BRUSSELS — The European Union's commissioner in charge of the bloc's crisis management condemned on Wednesday an attack by Israeli settlers on a school in Zanuta, a Palestinian village situated...
BEIRUT — The committee of the employees and contract workers of Rafik Hariri University Hospital released a statement on Wednesday announcing a strike on Thursday and the closure of all external...
TEHRAN — Iran launched a capsule designed to carry living beings in a step towards sending astronauts into space, state media reported Wednesday — the latest test of aerospace technology criticized...
Decades after the defunct of Fatahland, is Lebanon heading toward Hamasland? Faced with international pressure to halt its military operations on the southern front and withdraw its al-Radwan...
Israel's military said Wednesday it found a major arms depot "in the heart of a civilian population" in Gaza, and seized or destroyed missiles, grenades, drones and other weapons....
The UN rights chief voiced deep concern on Wednesday over allegations of sexual violence by Hamas militants during their Oct. 7 attack, calling on Israel to allow his team in to investigate....
We are revisiting this article on the occasion of an explosion in the area of Msharafieh, a southern suburb of Beirut, that killed the deputy leader of Hamas' political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri....
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Ministry of Health released updated figures Tuesday of those killed, injured and displaced in southern Lebanon since the beginning of the cross-border attacks between...
"Mabrouk to Lebanon and to all lovers of manousheh," said Sahar Baassiri, the Lebanese ambassador to The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on X (formerly...
With the war resuming in Gaza following a week-long truce, the Kfir brigade, which usually operates in the West Bank to combat “Palestinian terrorism,” entered the Palestinian enclave for the first...
BEIRUT — The head of Lebanon's Higher Judicial Council, Souheil Abboud, has sounded an alarm about the potential collapse of the country's judicial system, highlighting the persistent issue of...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces leader Samer Geagea on Wednesday criticized the creation of a new Hamas fighting unit in Lebanon, saying the newly announced force "undermines Lebanon's sovereignty."...
Maya Ammous, a 37-year-old who has been living in Dubai for the last 13 years with her 5-year-old son, is the creative force behind the Instagram and TikTok accounts, @thekitcheneditor, where she...
Former governor of Banque du Liban (BDL) Riad Salameh, against whom two Interpol arrest warrants have been issued, is suspected of having jumped onto a plane to an Arab country almost a month and a...
GENEVA – United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk warned on Wednesday there was a heightened risk of atrocity crimes in Gaza, urging parties involved to refrain from committing such...
Last Wednesday, a drone launched from Yemen by the Iran-allied Houthi's was shot down by a US military vessel sailing in the southern Red Sea. “At approximately 11:00 a.m. Sanaa time,” the USS...
CHTOURA, Bekaa — In the Lebanese town of Chtoura, east Lebanon, Abdallah and his family, originally from Syria, huddle inside a sparsely furnished room of the former dental clinic that has become...
A Tehran court has ordered the US government to pay nearly $50 billion in damages for assassinating a top Iranian general nearly four years ago, the judiciary said on Wednesday....
Israeli army says "Red Cross must have access to hostages" held in Gaza
It’s akin to wearing a Google Glass; images are replayed in front of your eyes as though projected from a screen, even when I’m not looking at my phone anymore. The ones flickering across my...
Israeli forces were encircling southern Gaza's main city on Wednesday, battling Hamas militants through streets and buildings in some of the most intense combat of the two-month war....
Within an apartment in northern Tehran, concealed from the public eye, Sean proudly showcases the tattoo motifs crafted by his students, each meticulously etched onto silicon canvases....
Mohammed Hamid Nour is only 23, but he is already nostalgic for how Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes once were before drought dried them up, decimating his herd of water buffaloes....
Members of the Iranian security forces raped and used other forms of sexual violence against women and men detained in the crackdown on nationwide protests that erupted from Sept. 2022, Amnesty...
The US aid chief on Tuesday announced new support for the war-battered Gaza Strip on a visit to Egypt, as a renewed Israeli offensive again puts Palestinians at risk....
The United States said Tuesday it would refuse visas for extremist Israeli settlers behind a wave of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, as it also asked Israel to do more to spare...
Israeli forces on Tuesday killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, with an advocacy group reporting dozens of arrests in army raids over 48 hours....
22:11 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage on day 61 of the Hamas-Israel war. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis, right here at L'Orient...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday's LIVE coverage of Day 60 of the Israel-Hamas war here . Israeli shelling killed a Lebanese Army...
For almost two months now, many have listened to and read news from journalists stationed in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza. From al-Jazeera to Reuters to Instagram, on-the-ground reports were...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
