BEIRUT — Banque du Liban's governor, Riad Salameh, confirmed on Tuesday an earlier decision that the Lebanese lira's official rate against the dollar will rise from LL1,507.5 to LL15,000 as of...
BEIRUT — The price of electricity again rose in January in accordance with a drop in the value of the Lebanese lira against the dollar on the parallel market, according to prices published by the...
BEIRUT — The French-donated buses that briefly made an appearance on the streets of the capital have stopped rolling, multiple sources confirm. Indeed, they have been stopped since last week,...
BEIRUT — The head of the Progressive Socialist Party Walid Joumblatt on Tuesday said from Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's Ain al-Tineh residence that during a meeting the pair endeavored to "break...
One of the world's biggest solar plants will become fully operational this year in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, months before it hosts UN climate talks, a partner company said Tuesday....
BEIRUT — For over a year now, Lebanese people have been accustomed to dealing with Banque du Liban's (BDL) Sayrafa rate. BDL, in an attempt to inject fresh dollars into the market, allows...
WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday added seven Iranian entities to its trade blacklist for producing drones that Russia has used to attack Ukraine, according a posting by the US Department...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday lamented the killing of "innocent Palestinian civilians" during a surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence over the past year. After meeting...
An unprecedented war between the two judges has brought Lebanon’s judicial system, which has been long hit by economic hardships and political interference, to a virtual standstill. Judge Tarek...
An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran's main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime,...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Internal Security Forces claimed Tuesday that they stopped a woman leaving Lebanon to Ethiopia at Beirut's airport over the weekend after they found her carrying "$117,200 and...
“A lackluster play.”Independent Zgharta MP Michel Moawad did not thin words when describing the election of Lebanon's next president—a process that has been blocked since late September due to a...
BEIRUT — Lebanese army chief Gen. Joseph Aoun is "in the lead" among candidates for president, Progressive Socialist Party MP Ragy El Saad (Aley) said on Tuesday during a visit to Maronite...
BEIRUT — After a long wait for the season's first heavy snowfall, Lebanon's mountains, especially in the north, were covered in snow on Tuesday, L'Orient Today 's correspondent there reported....
Instrumentalized and absorbed by the political, financial and clerical classes, the five “powers” that govern and feed the Lebanese corruptocracy are all geographically concentrated and...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Tuesday that cabinet is expected to convene "this week or early next week at the latest" to discuss "many emergency files," including...
Three alleged al-Qaeda militants were killed in a suspected US drone strike in northeastern Yemen on Monday, local government officials said. The attack was carried out on...
An aide to Sunni Muslim cleric Molavi Abdol Hamid, an influential leader of Iran's ethnic Baluchi minority, was arrested in the restive southeastern city of Zahedan late Monday, state media...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon increased according to new tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry Tuesday morning. The high volatility of the Lebanese lira last week, which briefly reached a...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Amal Movement MPs and former ministers MPs Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zeaiter filed renewed complaints against port blast...
BEIRUT — Fifteen members of Syrian government internal security forces were injured on Monday when an explosive device detonated as they were traveling on a bus in the southern region of Daraa, the...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to meet Palestinian leaders Tuesday for his final stop on a Middle East tour aimed at curbing the worst outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence in...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
