BEIRUT — The State Security directorate will enforce "severe" punishments against those found guilty of allegedly torturing a Syrian detainee to death last week at a regional office of the security...
BEIRUT — Since December, Lebanese diplomats abroad have been receiving their incomes intermittently due to the lack of foreign currency in Lebanon. However, the Ministry of Finance said in a...
BEIRUT — Delayed supplemental cash payments for public school teachers will be paid by the end of September, caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi said on Monday according to the state-run...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad issued a decree Monday prohibiting hospitals from dismissing emergency room patients in need of care until they find a bed at another hospital. ...
BEIRUT — As tension has flared between Israel and Hezbollah over the disputed Karish gas field, citizens in Lebanon are finding themselves in the emotional turmoil that “every Lebanese goes...
BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is less optimistic about reaching a quick agreement on a revival of the Iran nuclear deal than only a short while ago, he said on Monday. "I am...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Telecommunications Minister Johnny Corm signed four decrees Monday in an effort to improve the working conditions for employees of state-owned telecommunications company Ogero,...
Israeli investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May concluded that she was likely unintentionally shot by an Israeli soldier but was not deliberately targeted,...
BEIRUT — At least 60 passengers of an irregular boat that departed from North Lebanon on Saturday are now out of supplies since being stranded at sea near the Greek and Maltese coasts, a family...
Like many people in crisis-hit Lebanon, Elias Skaff used to wait for hours to withdraw cash at the bank but now prefers money transfer companies as trust in lenders has evaporated. Anyone who...
What if it was renewed this time? A wave of panic swept through Israeli security circles a few weeks ago as a new reality, which they deem unwelcomed, began to emerge. After 15 long months of...
The countdown is on. In 55 days, Michel Aoun will have to leave the Baabda Presidential Palace for the second and last time in his lifetime. The mandate of the “strong president” is ending in pain...
BEIRUT — Telephone and internet outages were reported Monday in Saida and Nabatieh while employees of the public operator Ogero continue their strike. The strike started last Tuesday to demand...
BEIRUT — The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, said that "Lebanon needs a conciliatory president" in an interview published Monday by the daily al-Shark al-Awsat. He reserved the...
BEIRUT — A fire of criminal origin, which broke out on Sunday in a dry grass and wooded area adjacent to the eastern lane of the Damour highway, on the coast of the Chouf region south of Beirut,...
BEIRUT — Gasoline prices increased Monday after Banque du Liban yet again lowered the ratio at which it subsidizes fuel through its Sayrafa exchange platform. Here’s what we know: ...
BEIRUT — A Turkish warship docked in Israel over the weekend for the first time since 2010, amid improving ties between the two countries, officials and witnesses said Sunday. The TCG Kemalreis...
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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
