Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, July 7 2026 Some key things to watch today:10 a.m.: Grand Mufti of Lebanon Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian receives UNHCR...
Crowds of Iranians marched through the streets of Tehran on Monday in a funeral procession for slain leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the biggest day yet in a week of massive memorial ceremonies...
French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Syria on Monday, Syria's state news agency said, in the first visit to Damascus by a European Union head of state since rebels led by President Ahmad...
French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Syria on Monday to meet President Ahmad al-Sharaa, and U.S. President Donald Trump's trip to Turkey for the NATO summit on Tuesday, where he is...
Lebanese officials rejected claims made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Christian villages in south Lebanon asked to be annexed by Israel."No village in the South has made...
President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States would either reach a deal with Iran or "finish the job," renewing his threat of military action as Tehran projects defiance...
BEIRUT — The British daily The Guardian reported that a UK charity has helped fund a religious school at the center of plans to expand the Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian city of...
A U.N. human rights body on Monday called Israel's detention of Gazan doctor Hussam Abu Safiya arbitrary and sought his immediate release as rights groups and his lawyer warned that his life...
BEIRUT — The leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, on Monday called on Druze leader Walid Joumblatt to move beyond the armistice signed between Lebanon and Israel in 1949, at a time...
Billboards along Lebanon's highways and at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport celebrating July 4 sparked backlash on social media over the past few days. "Happy 4th of...
BEIRUT — Israeli bombings have killed at least 4,319 people and wounded 12,203 others across Lebanon since the resumption of the war on March 2, the Health Ministry said in its latest official...
BEIRUT — For the first time in nearly a week, daily Israeli drone strikes killed several people in southern Lebanon on Monday, while Israeli demolition operations continued in six occupied...
President Joseph Aoun on Monday said that pressure must be applied on Israel to withdraw because the continuation of its occupation of southern Lebanon "undermines the legitimacy of the state...
In the aftermath of WWII, Washington was not yet seeking to rule the Middle East. At times, it even hoped that London and Paris would continue to shoulder part of the burden there. But the old...
The Israeli government said Sunday it would ignore a High Court ruling regarding a broadcasting regulator, marking a direct challenge to the authority of Israel's highest judicial body. The...
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called for a global governance system to ensure artificial intelligence benefits humanity, warning against allowing the technology itself to...
The Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip announced Monday that it had dissolved its administration, nearly 20 years after taking power in the Palestinian enclave, paving the way for a...
There are military occupations. And there are also more insidious occupations. Those that end up colonizing consciences, until they determine not only the wars a people must fight, but also the...
During a meeting with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Presidential Palace on Monday, CMA CGM Chairman and CEO Rodolph Saade expressed the group's desire to expand its investments in Lebanon...
FIFA cleared U.S. star striker Folarin Balogun to play in the World Cup co-hosts' showdown with Belgium despite his red-card ban after a personal phone call from President Donald Trump, it...
Reported by several local media outlets, the incursion was carried out by activists from a movement called "Pioneers of Bashan." It prompted an intervention by the Israeli army, which...
In the wake of the signing of the Lebanon–Israel framework agreement in Washington, the Lebanese Army has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Presented with a fait accompli, it is now...
The funeral procession for Iran's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei began in Tehran on Monday, state television reported, as authorities prepared for crowds that could rival those that turned...
21:27 Beirut Time Israeli forces blow up houses in Haddatha, south Lebanon The Israeli army demolished houses in Haddatha, according to our correspondent in south Lebanon....
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War … Our war … Endless cycle of tears and blood. Each photo from this period, from 1975 to 1990, tells a story of pain, suffering, and an unending nightmare. Even those taken during family...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, July 6, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz Some key things to watch today:11 a.m. Signing of a memorandum of understanding between...
Seven OPEC+ members decided on Sunday to again raise oil production quotas as Gulf countries reel from the Middle East war. Ministers from key OPEC+ countries Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait,...
