BEIRUT — Following an appeal by the Union of Building Owners, the Council of State decided on Thursday to suspend a decision made on Dec. 26, 2023, by the outgoing government to delay the...
BEIRUT — A recent joint investigation by Israeli left-wing news and opinion online magazine +972 and a Hebrew-language news site Local Call exposes the existence of an AI-based program named...
The United States granted approval for the transfer of thousands of additional bombs to Israel on the same day as an Isreali airstrike killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza,...
BEIRUT — More than 190 tons of rice that do not conform to health standards have entered Lebanon and remain unaccounted for, MP Melhem Khalaf warned on Thursday. Khalaf told Parliament that the...
BEIRUT — The government has agreed to raise the official minimum wage in the private sector to LL18 million (around $200 at today's rate of LL89,500 to the dollar) caretaker Minister of Labor...
Melhem Sayde (37) and Joelle Abu Chabkeh (36) sat in the living room of their flat in the agricultural plain of Ferzol, nestled in central Bekaa, with a traditional charcoal stove warming the room....
BEIRUT — Parliament's Finance and Budget Committee has promised a temporary solution to address the pending payment of 2,100 Civil Defense employees' salaries. Those affected haven't received...
Oxfam released a report on Wednesday revealing that in northern Gaza, which has seen some of the most profound damage and the most desperate conditions for the displaced, the available food supply...
BEIRUT — Outgoing Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced his intention to declare southern Lebanon an “agricultural disaster zone,” on Thursday, in response to the devastating impact of nearly six...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s human development index (HDI), which measures economic and social development, now ranks 109 out of 193 countries, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s...
Israeli security services said Thursday they had foiled a plot to kill the country's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Eleven people including seven...
Bulgarian police have uncovered a stash of weapons linked to four suspected Hamas members arrested in Germany and the Netherlands in December, according to German media reports and AFP sources....
The recent words between Maronite Patriarch Bechara al- Rai and Jaafarite Mufti Ahmad Kabalan, who is close to Hezbollah, showed the extent to which tension has been mounting between Christian and...
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday prolonged by a year an independent international fact-finding mission investigating Iran's deadly crackdown on protests that erupted in 2022....
The Israeli army has suspended leave for its combat units, it said Thursday, amid the Gaza war and as tensions with Iran grew after a strike on Tehran's consulate in Damascus....
Lebanese journalist Firas Hatoum appeared on Thursday morning before the intelligence services of the Internal Security Forces, where he was summoned in a case linked to the series Marhaba Dawleh...
Iran has repatriated the bodies of seven Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike on the country's consular annex in Damascus, which Tehran blamed on Israel, local media reported....
The leaders of the United States and Israel were set to speak on Thursday after Washington expressed "outrage" over Israel's killing of seven aid workers and growing concern over its...
Around 50 people demonstrated in front of Lebanon's Central Bank (BDL) headquarters in Beirut's Hamra district on Thursday morning, at the call of the Depositors' Union and the Mouttahidoun...
Every evening during Ramadan, members of a motorbike club zip down the streets of Damascus to deliver meals to those in need during the Muslim holy month. "We hit the most...
Gaza's health ministry said that over 33,000 people have been killed in the enclave since fighting began on Oct. 7. A total of 33,037 people have been killed in the latest daily death toll...
US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to speak on Thursday in their first phone call since an Israeli strike on a humanitarian convoy killed seven aid workers...
Ten security members were killed in two attacks claimed by jihadists in Iran's restive southeast, state television reported Thursday, updating an earlier toll of five. "The case of the terrorist...
Iran has turned its prisons into sites of mass killing with at least 853 people executed in the Islamic Republic in 2023, over half of them on drug-related charges, Amnesty International said on...
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday defended his "integrity" and "transparent" assets, following a complaint filed in France accusing him of money laundering and other offenses....
Israeli minister Benny Gantz, a member of the war cabinet and main rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called Wednesday for snap parliamentary elections in September. ...
22:18 Beirut Time That concludes today's live coverage of the Gaza war and its repercussions in the region...
A Palestinian-American doctor said he walked out of a Ramadan event with President Joe Biden at the White House to show solidarity with the people of Gaza against Israel's offensive. Thaer...
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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
