BEIRUT — Lebanon and Israel are at "a critical stage" in negotiations to demarcate their shared maritime border and "gaps have narrowed," a US official said on Thursday. "We remain committed to...
DUBAI — A Hamas delegation will visit Syria later this month, two sources told Reuters on Thursday, in a move by the Palestinian Islamist group to rebuild ties after shunning President Bashar...
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on seven Iranian officials over the shutdown of internet access and the crackdown on peaceful protesters following the death of...
Iran has charged former football star Ali Karimi in absentia for his support for protests over Mahsa Amini’s death in morality police custody, Iranian media have reported. A wave of unrest has...
BEIRUT —The Anti-Narcotics Division of Lebanese customs managed to seize about 1.8 million Captagon pills hidden in industrial equipment intended to be exported to Tunisia through the port of...
BEIRUT — The head of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil shared the list of criteria he believes the next president of Lebanon should meet, but didn’t present a name, during a press...
It has been about two years since most people in Lebanon have been forced to rely almost entirely on private generators, whose owners set very high prices. The reasons for this problem, inseparable...
BEIRUT — Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the Israeli Defense Forces on Thursday to prepare for an "escalation" on the northern border with Lebanon after Israel rejected revisions, suggested by...
BEIRUT - Lebanon has recorded its first case of cholera since 1993, likely the result of a serious outbreak in neighboring Syria crossing the porous border between the countries, caretaker Health...
BEIRUT — Lebanon is experiencing a spate of holdups by depositors demanding access to their own funds. These depositors risk incurring lawsuits from banks and public prosecutors, but there is...
BEIRUT — For the second time in one year, stray bullets, “most likely from a Kalashnikov-type” gun, landed "in the premises" of the Japanese ambassador to Lebanon’s house, the ambassador tweeted in...
BEIRUT — Robert Saliba, an architect, urban designer and professor at the American University of Beirut who became a leading authority on Beirut’s architectural and urban history, passed away...
DUBAI — Iranian state television aired a video Thursday in which two French citizens detained for "spying" in Iran appeared to confess to acting on behalf of a French security service, amid weeks...
STOCKHOLM — French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of...
From the entrance hall, the stage is set. On the left, there is a photo of Gamal Abdel Nasser greeting the masses in Alexandria, as well as an illustration of the legendary Egyptian singer Oum...
BEIRUT — Ex-Customs Director Badri Daher, who has been detained following the Aug. 4, 2020 port explosion, has been ordered to be released in a separate case regarding his request to lift a travel...
BEIRUT — A new bank holdup was underway Thursday in a Bank Med branch in Nabatieh, South Lebanon, by an armed client claiming his own money, which has been illegally blocked by his bank. According...
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT — Lebanon said US-brokered talks to demarcate its maritime border with longtime foe Israel were at a "make or break" point on Thursday after Israel rejected revisions to a draft...
BEIRUT — Young Lebanese Sali Hafiz, who held up a branch of Blom Bank in Beirut on Sept. 14, and her sister Ikram who is the depositor in the bank, were released Thursday on a LL1 million...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday called for a second election session on Oct. 13 at 11 a.m. to elect a successor to the President of the Republic Michel Aoun, two weeks...
QAMISHLI — A rare US helicopter raid on a government-held village in Syria's northeast killed an Islamic State official hiding out there on Thursday, two security sources said. The United States...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati on Thursday, following his visit to the Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai, defended himself of any "sectarianism" in the government formation process...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new increased fuel prices on Thursday morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL699,000, up by LL7,000...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Depositors are on the verge of committing arson against bank owners, lawyers’ collective Mouttahidoun founder Rami Olleik told...
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking a return to power in elections next month, left the hospital Thursday following a night of observation after feeling ill while...
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
