BEIRUT — Caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury, in a Monday evening interview with Al-Hurra TV, denied that the domestic probe into Banque du Liban (BDL) governor Riad Salameh is obstructing the...
Rarely has a visit by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) general director been surrounded by so much concern. Rafael Grossi’s latest trip to Iran, where he arrived on Friday, took place...
GENEVA — Syria's aging and war-damaged water system around the northwestern province of Aleppo is at risk of collapse after last month's massive earthquake, the International Committee of the Red...
A long-established dispute between members of two rival families, the Darra and the Haidar, degenerated into an exchange of fire in the northern Bekaa Sunday night, leaving one dead and two...
Iran will evade fresh censure by the UN nuclear watchdog after making "concrete" commitments at the weekend to be transparent following the discovery of particles enriched to near weapons-grade,...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on Monday that his party supports the presidential candidacy of Marada Movement leader Sleiman Frangieh. Nasrallah emphasized that his party...
Monday's interrogation session of the main suspect in the Ansar quadruple femicide before the Beirut Criminal Court was marked by high tensions after an announcement postponing the trial until May....
A Lebanese judge has summoned central bank governor Riad Salameh for questioning next week, a judicial official said Monday, as the crisis-hit country advances an embezzlement probe parallel to...
BEIRUT — Dozens of activists held a sit-in Monday morning in front of the Beirut Justice Palace to call on the UN to intervene as the Lebanese investigation into the deadly Beirut port explosion of...
BEIRUT — Dozens of Lebanese flocked on Monday to the General Security offices in Beirut and North Lebanon, on the first day of the new walk-in procedure for the granting of passports. Under this...
A fire broke out Monday afternoon on the top floors of a residential building in Rmeil at the northern edge of the Achrafieh district in Beirut. The fire was under control shortly before 2 p.m....
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has broken his silence and officially launched, on behalf of both the Amal Movement and Hezbollah, a campaign to elect Sleiman Frangieh as head of state.For the first...
Iran on Monday expressed its readiness for a long-awaited prisoner swap with Belgium, days after the European country's Constitutional Court gave the green light for such a move....
ANKARA — Turkey's opposition neared a deal on Monday in which the right-wing IYI Party could return to an alliance that it quit three days ago, opening the way to mounting a united challenge to...
DUBAI — Women violating the Islamic dress code will be punished, Iran's Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said Monday according to the official IRNA news agency, reaffirming the law after...
BEIRUT — Dozens of teachers from the public sector in Lebanon protested on Monday in front of the Education Ministry to protest against the lifting of the strike — which had been going on since...
On Sept. 16, 1982, Israeli Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon arrived in Bikfaya to offer his condolences to the Gemayel family, two days after the assassination of president-elect Bachir and many of...
BEIRUT — MediTrack, a computerized tracking system for drugs used in the treatment of cancer and incurable diseases developed by the Health Ministry, already includes more than 50 subsidized drugs...
RAJM AL-KHALAF, Akkar governorate — Wissam al-Asaad and his extended family were close. They visited each other often, flying the distance between Antakya, where Wissam had a home with his wife...
The head of the UN cultural agency on Monday started a three-day visit to Iraq where many priceless cultural treasures have been damaged or destroyed during decades of conflict....
Iran has sentenced to death six men over attacks carried out by an ethnic Arab "terrorist group" active in a province bordering Iraq, the judiciary said Monday. A court...
DUBAI — Iran's supreme leader said on Monday that the poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls in recent months is an "unforgivable" crime amid spread of suspected poisoning across the country with...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces' Information Division has thwarted two drug smuggling operations and seized 960,000 captagon pills as well as 208 kilograms of hashish, the ISF and caretaker...
ISTANBUL — The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it had decided to fine billionaire Elon Musk 0.1% of Twitter's gross income in Turkey in 2022, as his takeover of the company occurred...
The resumption of classes in public schools in Lebanon, announced by two different unions for Monday after a two-month strike, is likely to be largely boycotted by some teachers, who refuse to...
AMMAN — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in Jordan to begin a three-country Mideast visit, is aiming to reassure key allies of American commitment to the region despite Washington's recent focus...
The Association of Banks in Lebanon on Friday announced that banks will remain open until the end of this week, extending last week’s suspension of their open-ended strike. ABL said that, by...
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
