A U.S. campaign to throttle Iran's economy by blockading its oil exports and stopping sanctions evasion is growing increasingly difficult to withstand, three senior Iranian sources said....
As expected during the Aug. 27 hearing before Beirut investigating judge Sheherazade Nasser, the attorney for former Bank Audi CEO Samir Hanna submitted procedural objections to the magistrate on...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Thursday that the Cabinet would hold several consecutive sessions next week to present and review the draft state budget, and that the issue of granting full-time...
The pharmaceutical sector in Lebanon continues to reveal its abuses and shortcomings. While a case involving six medications was recently investigated by the Court of Cassation’s prosecutor over...
Syria has begun destroying chemical weapon materials identified by an international watchdog, the country's U.N. envoy said Thursday, signaling a major step forward since the 2024 ouster of...
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir set out a plan on Thursday to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and send them abroad. Speaking in the run-up to close-fought...
A team of United Nations investigators called on Iran Thursday to immediately withdraw draft legislation that could lead to decades-long prison sentences for simply communicating with foreign...
The Israeli army has decided to deactivate several armored battalions due to a shortage of spare parts, while "hundreds of military vehicles damaged during fighting in Lebanon remain out of...
Submitted to Cabinet in late August, the preliminary 2027 budget, drafted by the Finance Ministry, has begun circulating over the past 24 hours. One of the measures most likely to spark controversy...
SOUTH LEBANON — Three fragments of lead sarcophagi dating back to the Roman period, which were apparently looted from Sour and illegally exported out of Lebanon, were handed over by the U.S. FBI in...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that U.S. economic sanctions against Iran have proven to be effective, but the pressure might lead Tehran into extreme measures. "We see...
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first official talks on Thursday, with migrant boats, Ukraine, and British-EU relations high on the agenda. The...
Finance Minister Yassine Jaber announced on Aug. 31 that he submitted the draft 2027 budget to the Cabinet. The following day, he wrote on X that the draft would include several “new measures,”...
Thirteen Yemeni government forces were killed on Thursday in clashes with Houthi fighters, a military source told AFP , accusing the group of launching an assault to take areas bordering the key...
Gloria Steinem, the American writer, lecturer, activist, and organizer who fought for gender equality and women's civil and reproductive rights for more than five decades, has died at 92 years...
Throughout August, Ahmad al-Sharaa scored a string of political and diplomatic victories, including the dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which had ruled over the northeast part of...
SOUTH LEBANON — Israel on Thursday claimed its army had established "operational control" over the Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, while releasing one of five prisoners it had...
Iran has warned the United States that it would respond forcefully to an Israeli offensive on Ali Taher hills (Nabatieh district), where Iranian military personnel are reportedly holed up with...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army has decided to deactivate several tank battalions due to a shortage of spare parts, while hundreds of military vehicles damaged during fighting in Lebanon remain out of...
He has an open face, a radiant smile, and a physique that suggests health and well-being. At 37, Rachid Akiki knows what he wants and has managed to combine his different passions and careers,...
Two trucks carrying U.N. food aid for thousands of people in war-ravaged Sudan were destroyed in an aerial attack over the weekend, the World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday, without...
Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank overnight Wednesday to Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. The incident began when a group of Israeli...
The leader of Britain's left-wing Green Party, Zack Polanski, intends to stand in an election for a seat in parliament vacated by former Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, a local newspaper...
U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa broke the deadlock and cleared a major psychological hurdle for the Lebanese by traveling to Israel and meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Israeli strikes never actually stopped after the Gaza cease-fire agreement was reached in October 2025. The yellow line established at the time has continued to shift, expanding the territory...
The Pentagon is "quietly" extending the deployment of U.S. forces in the Middle East, with some troops potentially remaining into 2027, according to a report published Wednesday by The...
22:50 Beirut Time We are now closing our live blog for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 22:12 Beirut Time Israel may have...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Sept. 7, 2026 Some key things to watch today:9:30 a.m.: Workshop on "Partnership in Innovation and Scientific Research for...
Head of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil received a Hezbollah delegation Tuesday at his party’s headquarters in Sin al-Fil, led by the vice president of Hezbollah’s Political Council,...
Iran retaliated to U.S. strikes by attacking U.S. military bases in Kuwait on Thursday, despite President Donald Trump threatening further strikes in a fresh flare-up six months into the U.S. war...
Six commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, down from 11 a day earlier and well below the 10-day average of around 13, preliminary shipping data showed on Thursday. A very...
