as possible...
On Tuesday afternoon, on the eve of the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel, the apartment of Hezbollah MP Amine Cherri's family in Burj Abi Haidar was bombed amid a frenzy of Israeli strikes...
BEIRUT — Seven men from Akkar, in northern Lebanon, who were kidnapped and taken to Syria under the promise they would be smuggled to Europe, were freed on Friday after negotiations between...
Did Wafic Safa recently visit the Rawdat al-Shahidain cemetery in Beirut's southern suburbs, as suggested by photos that circulated on social networks this week? Two widely shared photos of the...
A few people walked through downtown Marjayoun on Thursday, Nov. 28. Most shops were closed. Only a small grocery store remained open. Every 10 minutes, Lebanese Army vehicles arrived at the...
BEIRUT — Returning home in the early hours of the cease-fire, residents of Beirut's southern suburbs risk coming face-to-face with all kinds of loss, chief among them the destruction of their homes...
On the eve of the cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon, which began Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted his military’s tactical successes and vowed that Tel Aviv would...
BEIRUT — Several airlines are considering following the example of Royal Jordanian and Ethiopian Airlines to resume their Beirut services, according to information circulating among travel...
At 7 a.m. on Friday morning, the Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson declared in a post on his X account that residents of 10 villages along the border in southern Lebanon were "prohibited"...
21:36 Beirut Time According to our correspondent in southern Lebanon, Israeli aircraft are flying over the region, in particular over Iqlim al-Touffah (Nabatieh district) and drones are...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Nov. 29, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• On the third day of the cease-fire between...
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
