Syrian rescuers were evacuating residential areas in the coastal Latakia province because of major forest fires, authorities said on Friday. Fires have been spreading across large parts of Syria,...
The High Court of Justice in London refused on Friday to suspend the ban on the Palestine Action group, which will be added to the list of organizations considered as terrorist in the United...
Under mounting military, diplomatic, and political pressure, the party may be willing to give up its heavy weapons — the arsenal that has long granted it regional clout — in order to help Lebanon...
The association Lawyers for Justice in the Middle East (AJPO) indicated Friday that it had filed a complaint in Paris targeting French-Israelis and French entities that, according to them, are...
The governor of the Bank of France, François Villeroy de Galhau, donned a green cap bearing the message "Make Europe Great Again," a twist on Donald Trump's slogan, Friday during a...
BEIRUT — Amal MP and former minister Ghazi Zeaiter did not appear this Friday at the hearing before the investigating judge at the Court of Justice, Tarek Bitar, who had summoned him as a suspect...
European Union negotiators have failed so far to achieve a breakthrough in trade negotiations with the Trump administration and may now seek to extend the status quo to avoid tariff hikes, five EU...
Dozens of Israeli settlers and Palestinians clashed Friday in the occupied West Bank village of Sinjil, where a march against recent settler attacks on nearby farmland was due to take place. AFP...
BEIRUT — Finance Minister Yassine Jaber hosted the new World Bank director for Lebanon, Enrique Blanco Armas, at his ministry on Friday. Blanco Armas' appointment was announced on Tuesday....
BEIRUT — The media office of Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar issued a statement Friday saying that "social media platforms are circulating claims that the minister issued a decision banning...
BEIRUT — The mukhtars of Shebaa expressed their astonishment at "the positions of some politicians and analysts who, from time to time, generously speak of relinquishing or giving up our land,...
BEIRUT — The Justice Minister, Adel Nassar, insisted Friday on the necessity of "knowing the fate of all Lebanese who disappeared in Syria" and respecting "the right of families to...
BEIRUT —Egypt’s ambassador to Lebanon, Alaa Moussa, said Friday that President Joseph Aoun is adopting a “realistic approach” to the question of state control over arms, expressing hope for an...
BEIUT — The Lebanese Agriculture Ministry announced Friday the launch of the "TNVR" plan, (capture, neuter, vaccinate, and release), with the aim of addressing the issue of stray dogs in...
Israel's opposition leader said Friday he met with the United Arab Emirates foreign minister in Abu Dhabi and discussed efforts for a ceasefire in Gaza. The UAE normalised ties with Israel in...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) recorded a modest rebound in June, defying expectations in a bleak economic environment marked by regional instability. The index rose by 0.3...
As part of the ongoing efforts to revive the area, a mobile transmission station belonging to Alfa arrived Friday afternoon in the town of Mais al-Jabal (Bint Jbeil), L'Orient Today's...
SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli army infiltrated Lebanese territory on the night of Thursday to Friday and blew up a textile factory in Mais al-Jabal, in the Marjayoun district, and a residence in Aita...
The Civil Defense announced Friday that it had controlled a major fire that broke out at dawn in a warehouse belonging to the establishment "Homescape" in Taanayel, in the Bekaa. The...
Amid mounting criticism of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) for bias and dangerous aid practices, internal voices are now speaking out. Two employees of an American subcontractor tasked with...
The pressure is mounting on Hezbollah, as the deadline it was given to consider handing over its weapons to the state is nearing expiration. Officials are awaiting its comments on the response they...
President Joseph Aoun urged Lebanese magistrates on Friday to "not yield to pressure or intimidation" during a tour of the Justice Ministry and Beirut Courthouse, where he met many...
Things are shifting in Sunni circles. On Saturday, Grand Mufti Abdel-Latif Derian is expected in Damascus for talks with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, seven months after the fall of Bashar...
"It's not for the new logo that we're here: Syrians just love celebrations!" says Sagar, a 22-year-old medical student, in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier overlooking...
Some 613 people have been killed during aid distribution in Gaza since the end of May, including 509 near the sites of the only GHF foundation supported by the United States and Israel, the U.N....
Deep in the Beirut summer, weekends can sometimes feel listless. The heat makes you drowsy, the traffic is static, even the humdrum whir of the generators sounds lethargic. When it’s too hot to...
If you’re in Lebanon and use YouTube, TikTok or other social media platforms, you’ve seen these ads. The MLGANOW channel, which stands for “Make Lebanon Great Again” and echoes U.S. President...
"Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan is dead. A man. Not a soldier. Not a politician, not a merchant of ambition. A caregiver," denounced on social media on Wednesday by young Gaza physician Ezzeddine...
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said on Friday that Damascus was willing to cooperate with the United States to reimplement the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel. In a statement...
At some point each day, the roar of a water truck engine cuts through the Lebanese soundscape — a now familiar noise that has become more frequent than ever. As summer begins, water restrictions...
Clashes erupted again in the town of Kfar Dabash, west of Baalbeck, on Friday, following violent incidents on Thursday that resulted in two fatalities and left a third person critically injured....
On Thursday morning, July 3, 45 Palestinian civilians were killed by the Israeli army near the aid distribution sites of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). In less than a month, the operations...
During his visit Friday to President Joseph Aoun at Baabda Palace, Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil said that in exchange for Hezbollah handing over its weapons to the State,...
Agriculture Minister Nizar Hani led an official delegation to the 44th FAO Conference in Rome. There, he stressed that “food security is no longer a political or developmental luxury, but an...
Gaza lies in ruins, but Hamas has not been “eradicated;” Hezbollah is severely weakened, yet refuses to surrender its weapons; the Iranian regime is on the brink of collapse, but has not abandoned...
BEIRUT — Carine Abdelnour, editor-in-chief of the digital weekly al-Hourra, maintained her refusal to appear in person before the Court of Cassations' prosecutor for questioning this week, opting...
A few days before the expected return of U.S. envoy Tom Barrack to Beirut — where Lebanese officials are due to respond to his proposal for Hezbollah’s disarmament — Israel has escalated military...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Friday said the army had a plan to prevent Iran from threatening Israel again after the arch-foes fought a 12-day war last month. The Israeli military will...
Hezbollah has begun a major strategic review in the wake of its devastating war with Israel, including considering scaling back its role as an armed movement without disarming completely, three...
21:21 Beirut Time Thank you for following our live blog. Join us again tomorrow for the latest updates. 20:39 Beirut Time A Palestinian man ties his shirt over...
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring home all the hostages still held by militants in war-stricken Gaza, where the civil defense agency said 73 people were killed Thursday in his...
A drone was intercepted late on Thursday near Erbil airport, which houses U.S.-led anti-jihadist coalition troops in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish security forces said. "At...
Iran announced Thursday that it has reopened its airspace, including over Tehran, after closing it on June 13 due to the war with Israel, according to state media. "Tehran's Mehrabad and...
Officials on the southern Greek island of Crete evacuated thousands of people from wildfires, while two people died in neighbouring Turkey as fires took hold in the western province of Izmir on...
Egypt on Thursday rejected what it called Ethiopia's "unilateral" actions over its controversial Nile dam project, after Addis Ababa announced the multi-billion-dollar project was now...
President Emmanuel Macron threatened Tehran with "retaliatory measures" if Iran upheld new charges against a French couple held in Iran, including claims that they spied for Israel....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, July 4, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:Gathering international momentum against the deadly...
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
