"Victory is in sight." This was the tone of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on July 24 before the U.S. Congress. Facing increasing international pressure to accept a cease-fire...
Gaza's Civil Defense agency said it received the bodies of 80 unidentified Palestinians from Israel on Monday, which it buried in a mass grave. "We received 80 bodies inside 15 bags, with more...
Lebanese police announced Monday that they have arrested a man for "sexually assaulting a minor in a Syrian refugee camp in Bebnin," northern Lebanon. According to a statement from the General...
A major fire erupted Monday in forests between Shabtin, Mrah al-Hajj, and Alali in the Batroun district, according to our North Lebanon correspondent, Michel Hallak. Winds contributed to the...
U.S. President Joe Biden is due to hold crisis talks with his national security team Monday as fears grow of an Iranian attack on Israel in retaliation for the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran....
BEIRUT – War risk and political violence insurance premiums have considerably increased in the aftermath of an Israeli strike that killed senior Hezbollah commander, Fouad Shukur, in Beirut’s...
BEIRUT — Following the dramatic events that occurred in the region last week, including the assassinations of Hezbollah's top military commander Fouad Shukur in the Southern suburbs of Beirut and...
“Stop bullshitting me!” U.S. President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone on Thursday, Haaretz quoted a U.S. official as saying.Indeed, Biden has every reason to feel...
In war-ravaged Gaza, even the dead cannot rest. Residents of the southern city of Khan Younis said Israeli soldiers have dug up graves on several occasions at the Bani Suhaila cemetery in...
Tokyo led a plunge across Asian and European stock markets Monday, after weak U.S. jobs data fanned fears of a recession in the world's top economy and boosted bets on several Federal Reserve...
Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered the seizure of 100 million shekels ($26 million) of tax funds intended for the Palestinian Authority, saying it would be used to pay...
"I wish that Lebanon could be lent to the UAE for ten years so that they can lead and reform the country in order to return it with healthy structures and a suitable leader. This is what I hope for...
Since many countries have asked their nationals to leave Lebanon and several airlines have limited flights to Beirut, alternative ways have emerged to leave the country. Whether by bus to Amman...
- The consecutive security incidents since Saturday, July 27 including the deadly strike in Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Israeli-annexed Syrian Golan,, the strike in the southern suburbs of...
Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered the seizure of 100 million shekels ($26 million) of tax funds intended for the Palestinian Authority, saying it would be used to pay...
BEIRUT — Hundreds of people fill the streets of Beirut with the sounds of their chants: “[Ghassan] Oueidat listen closely, from the streets, we’ll never leave. To the nitrate government: It’s your...
The health ministry in Gaza said Monday that at least 39,623 people have been killed in nearly 10 months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants. The toll includes...
Iran said Monday it has the "legal right" to respond to the assassination in Tehran last week of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, an attack blamed on Israel amid the Gaza war....
Journalists, analysts and diplomats have been talking about the risk of a full-scale regional war for nearly ten months. By dint of crying wolf, nobody is believing it anymore.But the situation is...
Lebanon's health ministry said two people were killed Monday in an Israeli strike on the country's south, where Hezbollah has been trading near-daily fire with Israel since the start of the Gaza...
The Middle East is gripped by a perilous anticipation. On one front, there is the expected response from Iran and its allies to the assassination of Hamas’ politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran....
BEIRUT — Caretaker Public Health Minister Firas Abiad received 32 tons of emergency aid on Monday from the World Health Organization to Lebanon, which included "medical supplies and medicines...
Salwa* was supposed to travel from Beirut at the end of July for a vacation with her two children. But last Tuesday, a few hours before the strike on a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut,...
21:58 Beirut Time Thank you for following our live updates of the Gaza war and its implications on the region, particularly Lebanon. We will resume our coverage starting...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Aug. 5, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 9 a.m.: Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 5 p.m.: Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan...
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
