Without surprise, MP Samy Gemayel was re-elected head of the Kataeb party on Sunday, winning 357 votes among party delegates, against Abboud Kahaleh, who received 22. Five invalid ballots and two...
BEIRUT — Cadet officer in the Lebanese Army Jana Sader has become the first woman in the army to pilot the A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft, the Lebanese Army tweeted on Sunday. Sader ...
BEIRUT — The president of the General Confederation of Workers, Bechara al-Asmar, rejected the decision of Economy Minister Amin Salam to allow Lebanese supermarkets to price foodstuffs in US...
Qatar's main international airport aims to pass a record 40 million passengers this year as the Gulf state seeks to build on staging the World Cup to bolster its reputation, its tourism chief said...
Iraqi activists protested on Sunday to demand a law against domestic violence, days after a YouTuber was strangled by her father in a killing that has outraged the conservative country....
Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami and former premier Mir Hossein Mousavi have both called for political changes amid the protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. As the...
BEIRUT — A winter storm currently hitting Lebanon caused damage and cut off roads in both the north and south of the country, the state-run National News Agency and L’Orient Today’s regional...
KABUL — An envoy for Qatar's foreign affairs minister visited the Afghan capital on Sunday and met with the Taliban administration's acting foreign minister, according to an Afghan...
ISTANBUL — Turkish police said they had not found evidence of any concrete threat to foreigners after detaining 15 Islamic State suspects accused of targeting consulates and non-Muslim...
BEIRUT — A grenade was found Sunday morning attached to the door of a car in the village of Jibsheet, in the Nabatieh region of South Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported. The...
Iranian authorities have detained a journalist at a reformist publication, local media reported Sunday, as her sister, also a journalist, remains in custody after reporting on Mahsa Amini's death....
DUBAI — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned "tens of thousands" of prisoners, including many arrested in recent anti-government protests over security-related charges,...
DUBAI — Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman warned on Saturday that sanctions and underinvestment in the energy sector could result in a shortage of energy supplies. The...
BEIRUT — The intelligence services in Lebanon have initiated operations against money exchangers in South Lebanon and the Bekaa, L'Orient Today 's correspondents in these regions reported, as...
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai said during his Sunday homily that “some [political figures] talk about the necessity of dialogue in order to reach a consensual candidate [for the...
A prominent Iraqi activist campaigning for the preservation of the famed Mesopotamian marshes has been kidnapped by armed men south of the capital Baghdad, his family said Sunday....
JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of Israelis braved heavy rain on Saturday for a fifth week of protests against judicial reform plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government that critics...
The Israeli army said Saturday it had "intercepted a small aircraft over the Gaza Strip," where witnesses told AFP they heard "explosions" near the border. The army...
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
