The Lebanese police announced, in a statement published Wednesday, the arrest of an individual who confessed to burning a minor the day before, in Majdalaya, in the Zgharta district . According...
BEIRUT — Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem as his representative in Lebanon on Wednesday. A letter signed by the Iranian leader and published...
A suspect was arrested after shots were fired in the U.S. state of Ohio, resulting in one killed and several injuries, local authorities announced Wednesday. The attack took place Tuesday evening...
BEIRUT — Palestinian refugees shut down the U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) centers, offices and schools across refugee camps in Lebanon on Wednesday, including its main office in...
BEIRUT — Lebanese jurist Nahla Haidar was re-elected to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Monday, this time as its Chair. Haidar, who was...
Iran is ready to give the United States a chance to resolve disputes between the arch-foes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump restored his...
Tarek Bitar, the investigative judge at the Court of Justice tasked with investigating the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut Port explosion, which killed over 200 people and wounded 6,000, will hold further...
Nawaf Salam’s government will not be formed tonight. The prime minister-designate arrived at the presidential palace in shortly before 6 p.m. to present a draft of his Cabinet to President Joseph...
The optimism sparked by Joseph Aoun’s election as president and the appointment of former International Court of Justice Judge Nawaf Salam to form a new government has begun to fade after nearly a...
The Maronite bishops emphasized on Wednesday the need for Lebanon to form a new government "as soon as possible" and decried the lack of a true cease-fire in south Lebanon. They also...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed that he gave U.S. President Donald Trump a gold pager during his trip to Washington, as a souvenir of Israel's operation against...
A delegation of Iranian military ships and officers was welcomed by their Emirati counterparts on Monday evening, marking Iran navy's first-ever visit to the Gulf state, according to Al...
At first glance, they have nothing in common apart from a passion for life and music and a voice that carries. Manel Mallat pays tribute to the iconic French singer in an intimate and cinematic...
President Joseph Aoun met with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on Wednesday, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported. "They discussed the...
BEIRUT — The municipality of Ramieh, in southern Lebanon's Bint Jbeil district, said Wednesday that Lebanese Army intelligence services had informed local authorities of plans to set up two...
The 2025 budget bill had all but disappeared from the radar since the end of summer. However, caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil brought it back to the forefront, calling for the enactment...
Will Syria become a Turkish stronghold? The announcement, revealed ahead of Tuesday’s meeting between interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara,...
Piracy more than doubled in 2024 after reaching a historic low, while attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and drug trafficking continued to disrupt global maritime traffic, the French maritime...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran "cannot have a Nuclear Weapon," a day after he signed an order reinstating a "maximum pressure" policy against Tehran over...
The think tank Change Lebanon, representing both resident citizens and expatriates who align with the values of the 2019 protest movement, called on Tuesday for President Joseph Aoun and Prime...
The packaging of chemical products found at the oil facilities in Tripoli, North Lebanon, is ongoing, to ship the materials to France for treatment, caretaker Environment Minister Nasser Yassin...
An obelisk in Beirut’s southern suburbs honors Hafez al-Assad, the former Syrian president and father of Bashar al-Assad, in the names of Rafic Hariri and Elias Hrawi. The monument, located on an...
The Lebanese Forces (LF) have been in the opposition for five years. After its ministers resigned from Saad Hariri’s (2019) third cabinet, Samir Geagea’s party refused to join the subsequent...
The U.S. government's giant humanitarian agency USAID on Tuesday announced it was placing its staff in the United States and around the world on administrative leave as it moved to recall...
Nearly 6,000 people have been evacuated and more than 200 tremors recorded in the past 48 hours. Since Sunday morning, seismic activity near the Greek island of Santorini — a popular tourist...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has named Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem as his "representative" in Lebanon, Iranian media reported Wednesday. "The leader of the...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's reimposition of a policy of "maximum pressure" against Iran will end in "failure"...
Racehorse billionaire and Islamic spiritual leader the Aga Khan died on Tuesday aged 88, leaving millions of followers in mourning across the world. Prince Karim al-Husseini was regarded as a...
BEIRUT — A car dealer murdered in Dbayeh on Jan. 14; a Beirut resident found dead in his home two days later after a botched robbery; a gas station owner in Metn discovered tied up and lifeless on...
20:27 Beirut Time Israel Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has announced his country's decision to boycott the U.N. Human Rights Council , which he accuses of “propagating...
Palestinian militant group Hamas lashed out Wednesday at President Donald Trump's shock proposal for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians in other countries,...
At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland. After...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced confidence Tuesday that he could strike a peace deal with regional rival Saudi Arabia – telling reporters that he was committed to making it a...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including its Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and setting up a broader...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was planning to reinstate what he called the "maximum pressure" policy against Iran over allegations that it is trying to develop nuclear...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:Reaction to Trump's remarks about Gaza during...
A former minister under ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has turned himself in, the interior ministry said Tuesday, making him one of the highest-profile figures captured by the new...
BEIRUT — On a grand stage set up among the rubble, a banner reads: “Palestine: the victory of the oppressed people against Nazi Zionism.” Below it, Israeli hostages sign their names and press...
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
