What L'Orient-Le Jour has learnedAs the drums of war beat between the United States and Iran, international diplomatic activity is accelerating. Several countries have now gotten...
Iran's top security official said Saturday that progress had been made towards negotiations with the United States, even as the Islamic republic's army chief warned Washington against...
Qatar on Saturday condemned the ‘repeated Israeli violations” of the cease-fire in Gaza following deadly strikes by the Israeli army on the Palestinian territory, the foreign ministry said in a...
Israeli airstrikes killed 32 people on Saturday, most of them women and children, Gaza’s Civil Defense said, as tensions remained high in the Gaza Strip despite a fragile cease-fire. Israel said...
The Israeli army continued its strikes on Lebanese territory Sunday, killing a man and injuring several others, including a teenager, in the Nabatieh and Saida districts of southern Lebanon....
Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman said U.S. President Donald Trump “should take military action” against Iran or risk “strengthening the regime,” during a private meeting in...
Egypt on Saturday urged all sides to exercise “maximum restraint” on the eve of the scheduled reopening of the Rafah border crossing and condemned “in the strongest terms” new Israeli airstrikes on...
The leader of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement, lawmaker Gebran Bassil, criticized ongoing negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, saying Beirut is making excessive “concessions” and calling for...
On the night before the army chief’s trip to the United States, everyone is focused on the second phase of the army’s arms monopoly plan. U.S. contacts of General Rodolph Haykal are expected to...
Court staff in Lebanon announced Friday they will extend their strike next week, from Monday, Feb. 2 through Friday, Feb. 6, demanding higher wages and improved working conditions. In a statement...
An explosion struck a building in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, state television reported, adding that the cause was not yet known. Iran’s official IRNA news agency...
BEIRUT — It was the final boarding call. Passport in hand, Anthony* walked down the jet bridge toward the plane. He was one of dozens of consultants filling the Sunday-night flight from Beirut to...
It is now a done deal. After three marathon days, Parliament adopted the 2026 budget bill on Thursday.As a result, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri no longer has the convenient excuse he had long...
In the aftermath of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, the slogan "shukran Qatar" ("thank you, Qatar") filled the streets of Lebanon as residents expressed their...
Iran warned the United States and Israel on Saturday against any attack, saying its armed forces were on ‘’maximum alert’’ following the deployment this week of significant U.S. military forces in...
He’s a thin but dignified boy, trembling in his clothes. He’s escorted — or rather, thrown — into freedom, with not a penny in his pocket, in a sickly Raqqa recently reconnecting to the capital.He...
Israeli airstrikes killed eleven people Saturday in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The strikes came amid a fragile truce in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the...
22:04 Beirut Time Trump says Iran talks underway, military options still on table U.S. President Donald Trump said Tehran is currently negotiating with Washington and that any...
The United States on Friday approved multibillion-dollar weapons sales to both Israel and Saudi Arabia, at a point of high tensions with Iran. The State Department said it green-lit a $3.8-billion...
As time runs out ahead of a possible U.S. strike on the Islamic Republic, America's allies in the Middle East are stepping up.U.S. President Donald Trump is said to have been briefed on new...
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
