SOUTH LEBANON — A pool of blood is still wet on the tiles and the smell of death fills the room. The windows and walls of the Blida municipality buildings have taken dozens of bullets, fired at it...
LONDON — Britain will provide £4 million ($5 million) towards international efforts to clear the estimated 7,500 tonnes of unexploded munitions in Gaza that are preventing aid from reaching...
BEIRUT — The parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee, chaired by MP Ibrahim Kanaan, met Thursday to wrap up its discussion of the 2026 budget draft. The meeting was attended by Finance Minister...
BEIRUT — Fifty-one women-led Lebanese businesses were awarded grants worth thousands of dollars on Thursday, along with tailored support to help them scale their operations locally and abroad. The...
The last functioning hospital in the Sudanese city of al-Fashir was raided and hundreds are feared to have been killed there after a paramilitary force overran the city this week, the World...
ANKARA — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan criticised Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel's "genocide" and attacks in Gaza, at a joint news conference with German...
JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters streamed to Jerusalem on Thursday in a show of force against military conscription, a hot-button issue placing Prime Minister...
Israel's September 2024 exploding pagers attack in Lebanon — in which thousands of rigged handheld communication devices used by Hezbollah were detonated, killing nearly 40 people, including...
Asked about the jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that nobody can trample on laws regardless of their position, and added that the judiciary is...
Cities around the world have their “zones.” Those impenetrable areas deemed dangerous, rife with trafficking, ruled by gangs, unlivable except for those born there who know the codes.These bleak...
Touched by the "great sensitivity" of specific passages, Carole Medawar, professor of French literature at LU — who usually steers clear of historical narratives — ended up staging a...
BEIRUT — A joint committee from the Interior and Foreign Affairs Ministries held its first meeting Thursday at the Interior Ministry. The session, attended by ministers Ahmad Hajjar and Joe...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa received German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Thursday and discussed bilateral ties with Berlin, which welcomed a large number of Syrian refugees during the...
The seventh convoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) voluntary return program, in coordination with Lebanese authorities, set off Thursday morning from Zahle in the Bekaa...
Contrary to what was said before the arrival of U.S. Special Envoy Morgan Ortagus in Lebanon, her meetings with officials went smoothly, in a climate of candor and openness, according to a Lebanese...
The 22-year-old Sacha Morin provided audiences at Les Musicales de Baabdate festival — in collaboration with the Institut Français du Liban — with a grand and magnificent piano on recital on...
Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas in eastern Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian residents and witnesses said, a day after Israel said it remained committed to a U.S.-backed cease-fire despite...
The event "Lebanese Mountain Day" was organized in partnership with the Tourism Ministry in Ehden from Oct. 10 to 12. The day is Lebanon's counterpart to International Mountain Day,...
The wheel turns. The significant weakening of Hezbollah, alongside the legitimization of a Syrian government rooted in Sunni Islamism, brings back into focus a painful episode in Lebanon’s...
BEIRUT — The Israeli attack that took place from Wednesday night to Thursday in Blida, when a patrol infiltrated Lebanese territory and fired at the municipality headquarters, killing an employee...
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is "fully aware of the peaceful nature" of Iran's nuclear programme and should not express "unfounded...
Families hid in trenches, bodies lay in the streets and children were killed in front of their parents as Sudanese paramilitaries advanced into the western city of al-Fasher, survivors told AFP....
If your favorite activities include staring into a space with background noise playing, reading a character-driven book or re-reading your old journals, this week's edition is for you. As...
In a refugee tent in Kousha, northern Lebanon’s Akkar district, a father quietly sips his tea while his 12-year-old daughter, Mais, declares with conviction: “I want to be a teacher.” Mais’s...
SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli army shot dead a municipal worker in the southern Lebanese border town of Blida in the early hours of Thursday morning, after having entered the Marjayoun district...
Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas in eastern Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian residents and witnesses said, a day after Israel said it remained committed to a U.S.-backed cease-fire despite...
“It’s a kidnapping for ransom,” a source close to the case told L’Orient-Le Jour, referring to the $11 million bail set by investigative judge Zaher Hamadeh in the case of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Education Ministry on Wednesday dismissed social media claims that several kindergarten students at Rafic Hariri public school in Aramoun, Mount Lebanon, had been poisoned...
President Joseph Aoun on Thursday instructed the commander of the army to confront any Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon, after Israeli forces crossed the border earlier in the day and killed...
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres called for an immediate end to military escalation in Sudan on Thursday after reports that more than 460 people were shot dead in a maternity hospital by paramilitary...
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, is "fully aware of the peaceful nature" of Iran's nuclear programme, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said...
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it conducted a "targeted" strike in the area of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip targeting an infrastructure site where weapons were stored....
According to our correspondent in South Lebanon, citing witnesses, Israeli soldiers entered Blida around 1 a.m. on Thursday and positioned themselves just a few meters from the municipality...
The remainder of 2025 is shaping up to be a prelude to the challenges Lebanon will face in 2026. Along the southern border, military escalation has been matched by diplomatic deadlock.Hezbollah has...
20:52 Beirut Time UK to send $5 million to help clear unexploded munitions in Gaza Britain will provide £4 million ($5 million) towards international efforts to clear the estimated...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:In South Lebanon, sit-ins are being organized to...
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
