A ballistic missile launched from Iran and heading towards Turkish airspace via Iraq and Syria was destroyed by NATO air defense systems, Turkish officials said Wednesday. The Defense Ministry...
Striving to "Lebanonize" his decision to join the regional war, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem stated Wednesday that Hezbollah has been fighting in Lebanon since Monday against...
French President Emmanuel Macron said he spoke on Wednesday with Lebanese leaders — President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam — as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to...
BEIRUT — As the war raged in Lebanon since Monday, President Joseph Aoun appealed to France and the United States to press for an end to Israeli attacks, holding talks with French President...
BEIRUT — Israeli ground troops pushed deeper into southern Lebanon on Wednesday, raising fears of a broader invasion and possible renewed, deeper occupation, as Israel openly signaled its intention...
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for around 15 strikes carried out since Wednesday morning against Israel, including attacks targeting the headquarters of an aerospace industry company near Ben...
Despite the loss of senior commanders, Iran's Revolutionary Guard has tightened its grip on wartime decision-making, according to high-level sources cited by Reuters , pursuing an...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Social Development Minister Haneen Sayyed held a press conference on Wednesday at the Grand Serail. "Our responsibility, as a state and as a society, is to...
BEIRUT — Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed 72 people and displaced more than 83,000 since the war started between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanese officials announced Wednesday. In a statement,...
While President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam had been pushing for parliamentary elections to be held on time next May, Hezbollah’s decision to join the regional war alongside Iran has...
A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy. Sri Lanka's...
The al-Qard al-Hassan Foundation, a financial entity linked to Hezbollah and often described as one of its key instruments, has lost its ability to operate publically. After targeting the...
With 51.2 points, the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which surveys the sentiment of 400 businesses in Lebanon, had started to rise again and was still hovering above its threshold before the...
Anthony Elghossain is a lawyer and writer. He advises organizations on geopolitics, U.S. foreign policy and the rule of law. Having long styled itself as a national resistance, Hezbollah — now,...
Over 40 years after the revolution, will Iran revert to dynastic succession at a time when the Islamic Republic is fighting for its survival?According to information from the New York Times (NYT),...
Hezbollah lives through its past lives and identities. It is a militia, an offshoot of the Islamic Republic. It is a political party representing the majority of the Shiite community in Lebanon. It...
Five days after Israel and the United States launched a war against Iran — a conflict that has spilled over into several Gulf countries as well as Lebanon — air traffic has been severely disrupted....
Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for about a dozen strikes carried out since Wednesday morning toward Israel, notably targeting the headquarters of an aerospace company near Ben Gurion Airport,...
The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran pits actors with different military capabilities, strategic priorities, and thresholds of tolerance against one another. Even though the Islamic Republic is...
For the fifth consecutive day since the conflict triggered by the United States and Israel against Iran began, Middle East Airlines (MEA) has announced changes to its flight schedule as the...
BEIRUT — The head of the syndicate of workers and distributors in the gas sector, Farid Zeinoun, called on citizens to report any party or individual selling gas cylinders on the black market at...
In Furn al-Shubbak, a predominantly Christian neighborhood close to the majority Shiite southern suburbs of Beirut, the smell of freshly baked mana'ish still drifts through the morning air....
Hotel reservations canceled, trips to Lebanon postponed, restaurants emptied of customers ... Even though it is not peak season, tourism professionals are facing the fallout from the regional war...
The ambassadors of several countries, including Russia, expressed to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun their support for the recent decision taken Monday by the government, which banned all...
The Lebanese Army continued to secure the area four hours after a strike hit the Comfort Hotel in Baabda, in Beirut’s southeastern suburbs, overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. Israeli drones...
A senior Iranian official told the Tasnim agency that if Israel attacks Iranian diplomatic missions or harms Iranian diplomats in Lebanon, the response "will target Zionist missions and...
In a country once again on the brink of chaos, anxiety and exhaustion are taking over people’s minds. How can they not break down when instability and violence follow each other at ever-shorter...
Seven children have been killed and 38 injured in the past 24 hours amid renewed Israeli strikes across Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry, citing a report published by UN children's...
There isn’t a scenario for the “day-after” in Iran that U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t mentioned. Since Feb. 28, his statements have continuously contradicted each other, fueling confusion. On...
Following the Israeli army’s warning directed at al-Qard al-Hassan branches in Lebanon on March 9, 2026, we invite you to revisit this article, originally published after the first wave of strikes...
BEIRUT — Numerous reports circulated Wednesday morning of calls allegedly made from Israeli numbers threatening buildings in several regions of Lebanon, including in Baabda near the Justice Palace...
Iran said on Wednesday it was trying to swiftly appoint a new supreme leader after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Saturday. "We are all trying," said Ahmad...
Facing international pressure and in an effort to contain the escalation, the Cabinet – which met on Monday – had only one choice: to crack down on Hezbollah. In addition to banning the party’s...
The Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a swathe of southern Lebanon on Wednesday, telling residents to move north of the Litani River on the third day of its escalation in the country....
More than 100 aid trucks crossed the Egyptian side of Gaza's Rafah border crossing on Tuesday, two sources told AFP . Israel closed all crossings into the Gaza Strip on Saturday, after it...
Cyprus said a suspect object had been detected close to Lebanese airspace on Wednesday, and a government source said two Greek F-16 fighter jets had been scrambled to intercept it. The alert was...
Hezbollah isn’t limiting its attacks to Israel. From Sunday night into Monday, drones launched from Lebanon targeted British bases in Cyprus – a European Union member state currently holding the...
BEIRUT — On the third day of its escalation in Lebanon, the Israeli army expanded its overnight strikes from Tuesday to Wednesday in Lebanon, hitting Mount Lebanon and Baabda for the first time....
Lebanon did not enter the war. It was dragged into it – not through national decision, not by a parliamentary vote– but by a unilateral choice, dictated by a loyalty decided far from...
The Baabda Justice Palace was evacuated Wednesday morning after an adjacent building was threatened with a strike, according to information confirmed to L'Orient Today by a source close to...
On the first day of the U.S.-Israeli offensive in Iran on Feb. 28, near the Strait of Hormuz, a girls' elementary school called Shajareh Tayyibeh was hit by an airstrike, killing 151 students...
Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened on Wednesday to assassinate any Iranian leader picked to succeed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, March 4, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today: Mass forced displacement of people fleeing...
Iranians are to bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a ceremony on Wednesday at 10 p.m. (1830 GMT) at Tehran's Imam Khomeini prayer ground, state media reported. The...
Between Tuesday night and Wednesday, the Israeli army continued striking southern Lebanon, targeting Harouf, Kfar Tibnit, Arnoun, Yohmor (Nabatieh), Tiri, Beit Lif, Ramieh, Shaqra, Jmaijmeh (Bint...
The state-run news agency National News Agency ( NNA) reported that five people were killed Wednesday in an Israeli strike in Baalbek. According to the NNA , 15 people were also injured in this...
01:13 Beirut Time Israel strikes southern Beirut suburb without warnin In the latest escalation along the Lebanese-Israeli border, the Israeli army struck a building in a southern...
Many believed — or at least hoped — that Hezbollah would keep a low profile, limiting itself to verbal support for Iran and avoiding actions that could drag Lebanon into cannot endure. But on the...
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
