SOUTH LEBANON — In a move reminiscent of its widespread bombing campaign in Lebanon during last year's all-out war, Israel released five evacuation orders for five different villages across...
NEW YORK — The United Nations Security Council removed sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Thursday. Sharaa, who has been leading a campaign of international diplomacy in an attempt...
AMMAN/DAMASCUS — The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel, six...
BEIRUT — Druze leader and former head of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Walid Joumblatt released a statement on Thursday saying that he hopes Lebanese leaders will work to prevent the...
BEIRUT — Investigating Judge Zaher Hamadeh at the Beirut Court of Justice decided on Thursday to lift the travel ban on Hannibal Gaddafi and reduce his bail from $11 million to $900,000 The son...
WASHINGTON — Kazakhstan is expected to be announced on Thursday night as the latest country to join the Abraham Accords that have normalized relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations, a...
BEIRUT — The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on Thursday on three Hezbollah financiers who "facilitated funneling tens of...
TRIPOLI — Elie Daher, one of the three candidates running for head of the Tripoli Bar Association presidency, announced on Thursday he is withdrawing from the race. Daher was set to run in the...
BEIRUT — The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates announced that the UAE's ambassador to Lebanon, Fahd al-Kaabi, presented his credentials to President Joseph Aoun on Thursday, during an...
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The United States has proposed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that would lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at...
This week's agenda looks a lot like what you might find yourself talking about next time you visit your grandmother's house: hot summer days, fertility, restrictive nature and hair....
A wedding held inside Lebanon’s famed Jeita Grotto (Kesrouan district) has stirred public outrage this week after images and videos of the event surfaced on social media, prompting the government...
BEIRUT — Thursday's Cabinet meeting kicked off on Thursday afternoon with two contentious topics — Hezbollah's disarmament and the diaspora voting law — set to occupy the day's agenda....
The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel, six sources familiar...
"It took us nine months to write these fifteen minutes," Nadim Chammas, co-writer with Samah al-Kadi of the short film "Baadarane", told L’Orient-Le Jour. This cinematic gem is...
What do these black and white tailored ensembles — structured 1980s blazers, floral prints, English lace with arabesques, flowing caftans and bermuda shorts, caryatid pleats, crystal embroideries,...
Ahead of a new Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, partly devoted to restoring the state's arms monopoly and the disarmament of non-state groups, Hezbollah sent an open letter...
Pope Leo XIV received Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday for the first time, amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, nearly a month after the cease-fire took effect....
BEIRUT — Teleskope, a start-up founded and led by Lebanese entrepreneur Elizabeth Nammour, announced Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding, bringing the total raised since its...
Reluctant to speak publicly since taking office last spring, BDL Governor Karim Souhaid delivered on Wednesday an extensive defense of his positions on financial reforms during an unprecedented...
Will Donald Trump continue to come to Benjamin Netanyahu’s rescue until he wins the election? His remarks certainly come at a convenient time, as Israel is set to hold its parliamentary elections...
The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to facilitate a security pact that Washington is negotiating between Syria and Israel, six sources familiar...
Although he had previously expressed his support for the disarmament of non-state groups operating inside Lebanon, the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Gebran Bassil, has now aligned...
Six days before the elections scheduled for Nov. 11, and amid sharp regional tensions between Iran and Israel, a huge blast shook a compound belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) south...
Through "Éclaireuses [Pioneers]: The Exhibition," visitors can discover twelve graphic portraits of women in science at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), a center...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah reaffirmed on Thursday its "legitimate right to resist [Israeli] occupation." It also reiterated its support for the Lebanese Army. Hezbollah also said that, while...
Egypt's former tourism and antiquities minister Khaled El-Enany is set to be confirmed as head of UNESCO on Thursday, despite criticism from heritage groups that he had failed to protect...
Saudi envoy Prince Yazid bin Farhan will be in Beirut tomorrow at the head of a large "high-level" Saudi delegation, according to local television station a l-Jadeed . According to...
Detained for more than three years in Iran, much of it in Evin prison in Tehran, the French citizens Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris were released on conditional terms on Tuesday, Nov. 4. They are...
In his blacksmith workshop located in a Damascus suburb, Ghassan Aama fumes over the Syrian authorities’ decision to sharply hike electricity prices, nearly a year after President Bashar al-Assad’s...
Despite the "cease-fire" agreements in Lebanon and Gaza, the Israeli brought war has not truly ended. The unbroken drone of military drones and reconnaissance aircraft still resonates, as...
President Donald Trump's administration has revoked around 80,000 non-immigrant visas since its inauguration on Jan. 20 for offenses ranging from driving under the influence to assault and...
The United States on Wednesday presented a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to partner nations aimed at bolstering President Donald Trump's plan for Gaza, including by green-lighting an...
22:01 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage of events for today. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow morning to pick up where we left off. Goodnight....
In the packed Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Zohran Mamdani delivered the most striking victory speech of his young career.Introducing himself as "young, Muslim and a democratic socialist,"...
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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
