GENEVA — Israel was cleared to enter the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest on Thursday after the organising body decided not to call a vote on its participation, despite boycott threats from some...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday picked his military secretary, a general with no background in intelligence, as the next head of the country's foreign intelligence agency...
SOUTH LEBANON — About an hour before a Cabinet meeting opened Thursday at the presidential palace in Baabda, the Israeli army issued an evacuation order and then launched a series of strikes on...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced in a statement Thursday that it has turned over to the judiciary a man accused of belonging to the Islamic State group (IS) and of leading a terrorist cell in...
The United States announced Wednesday that it has deployed its first squadron of one-way attack drones, or kamikaze drones, in the Middle East as part of a new Task Force created by the U.S....
BEIRUT — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi extended an official invitation to his Lebanese counterpart, Joe Rajji, on Thursday to visit Tehran to discuss, among other things, the...
BEIRUT — The French president's special envoy for Lebanon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, is expected to arrive in Beirut early next week, according to information obtained by L'Orient Today. During...
Six years into Lebanon’s financial crisis, the country stands at a crossroads. In the wake of the Beirut One investor conference, the prospect of rekindling investor confidence may still seem...
In early July 1967, with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees, Omar Sharif made the front page of every political daily in Egypt for the first time.“To his compatriots, he was, at that stage, a...
Yasser Abou Shabab, who led a militia backed by Israel and rivaling Hamas in Gaza, died on Thursday of wounds obtained during clashes between militias, a security source told Haaretz. The news was...
The concert by Quartetto di Cremona, organized by the Italian Cultural Institute, took place on Dec. 2 in the legendary setting of the Saint Joseph Church in Monot, as part of the 18th edition of...
BEIRUT — A Cabinet meeting started Thursday shortly after 3 p.m. at the presidential palace in Baabda, during which the government is set to be briefed by the Lebanese Army on advances in its...
Israeli strike on southern Lebanon one hour after evacuation warning
The Beirut and Beyond International Music Festival (BBIMF) returns on Thursday, Dec. 4, after a two-year forced absence, in which war, famine and other forms of oppression — from Gaza to Lebanon —...
The Israeli army announced Thursday afternoon that it would soon carry out strikes in southern Lebanon against what it describes as "Islamist Hezbollah" movement infrastructure, and...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army responded Thursday to statements by an Iranian analyst, who was commenting on a speech by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and claimed that "30 percent of the...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Thursday received former ambassador Simon Karam at the Grand Serail. Karam was appointed the day before as Lebanon's civil representative at meetings of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in an "astonishingly reckless" act that led to the death...
In just a few weeks, we will list this year's accomplishments and compare them with last year's New Year's resolutions. Ironically, the best feeling is when they don't line up, and...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hosted his Moroccan counterpart in Madrid on Thursday for talks with the European Union's strategic North African neighbour, notably on the sensitive...
The national broadcasters behind the Eurovision Song Contest, which draws millions of viewers worldwide, meet on Thursday to discuss whether Israel can compete next year, amid threats by some...
More than 3,000 al-Mahdi scouts gathered on the road of Beirut’s southern suburbs to greet the pope. This may be just a detail in Pope Leo XIV’s three-day visit to Lebanon, which was full of...
A United Nations Security Council delegation arrived in Syria on Thursday, state media reported, the first-ever visit to the country just days before the anniversary of the ousting of longtime...
"It has always been claimed that studies in economic sciences are very theoretical and not suited to real market conditions. These ideas are completely mistaken," asserts Professor...
BEIRUT — Iraq’s central bank-affiliated committee will review its recently published list of 26 groups, including Hezbollah and the Houthis, whose assets were frozen over alleged “terrorist”...
Lebanon took a step forward to avoid a new Israeli war, the threat of which has become increasingly imminent. Beirut decided to raise the representation level and give a diplomatic dimension to the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he still planned to visit New York despite incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani's threats to arrest him in compliance with an International...
Mixing diced tomatoes, coriander, crushed garlic and canned beans in one hand while taking L’Orient Today’s phone call with the other, Dania* tells the newspaper from Gaza that “leaving Gaza once...
Less than a week before the first anniversary of Bashar al-Assad's downfall, the region of Sweida in southern Syria is experiencing renewed tensions amid deep mistrust of Damascus. The lifeless...
Gaza's civil defense agency told AFP on Wednesday that an Israeli strike on the Palestinian territory killed five people including two children. The Israeli military said it had struck a...
Israel's army said Thursday the remains of the second-to-last Gaza hostage — a Thai national — to be handed over had been identified. It comes as a U.S.-brokered cease-fire between Israel and...
20:55 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage for today, thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more updates and analysis of the news as it unfolds....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Dec, 4, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:5 a.m. General Security launches the twelfth phase of...
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
