BEIRUT — Caretaker Minister for Displaced Persons Issam Charafeddine on Tuesday voiced his support for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's suggestion that Syrian refugees be permitted to leave...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban issued a new circular on Tuesday limiting banks' ability to increase banking fees and commissions at their own discretion. Circular No. 679 comes a few days after Bank of...
BEIRUT — The American University of Beirut (AUB) denied reports by the La Voix de tout le Liban (VDL News, often confused for VDL, La Voix du Liban) website that university management decided to...
BEIRUT — A motorist accidentally crashed into a Jbeil pharmacy on Tuesday afternoon, injuring two people, eyewitnesses told L'Orient Today. When the driver of a white BMW parked in front of the...
The Foreign Affairs Ministry’s civil servants haven’t been able to collect their salaries, which depend on the signature of the Finance Minister, in months. “We are facing today the worst...
The Beirut Bar Association (BBA) Council elections are scheduled to take place on Nov. 19. The deadline to apply to run in the elections was this Monday at 2 p.m. Fifteen lawyers, 11 of whom are...
BEIRUT — Kataeb party leader Samy Gemayel on Tuesday urged Hezbollah to "withdraw its candidate," Marada Movement leader Sleiman Frangieh, from the Lebanese presidential race. In addition to...
BEIRUT — For years, the Lebanese confidently put their savings in banks. They benefited from high interest rates made possible by Banque du Liban’s years-long financial engineering scheme — one...
Qatar's state-owned energy giant began construction Tuesday on a project to expand production from the world's biggest natural gas field through an export terminal on the Gulf emirate's northeast...
A football match between Saudi and Iranian teams was canceled on Monday night amid a dust-up over a statue of slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Suleimani, a club source told AFP....
BEIRUT — Yvette Hasrouni, the widow of a former Lebanese Forces (LF) official who was found dead in suspicious circumstances in early August in Ain Ibl in southern Lebanon, was killed in a vehicle...
DUBAI — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that countries seeking to normalize relations with Israel "are betting on a losing horse," state media reported on Tuesday....
Food shortages, power cuts and a collapsing currency are upending daily life in Yemen as peace talks make no headway in restoring a cease-fire that lapsed one year ago, around 50 NGOs said late...
State Security agents announced on Tuesday the seizure of a substantial quantity of weapons in the Bekaa Valley city of Zahle. According to a statement released by the state-run National News...
BEIRUT — How has almost the entire $1.139 billion allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) provided to Lebanon by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in September 2021 been spent? This was the...
ISTANBUL — Turkish police detained about 145 people across the country overnight suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), state media reported on Tuesday, two days after a...
An Israeli airstrike wounded two Syrian soldiers near the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. A little before midnight (2100 GMT) on...
Syrian authorities abused and left detainees to die at a Damascus military hospital, using the facility to cover up the torture of prisoners, a rights group and former detainees said....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced the arrest of two alleged members of a human trafficking network that organized...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
