BEBNINE, Akkar — Past the overcrowded waiting area and down a set of stairs toward the basement of a mosque in northern Lebanon’s Bebnine, a sparsely furnished cholera clinic has been hastily set...
BEIRUT — Lebanon has been officially informed of Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval of a donation of 25,000 tons of wheat to the crisis-hit country, Lebanese Public Works Minister Ali...
BEIRUT — Tariffs charged by the state-owned Electricité du Liban will increase dramatically starting Tuesday, EDL's spokesperson told L'Orient Today on Monday evening, without confirming the...
BEIRUT — Michel Aoun in his last day as Lebanon's president on Monday said that "all available options" are on the table to avoid a political crisis "in the coming days," as Lebanon braces itself...
BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon — A man killed his brother on Monday in the village of Chouaghir in Hermel, according to L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the area. An argument had broken out between two...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that a constitutional amendment that his party will present to Turkey's parliament will protect families from what he called "perverse...
Canada on Monday imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, marking the fourth package of sanctions it has implemented for alleged human rights violations in that country, the Foreign Ministry said in a...
BEIRUT — The Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry on Monday called for the formation of a "strong and national" government in Lebanon. The call comes are it now appears inevitable that Lebanon will...
The news of the maritime deal appears to have prompted property owners in Naqoura, located on the border between South Lebanon and Israel, to begin to up the prices of their land in anticipation of...
BEIRUT — Residents of Baalbeck and the families of two Syrian teens, who were kidnapped in the Bekaa Valley city 10 days ago while returning from school, protested on Monday to demand the release...
No sooner said than done. Just before his departure from the Baabda Palace, President Michel Aoun signed on Sunday the resignation decree of the caretaker government, carrying out his threat of...
BEIRUT — The head of the Maronite church, Bechara al-Rai, spoke on Monday morning with the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, at the patriarchal headquarters in Bkirki, about the "latest...
A rights group accused Syrian government forces Monday of burning bodies inside pits in an effort to make the corpses unidentifiable — the latest in a slew of accusations of crimes by Damascus....
JERUSALEM — Israel and Bahrain hope to seal a free trade agreement before the end of the year, officials from both countries said on Monday. Israel normalized diplomatic relations with Bahrain and...
BEIRUT — A ministerial meeting chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati was held on Monday at the Grand Serail to continue the study of the draft budget 2023, the Presidency of the Council...
Iran announced Monday a suspected accomplice of the shooter who carried out a deadly attack on a Shiite Muslim shrine in Shiraz has been arrested, state news agency IRNA reported. At least 13...
DUBAI — About 1,000 people have been indicted in Tehran over rioting and the trials will be held in public this week, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the head of the judiciary in the...
ISTANBUL — Turkey will continue its efforts for the Black Sea grain export deal despite Russian hesitancy, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after Moscow suspended its participation in the...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Monday announced a decrease in fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL675,000, down by LL38,000 ...
Michel Aoun left the Baabda Presidential Palace on Sunday as he entered it six years ago: at war with the rest of the world and with the certainty of being, yet again, a kind of “chosen one.” Not...
BEIRUT — The World Health Organization warned Monday of a deadly cholera outbreak spreading rapidly across Lebanon as neighboring Syria also battles a resurgence of the disease. Lebanon's...
BEIRUT — Lebanese security forces managed on Monday morning to put an end, within half an hour, to a hold-up by a depositor of the Byblos Bank in the Hamra district of Beirut, a spokesperson for...
BEIRUT — Lebanon and Israel concluded on Thursday, Oct. 27, a deal delimiting their maritime border, which ensures the distribution of valuable offshore gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean....
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called Monday on the Parliament to hold a session on Thursday at 11 a.m., in order to "read the President’s letter," regarding the resignation of Najib...
BEIRUT — The caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, said on Sunday, on the eve of the end of President Michel Aoun's mandate, that it seemed "preferable" for his cabinet to continue to...
DUBAI — Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign vessel carrying 11 million liters of smuggled fuel in the Gulf on Monday, according to the Student News Network's Telegram channel. The captain...
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates' energy minister said on Monday that OPEC+ is willing to provide the world with the oil it needs, and that if consumers require more, the alliance of top...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Free Patriotic Movement supporters on Sunday bid farewell to party founder President Michel Aoun as he vacated the Baabda...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
