Sharaa in Aleppo a year after offensive
Interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa visited the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, one year after a lightning offensive by his Islamist coalition that led to the fall of former leader Bashar...
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10 Palestinians injured in clashes with settlers, Red Crescent says
The Palestinian Red Crescent said 10 Palestinians were injured Saturday in clashes with Israeli settlers near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. “10 people were injured during settler attacks in...
29 November 2025
Why the Maronite Church missed the sobriety shift urged by Francis
"A poor Church for the poor." From the moment he was elected to the papacy, Jorge Bergoglio sought to emphasize the need to reform the curia and to be closer to the poor and less...
Antoine AJOURY , 29 November 2025
Fire in Haddatha ‘likely’ triggered by explosion of unexploded Israeli ordnance
Multiple incidents involving drones, sound grenades and unexploded ordnance attributed to Israel were reported Saturday in several southern Lebanese towns, including Haddatha, Mais al-Jabal, Rmeish...
29 November 2025
Trump: Venezuelan airspace should be considered 'entirely closed'
U.S. President Donald Trump warned Saturday that airspace over and around Venezuela should be considered “entirely closed,” amid his escalating confrontation with leftist leader Nicolás Maduro....
29 November 2025
Geagea: Risk of a new war in Lebanon is ‘very high’
The leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, says the risk of a new Israeli airstrike campaign in Lebanon is “very high,” according to an interview he gave to the French daily Le...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 November 2025
Mount Lebanon governor bans paragliding during pope’s visit
The governor of Mount Lebanon has banned paragliding in the governorate for the duration of Pope Leo XIV’s visit, the state-run National News Agency reported Saturday. Governor Mohammad Makkawi...
29 November 2025
Pope meets Lebanon
Bernard Hage, 29 November 2025
How to finally write the (Lebanon-)message?
Pope Leo XIV's three-day visit to Lebanon comes at a difficult moment for the country, which stands more than ever at a crossroads between entirely opposite paths — and still cannot decide...
Élie FAYAD, 29 November 2025
Michel Issa: Disarming Hezbollah is essential for peace in Lebanon and the region
The new U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Lebanese-born businessman Michel Issa, told Haaretz in an interview published Saturday that Washington is pressing for the disarmament of Hezbollah and other...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 November 2025
Hezbollah appeals to pope to oppose ‘injustice Lebanon faces from Israeli aggression’
Hezbollah on Saturday welcomed the visit of Pope Leo XIV to Lebanon, set to begin the following day, and sent him a letter urging him to “take positions that reject the injustice and attacks”...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 November 2025
Lebanon demands $1 billion from illegal stone quarries
Leaked Finance Ministry documents show it received two letters last week from the Environment Ministry listing 427 recovery orders tied to illegal stone quarrying.The Environment Ministry states...
Mounir YOUNES, 29 November 2025
Israel escalates strikes in southern Syria
This was a response the Israeli army did not anticipate. Early on Friday morning, at around 3:40 a.m., its troops launched an incursion into the village of Beit Jinn, at the far south of the...
Amélie ZACCOUR, 29 November 2025
Pope Leo XIV visits Istanbul’s Blue Mosque
Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Saturday, the city’s emblematic landmark and a major Ottoman monument. He was given an overview of its history but, unlike his predecessor Francis,...
29 November 2025
US starts construction of supervised residential compounds in Gaza
This is the latest idea from the Trump administration. The U.S. president has appointed former U.S. ambassador to Israel and current director of the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, Aryeh...
Tatiana KROTOFF, 29 November 2025
Sexual assault: The Eastern Catholic Church’s blind spot
The subject is still treated as an absolute taboo, a Pandora’s box the Eastern Churches have shown little readiness to open.In Lebanon, Eastern ecclesiastical institutions have never released an...
Caroline HAYEK, 29 November 2025
Airbus calls for urgent software change; MEA says it’s taken action
Some 6,000 Airbus A320 aircraft must urgently replace flight-control software vulnerable to solar radiation following an “event” in the United States involving a JetBlue plane in late October, a...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 November 2025
A year after the liberation of Aleppo, thousands of Syrians rally for unity
“This isn’t a photo from 2011 — it’s today.” Online, images from Syrian cities poured in on Friday, early in the afternoon. One year to the day after Aleppo’s liberation, thousands of Syrians...
Ahmad ROUMI, Clara HAGE, Stephanie KHOURI, reporting from Aleppo, Syria., 29 November 2025
Maritime agreement with Cyprus: Why the text is controversial
Nearly 20 years in the making, the agreement signed Wednesday in Baabda between President Joseph Aoun and his Cypriot counterpart, Nikos Christodoulides, on the delimitation of the maritime border,...
