Some thirty relatives of victims of the explosion that devastated the port of Beirut and part of the capital on Aug. 4, 2020, gathered late on Monday afternoon in front of the Emigrant statue in...
As Israeli tanks move into central Gaza, edging on Khan Yunis, the people there are pushed into smaller and smaller spaces, crowded together, seeking shelter from missiles that seem to rain down on...
BEIRUT — Gebran Bassil, head of the Free Patriotic Movement, criticized a call to establish "the youth of al-Aqsa Flood unit" by the branch of Hamas in Lebanon. The call was made Monday, in a post...
AMMAN — Food assistance across Syria will end in January due to a funding crunch that had already curtailed its aid program in the war devastated country, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on...
DUBAI — Countries must put people's health at the center of their plans to fight climate change and phase out fossil fuels as a way to tackle air pollution and diseases being aggravated by...
Family members of Ibrahim Dahman, a CNN journalist from Gaza, were killed and his childhood home destroyed in two separate Israeli strikes, according to reports on the American channel's website....
Human Rights Watch released videos Monday of satellite imagery revealing the destruction of orchards, greenhouses, and farmland in northern Gaza, razed since Israeli's ground invasion began a...
The Parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee hopes to complete its examination of the 2024 draft budget as early as next week. If adopted, the budget will regulate public spending and modify...
Script Transcript: These two apartment buildings in Mansourieh used to be the same height. But on Oct. 16, the one on the right collapsed, killing 8 residents. Civil engineers say that there...
NICOSIA — Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides will visit Egypt and Jordan on Tuesday as part of an initiative to establish a humanitarian aid corridor to Israeli-besieged Gaza....
BEIRUT – A smaller 100,000 Lira note is officially in circulation as of Dec. 1, 2023. While the old bill’s size is 147x82 mm, the new note’s dimensions are 135x66 mm. People can still use the...
Israeli authorities are investigating claims by American researchers that some investors may have known in advance of a Hamas plan to attack Israel on Oct. 7 and used that information to profit...
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea has been taking every opportunity to criticize the caretaker government’s decision to compensate residents of southern Lebanon affected by Israeli...
He would have turned 38 on Friday had Israeli security forces not ended his life. Israeli citizen Yuval Doron Castleman (also Kestelman) was shot after killing two Hamas militiamen carrying out an...
In a country ranked 119th out of 180 on Reporters Without Borders’ press freedom index, and where punitive practices against journalists are becoming commonplace, media reform is needed more than...
ISTANBUL – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be tried as a war criminal over Israel's ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip....
BEIRUT — Amid a mental health crisis in which thousands are thought to need treatment, insurance coverage for depression, anxiety and other conditions is hard to come by in Lebanon, according to a...
In a series of cross-border attacks, an anti-tank missile was fired on Monday from Lebanon, striking a kibbutz in northern Israel near the Lebanese border, according to Haaretz. No casualties were...
In the midst of an ongoing war with the Hamas militant group, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumed on Monday in Jerusalem, roughly two months after it was halted due...
The tourist boom of the summer seems a distant memory to those running AirBnB’s in Lebanon. Between June and August 2023, 2.55 million passengers arrived at Beirut’s airport, marking a 15.75...
Israel expanded its offensive against Hamas militants in besieged Gaza on Monday, as international concern deepened over the mounting civilian death toll in a war sparked by the Oct. 7 attacks....
22:42 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage from day 59 of the Hamas-Israel war. You can read a summary of today's events here. We'll be back tomorrow with...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on our LIVE coverage of Day 56 , Day 57 and Day 58 of the Israel-Hamas war. Israeli shelling on homes in...
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
