NEW YORK — Turkey should tighten its monetary policy and give its central bank more independence, a mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday. "To address [Turkey's]...
BEIRUT — Twenty-seven months after the Aug. 4, 2020, deadly Beirut blast, a small group of families of the victims gathered in two separate groups outside the port on Friday for the monthly vigil...
The rules have changed. The Free Patriotic Movement is now playing with Hezbollah barefaced as if the end of Michel Aoun’s term in office freed the FPM from the commitments it found itself bound to...
There is no new president, and the government is a caretaker cabinet. After former President Michel Aoun’s term of office expired Oct. 31, and Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati failed to put...
A small workshop manufacturing various drugs was discovered in a farm located in the village of Hoch Barda, in Baalbeck, the Lebanese Army announced Friday in a statement. The owners of the farm,...
TEHRAN — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi Friday ridiculed a vow by US President Joe Biden to “free” Iran, as weeks of protests in the Islamic republic show little sign of abating. Campaigning for...
BEIRUT —A wanted suspect was killed and a soldier was injured during an exchange of fire with the Lebanese Army in Mount Lebanon, the army announced in a statement on Friday. The suspect...
After being excluded from many country's airspace since March 8, 2022, due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Aeroflot will soon resume flights between Moscow's Pushkin Airport and Beirut, according...
People calling for a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar are from a handful of countries that do not represent the rest of the world which is looking forward to the tournament, Qatar's Minister of...
GENEVA, Switzerland — Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement has committed war crimes since the expiry of a peace agreement last month, the United Nations' human rights chief said on Friday, citing...
Khadija Bathich, 65, and Ahmad Bathich, 78, were sleeping peacefully in their room at the retirement home in Tonder, a small town in southern Denmark, when police knocked at their door. The couple...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkey's main opposition party has said its leader is the first target of a media "disinformation" law after police asked prosecutors to open an investigation into comments he...
CAIRO, Egypt — The acting leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Ibrahim Munir, died on Friday, the organization said on its website. Munir, who died in London at the age of 85, was twice...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Health Ministry announced Friday that it launched an investigation on Thursday, following the death of a one-year-old in a Bekaa Valley hospital, without giving further details...
Tourism reservations for Christmas and the New Year “will be similar to those Lebanon experienced during the summer season ,” when official figures counted more than one million visitors and $4.5...
The maritime border agreement between Lebanon and the Israeli government had hardly been signed on Oct. 27 before Lebanese officials rushed to launch negotiations with their two other neighbors,...
DUBAI — Iran held state-sponsored annual rallies on Friday marking the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, as the clerical establishment that has ruled since then battles nationwide protests...
AWALI, Bahrain — Pope Francis on Friday appealed to religious leaders to help bring the world back from "the brink of a delicate precipice" and oppose a new race to rearm that he said was...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Friday announced a slight increase in gasoline prices and a slight decrease in diesel and gas prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's hardline president on Friday said that Iran had been "freed" by the 1979 Islamic revolution, responding to a vow by U.S. President Joe Biden to "free Iran." "I...
BEIRUT — Several Lebanese MPs on Friday condemned the violence that erupted between supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement, known as "The Old Guard," and the audience of local channel MTV's "Sar...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Several Lebanese MPs on Friday condemned the violence that erupted between members of the Free Patriotic Movement, known as...
BEIRUT — Seven new cholera cases have been recorded in 24 hours in Lebanon by the Ministry of Health, according to a statement issued on Friday morning, bringing the total to 413 number of...
Israeli fighter jets early Friday targeted a rocket manufacturing site in the Gaza Strip, in response to rockets fired towards Israel, the Israeli army said. One of the rockets was intercepted and...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said the process of the United States approving the sale of F-16 fighter jets to NATO member Turkey was going well and could be completed...
OCEANSIDE, United States — United States President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed to "free" Iran, and said that demonstrators working against the country's government would soon succeed in freeing...
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?
