BEIRUT — On Thursday, the Constitutional Council (CC) issued a decision to completely suspend eight articles of the 2024 budget adopted by Parliament at the end of January. It also partially...
BEIRUT — Leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM, Aounist) Gebran Bassil told a Kuwaiti newspaper on Friday that Hezbollah "has lost the power to decide to stop the war" with Israel. The MP...
Swiss International Air Lines said Friday it had turned back a flight in mid-air heading from Zurich to Beirut on Thursday because the security situation in Lebanon had become "difficult to...
When the crisis commenced, selling a part of the gold reserves to offset Lebanon’s financial collapse was considered. Today, as gold prices increase, what if Lebanon decides to sell its gold? Three...
A US-based charity demanded on Friday that an independent commission investigate the killing of its seven aid workers in Gaza, saying the Israeli military "cannot credibly" probe its own...
Israel said Friday it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed in Gaza seven aid workers whose deaths caused an international outcry, with its military admitting a series of "grave mistakes"...
BEIRUT – Quds Day, also known as "Jerusalem Day," is an annual global event held to express solidarity with Palestine and oppose the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. It is...
This article was updated at 9:00 p.m. Beirut time to include Mohieldin's meetings with Berri and Khalil. BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with the Executive Director of the...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday Washington wanted to see "results" showing more aid was reaching Gazans after Israel announced it would open routes into the territory....
“We’re in shock. We’re so scared now,” the janitor told a biker at the entrance hall to the affluent building in Achrafieh’s Sioufi neighborhood. One of the front doors on the fifth floor is...
Israel had "no more excuses" to delay aid getting into Gaza, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Friday, after the Israeli government said it would open more aid routes into the...
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday demanded a halt to all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of "genocide" in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 33,000 people....
The health ministry in Gaza said Friday that at least 33,091 people have been killed in the territory during nearly six months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants. ...
Thousands of people gathered in Tehran on Friday for the funerals of seven members of the Revolutionary Guards killed in a strike in Syria, which Iran blamed on Israel. The...
The UN Human Rights Council was on Friday debating whether to demand a halt in arms sales to Israel, whose war in Gaza has killed more than 33,000 people, mostly civilians....
Former US president Donald Trump has said that Israel is "losing the PR war" in Gaza because of the images coming out of the territory and must end the conflict quickly. "Every...
BEIRUT — Israel's war cabinet has decided to take "immediate steps" to boost "humanitarian assistance" for civilians in the Gaza Strip, Haaretz reported Friday. The additional aid will be...
US CIA Director Bill Burns is expected to travel to Cairo this weekend to meet with his Egyptian and Israeli counterparts and the Qatari prime minister to try to reach a breakthrough in talks on...
Eight out of 10 schools in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, UNICEF says, but it is the psychological damage the war has done to the territory's nearly 1.2 million children that has experts really...
President Joe Biden warned Israel of a sharp shift in his policy over the Gaza war Thursday amid growing frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu and mounting domestic pressure in a US election year. A...
Israel will allow "temporary" aid deliveries via its border with the northern Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced Friday, hours after a warning from US...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon increased on Friday, according to the Ministry of Energy. The price of domestic gas cylinders has remained unchanged. But all changes remain modest. Here are the...
A prominent Iraqi jihadist leader in Syria's rebel-held northwest was killed in a suicide bombing, the group he was in and a war monitor said on Friday. "Abu Maria...
21:34 Beirut Time That's it for today's live coverage of the Gaza war and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's Jerusalem Day speech. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow with...
Major international aid groups warned Thursday it was now almost impossible to work in Gaza, as one accused countries supplying arms to Israel of being complicit in what "amounts to genocide."...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 181 of the Gaza war here . Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah is set...
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
