BEIRUT — Five years and one month after the Beirut port explosion on Aug. 4, 2020 killed over 230 people and shattered the capital, families of the victims gathered again Thursday evening at the...
BEIRUT — Foreign Affairs Minister Joe Rajji praised in Cairo the "historic" decision made last August by the Lebanese government to ask the army to develop a plan for disarming militias,...
A drone strike targeting a car near Aleppo International Airport in northern Syria on Thursday killed two people, according to a Syrian official cited by AFP. The toll was confirmed by the...
SOUTH LEBANON —A fragile calm settled in southern Lebanon from Wednesday night to Thursday, following an especially deadly day during which Israel bombarded several areas, even reaching near Saida,...
Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, a style icon, has passed away at the age of 91, surrounded by his loved ones, his company announced on Thursday. “It is with immense sadness that the Armani...
South Sudanese authorities on Thursday denied any agreement with Israel to resettle Palestinians on their soil and assured that they also had no commitment to the United States to accept more...
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar announced Thursday that the seizure on Tuesday at the Port of Tripoli, in North Lebanon, of 125 kilograms of cocaine is the largest quantity of cocaine...
BEIRUT — Artificial intelligence... now at the service of agriculture. The Ministry of State for Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence and the Ministry of Agriculture organized a...
Summer concludes with a mixed outlook for real estate professionals. After the rebound of the residential market in Beirut during the first quarter of 2025, sector players were expecting strong...
U.S. support to Ukraine security guarantees will be finalised in the coming days, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, after a call with among others U.S. President Donald Trump in...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese discussed opportunities for Australia and the United States to cooperate on critical minerals in a phone call with President Donald Trump on Thursday...
The warning is unprecedented. As the fifth anniversary of the Abraham Accords, signed on Sept. 15, 2020, between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, approaches, Abu Dhabi is sounding more...
In public squares and on social media, images of ancient Persia — Cyrus the Great, Persepolis, and other pre-Islamic symbols — are now shown alongside Shiite icons. This nationalist shift in Iran...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced Thursday that it had destroyed cannabis plants in the locality of Hour Taala, east of Baalbeck near the Syrian border, according to a statement noting its...
Iran has downgraded diplomatic ties with Australia, its foreign ministry said on Thursday, a week after Australia expelled the Iranian ambassador over accusations that Tehran directed two...
BEIRUT — Two days after the Israeli attack on UNIFIL soldiers near Marwahine, President Joseph Aoun called UNIFIL chief Diodato Abagnara to ensure peacekeepers’ safety and condemned the Israeli...
Pope Leo discussed the "tragic situation in Gaza" during a meeting on Thursday with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and called for a permanent ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave, the...
BEIRUT — A Hezbollah source told L’Orient-Le Jour Thursday night that Amal and Hezbollah's ministers will walk out of Friday’s Cabinet session on the state’s monopoly on weapons as soon as...
Rescue workers on Thursday pulled bodies from the rubble of homes razed in Afghanistan's earthquakes as the confirmed death toll topped 2,200, while homeless survivors faced a bleak future with...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Thursday, in a statement, the arrest of a Lebanese man, A. B. (born in 1997), involved in "trafficking of war weapons from Syria to...
The launch of the Ofek 19 satellite is "a message to all our enemies, wherever they are: We are watching you at all times and under all circumstances," Israeli Defense Minister Israel...
BEIRUT — The mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Abdellatif Derian, stated Thursday, on the occasion of the Prophet's birthday, that the unity of a "fragmented, weakened, and corruption- and...
An old controversy has resurfaced. Last week, Hezbollah’s channel Al-Manar aired a documentary about Jaafar Mortada, a Shiite cleric close to the party who is known for his critical stance toward...
The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Washington museum in what U.S. authorities have called an anti-Israel hate crime is set to appear in court on Thursday to...
19:48 Beirut Time Israel says Macron not welcome without u-turn on Palestinian State recognition In a sharp diplomatic message, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced Thursday...
On Wednesday, Sept. 3, the list for the first round of the Goncourt Prize was announced. Among the 15 selected authors is Lebanese novelist Charif Majdalani, who captivated the jury’s discerning...
Nigeria's air force killed more than 15 Islamist militia fighters in an airstrike on a their hideout around the Sambisa forest in the northeastern Borno state, a spokesperson said on Thursday....
With a deadline that Hezbollah is increasingly afraid of approaching — the army's submission of its plan to disarm militias to the government on Friday — the party is showing its teeth. Through...
The Metropolitan Opera in New York announced Wednesday an agreement to perform in Saudi Arabia and provide artistic training in the oil-rich kingdom as it works to shore up a creaky financial...
Turkish authorities announced Wednesday that they have banned a concert by French singer Enrico Macias, scheduled for Friday in Istanbul, following calls to protest against the artist over his...
A U.S. judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to overturn deep funding cuts to Harvard University that froze more than $2 billion over allegations of antisemitism and bias at the Ivy...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday promised "the ten plagues" to Yemen's Houthi rebels, after the army reported the launch of another missile toward Israel. "The...
China does not target any third party while developing diplomatic ties with other countries, its foreign ministry said on Thursday, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's comment that...
Happy September, a month that this year carries with it two dramatic lunar eclipses. While it might sound overwhelming, it's just an obnoxious way to say that every habit you welcome into your...
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
