BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced Wednesday that he suspended the work of the committee he had appointed the previous day to resolve land and water disputes in the...
JERUSALEM — An Israeli-Russian academic who went missing in Iraq a few months ago is alive and being held there by Shiite group Kataib Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...
In the midst of Lebanon’s enduring financial crisis, a perplexing phenomenon has emerged: dollar bills, available in abundance, seem to reign supreme as the universal currency. From bustling...
BEIRUT — Tensions escalated on Wednesday at the border between Lebanon and Israel, where at least three violations of Lebanese territory by the Israeli army were reported in the space of a few...
Lebanon has once again narrowly averted a crisis. On Saturday, two individuals — Haitham and Malek Tawk — from the predominantly Christian town of Bsharri, North Lebanon, were tragically killed...
BEIRUT — Tuesday was the world’s hottest day on record, according to US meteorologists, harkening high temperatures that are already intensifying Lebanon's summer wildfire season. “It means we...
In a statement released Tuesday, caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil said he was "committed" to finalizing the preliminary draft budget for 2023 "despite the challenges," and that the draft...
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai and Mufti of the Republic Abdel-Latif Derian, the country's highest Sunni authority, on Wednesday denounced the slowness of Lebanon's Parliament to elect...
In this fifth installment, we tell the story of the Harfoush brothers who started producing sportswear in 2019, after more than two decades of manufacturing military and hunting attire. “Welcome...
BEIRUT — Tripoli MP Ashraf Rifi, a member of the Renewal bloc, tweeted Wednesday that Lebanon "will not be able to bypass the adoption of an amnesty law" to relieve prison overcrowding. In August...
Iran is still meting out harsh punishments on people suspected of involvement in mass protests, including "chilling" executions, a United Nations fact-finding mission said Wednesday....
Canada, Britain, Sweden and Ukraine have taken Iran to the International Court of Justice to seek damages for families of passengers on a jetliner downed by Tehran in 2020, the tribunal said...
BEIRUT — Lebanese authorities have arrested more than 2,000 Syrian refugees and deported 1,800 since April 2023, when the caretaker cabinet gathered to discuss enforcing controversial measures...
The detente in the Middle East, initiated by the Saudi-Iran agreement, does not seem to involve the border between Lebanon and Israel, where the status quo is increasingly being called into...
JENIN — Palestinians returned to the scarred streets of Jenin on Wednesday after Israel ended an unusually intense 48-hour raid, some of them preparing heroes' funerals for the dead while others...
Monday was the world's hottest day on record, exceeding an average of 17 degrees Celsius (62.6 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time, according to initial measurements taken on Tuesday by US...
Saudi Arabia has said it enjoys "full rights" along with Kuwait to a disputed gas field in the resource-rich Gulf, pushing back against claims by Iran, state media reported late Tuesday....
Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip Wednesday in response to rocket fire from the blockaded coastal enclave, as the Israeli military began withdrawing forces from Jenin in the occupied...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The French judiciary rejected a request to return assets linked to Banque du Liban governor Riad Salameh which were seized for...
French investigators issued a second international arrest warrant against former Renault-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in April, a source close to the case told AFP Tuesday....
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
