BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi on Thursday issued a series of circulars addressed to the Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the Beirut Governorate, calling for a...
The computer system at the Beirut Port's customs administration broke down on Wednesday, temporarily paralyzing control operations on goods entering and leaving the, but was fixed at the end of the...
This article is part one of a two-part series on architectural heritage between Ireland and Lebanon. Click here to read part two. DUBLIN — Historic neighborhoods in the Irish capital, Dublin,...
Western nations believe that conditions for the return of Syrians “have not been met,” urging Beirut to develop a “comprehensive strategy.” Twelve years since the onset of the Civil War, Syrian...
BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury referred some 114 members of the Judges' Club to judicial inspection on Wednesday, after the judges allegedly failed to comply with a...
Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Thursday that the man who fired a gun at the entrance to the American Embassy in Beirut last month confessed to previously firing at other...
Bashar al-Assad and Khaled Khalifa share a commonality. They are both Syrian nationals of the same generation. Similarities stop there. Assad, aged 58, is known for brutal repression, selling off...
BEIRUT — Several dozen students demonstrated on Thursday in front of the Palace of Justice in Beirut to protest tuition hikes at Lebanese University and to demand the return of PCR fees worth...
At least 100 people were killed on Thursday in an attack on a military academy in Syria, a war monitor and an official said, with weaponized drones bombing the site minutes after Syria's defense...
When the war unexpectedly erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sept. 19, Aline Kamakian, owner of Mayrig, a renowned Armenian restaurant in Beirut, immediately took action. Cutting short the culinary...
Iraq will ban cash withdrawals and transactions in US dollars as of Jan. 1 2024 in the latest push to curb the misuse of its hard currency reserves in financial crimes and the evasion of US...
ANKARA — US-led forces reportely shot down a drone over northern Syria on Thursday as US-allied Syrian Kurdish forces said Turkish attacks had killed eight people in an escalation prompted by a...
BEIRUT/CAIRO — Asma Ibrahim, an unemployed woman who lives in a cramped shack in northern Lebanon, has no idea why she was refused a welfare benefit for the country's poorest people - money that...
At least eight people have been killed in Turkish drone strikes on Thursday on the Kurdish-held zone of northeast Syria, a war monitor and a local security source said, following Ankara's threats...
BEIRUT — Germany pledged on Wednesday to provide the cash-strapped Lebanese Army with fuel and medical supplies aid worth €2 million. After meeting with the Lebanese Army Chief Joseph Aoun in...
A ground operation into Syria is one option Turkey could consider, a defense ministry official said on Thursday after Ankara found the two attackers who set off a bomb near government buildings...
Turkish strikes on Kurdish targets killed two people in northeastern Syria Thursday, a monitor said, after Ankara threatened raids on Iraq and Syria in retaliation for a bombing....
Syrian army shelling killed an elderly woman and four of her children in the war-torn country's northwest, rescue workers and a monitor said on Thursday. The overnight...
Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said as the Israeli army reported soldiers were engaged in a shootout....
BEIRUT—“It’s cold in the morning / It’s cold in the mourning,” chants Tamara Qaddoumi on the second track of her forthcoming EP, “Sorry Signal,” out Dec. 8. Qaddoumi’s lyrics elide the distance...
An Iranian girl aged 16 has been left in a coma and is being treated in a hospital under heavy security after an assault on the Tehran subway, a rights group said on Tuesday, blaming the Islamic...
Egyptian opposition parties said on Wednesday that people trying to endorse candidates hoping to stand against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in an election in December had been repeatedly...
Turkey on Wednesday launched fresh strikes against Kurdish targets in Iraq and warned of more intense cross-border air raids after concluding that militants who staged a weekend attack in Ankara...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The Civil Defense rescued motorists trapped in flooded Beirut suburbs as heavy rain inundated roads across the country. The...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
