The Palestinian Authority will "under no circumstances" take part in governing the Gaza Strip after the war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff during...
Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, the son of Libya's deposed longtime ruler, has died, Libyan media reported on Tuesday, without providing details on his death. TV channel al-Ahrar said people close to...
Iran is demanding that talks with the U.S. this week be held in Oman not Turkey, and that the scope be narrowed to two-way talks on nuclear issues only, a regional source said on Tuesday, casting...
BEIRUT — Four landscape-shaped color images are suspended from wires. Their glossy black surfaces capture clusters of light.They might be photos of hot coals in a brazier, or clouds of gas and dust...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Rodolph Haykal arrived in Washington on Monday for a three-day visit during which he is expected to meet with U.S. officials and lawmakers to discuss Lebanon’s...
The Green Southerners NGO, one of the most active in South Lebanon, on Tuesday condemned the spraying by Israeli aircraft of an as-yet unidentified chemical over several villages in South Lebanon,...
BEIRUT — Energy Minister Joe Saddi requested last Friday a judicial investigation before the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Cassation against engineer Fawzi Meshleb, accusing him of "attempting...
A U.S. stealth aircraft shot down an Iranian drone that approached a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday, but talks scheduled for later this week between the two countries remain on...
A giant man steps up to the stand, surrounded by five soldiers. He suddenly seems small. He no longer bears the confident face seen in the few old photographs that exist of him. Pale, almost ashen,...
Iranian authorities have recently stepped up arrests and false accusations against the Baha'i community, which representatives of the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority said is...
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) stated that the Israeli army dropped a stun grenade about 50 meters away from its peacekeepers in the village of Kfar Kila (Marjayoun district) this...
Somaliland expects to reach a trade agreement soon with Israel, the first country to recognize its independence, and is willing to offer rights to valuable mineral deposits as part of a deal, its...
Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar on Tuesday issued a circular setting the deadlines for submitting and withdrawing candidacies for the legislative elections scheduled for Sunday, May 10, 2026, in...
The Lebanese Ministry of Health, in partnership with UNICEF, has announced that Marjayoun Governmental Hospital, Ain Wa Zein Medical Hospital, and Rassoul al-Aazam Hospital have been recognized as...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to meet U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday amid efforts to revive diplomacy over a long-running dispute about Iran's nuclear...
The Arab world will have to get used to a new face. Commander Ella Waweya of the Israeli army, who calls herself “Captain Ella” on her social media, was appointed on Tuesday to replace Avichay...
The sharpness of the rhetoric reflects Riyadh’s deep sense of grievance: the United Arab Emirates (UAE) “betrays God, His Prophet, and the entire Muslim community,” wrote an article in the Saudi...
What remains of cinema when territories disappear, images fragment, and the archives themselves become battlefields? From Feb. 6 to 14, Metropolis is devoting the second edition of The Second...
British maritime security firm Vanguard Tech said Tuesday that a U.S.-flagged tanker was approached and challenged by Iranian gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz, before continuing on its way. The...
The League of Contract Teachers in Lebanon’s basic public education sector (CTLP) on Tuesday presented a bill seeking to grant permanent status to contract teachers in the public basic education...
President Joseph Aoun affirmed on Tuesday his "determination" to hold the parliamentary elections "starting from May 3," according to a post by the Lebanese presidency on X....
Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem accused "certain ministers of dragging Lebanon into discord" on Tuesday, asserting that "nothing more can be demanded of Lebanon" and...
"What is Lebanon's national motto?" Sitting in front of their screens, a dozen students at the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais in Beirut pose this question to an artificial intelligence...
The Lebanese drug trafficker Nouh Zeaiter was sentenced Tuesday by the military court to four months in prison, along with the confiscation of all weapons, military equipment, and wireless...
The Lebanese University (LU) has set March 27 as the date for student elections, according to a statement issued by the state-run National News Agency (NNA) . "Student elections will be held...
Laws passed. Reforms announced. Results showcased — or quietly shelved. But there’s another barometer, less official and often more revealing: perception and affection. To mark the Cabinet's...
A convoy of Syrian government security forces moved towards the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli in the northeast on Tuesday, Syrian security sources said, continuing the implementation of a...
The 2026 budget law, which was passed last Thursday after a three-day heated debate, could soon be outdated, as social pressure over public sector salaries and last-minute political promises risk...
The Lebanese Ministry of Health and the Lebanese Order of Pharmacists assured L’Orient-Le Jour that no potentially at-risk batches of infant formula had been imported to Lebanon or are in...
A work by Saudi artist Safeya Binzagr set a new record Saturday in Diriyah, northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her painting "Coffee Shop in Madina Road" (1968) sold for $2.06 million...
The Lebanese startup HAQQ Legal AI , which specializes in developing an artificial intelligence (AI) based operating system, announced today that it has raised $3 million to "accelerate the...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro meet at the White House for the first time on Tuesday, an encounter that will test whether the two leaders can reach a lasting...
How can Lebanon still sustain a cultural life amid ongoing war, financial collapse, systemic corruption, and geopolitical instability, marked by the absence of governance and a public space...
$500M, a quiet deal, four days before the second inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2025. At the signing, a royal figure from the United Arab Emirates transfers the colossal...
The World Health Organization is appealing for $1 billion for health emergencies this year, down by a third from last year, as donor funding falls and amid doubts about contributions from its...
A handful of injured Palestinians and their companions entered Egypt from Gaza on Monday, the first day of a limited reopening of the Rafah border crossing, a source on the Egyptian side of the...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday that he will not allow Lebanon to be dragged into a new conflict, according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA) . Hezbollah had recently...
It was Feb. 11, 1979. Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran, welcomed by millions of people in a euphoric crowd. A few weeks later, on April 1, the Islamic Republic was established following a...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met on Tuesday with the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jassem al-Budaiwi, on the sidelines of his participation in the World Governments...
The change was meant to be discreet. On Friday, Jan. 30, Abu Dhabi announced that its ADQ fund, weighing in at over $260 billion, would come under the control of L’IMAD. Recently established, this...
U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in former U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an...
20:30 Beirut Time Drone shot down: US-Iran talks 'remain scheduled,' White House says Planned talks between U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian officials remain scheduled for...
The American bank J.P. Morgan said it expects the price of gold to reach $6,300 per ounce by the end of 2026, driven by sustained demand from central banks around the world, according to Reuters ....
Iran and the United States will resume nuclear talks on Friday in Turkey, Iranian and U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, while a regional diplomat said representatives from countries such as...
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
