BEIRUT — The Association of Travel and Tourism Agents (ATTAL) warned about the existence of "fake, unlicensed offices that carry out fraudulent operations on people wishing to travel or take...
BEIRUT — Caretaker minister of the interior, Bassam Mawlawi, announced to the parliamentary defense committee on Wednesday that elections for municipal councils and mukhtars will indeed be held on...
MARJAYOUN – An escalation of fighting on Lebanon's southern border would further strain hospitals already struggling with a lack of money in a national financial crisis, the Middle East chief of...
BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib presented on Wednesday Lebanon's vision for achieving "sustainable stability and calm" on the Lebanese southern border during...
Hezbollah on Wednesday held a funeral in southern Lebanon for two of its members and a woman, all members of the same family, who were killed in an Israeli strike the day before....
A missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels hit a bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, with the crew reporting at least two dead and six wounded, a US official said....
A video posted on the TikTok social network shows a man opening a wooden crate and ruthlessly pulling out a chained lion cub. The young animal is clearly panicked: It rebels against the man, who...
To mark National Nature Reserves Day, the Ministry of the Environment is opening access to all legally classified nature reserve sites in Lebanon, free of charge, on Sunday, March 10. This...
BEIRUT — “This is the tradition that I’ve spent my life studying religiously, daily, for a decade. This is my backbone.” Pianist and composer Tarek Yamani is talking about jazz, in the tradition...
“The Israelis are testing the waters,” said a source with close ties to Hezbollah, referring to the two unconfirmed attempted Israeli incursions into southern Lebanon on Sunday evening, which the...
In its annual report on mental health in Lebanon, published on Mar. 1, Embrace, a non-governmental organization, highlights a distressing trend: a 21.7-percent increase in deaths by suicide in 2023...
On Wednesday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health published its latest assessment on the clashes between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon. Based on hospital data up to and including March 5,...
On Wednesday, the Office of the Presidency of the Lebanese government published the official schedule that will come into force for most administrations, public institutions and municipalities...
The Israeli government has pushed forward construction plans for 3,500 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a hardline minister said Wednesday. The administrative step...
In times of escalating tension between Israel and Hezbollah, marked by Israel's increasingly deep strikes extending beyond the border strip, it's crucial to recognize that warfare extends far...
Whether directing traffic or controlling prices, a group of vigilantes is determined to uphold order as five months of war have shattered any semblance of normalcy in Gaza's southernmost city of...
Fear stalks the usually quiet Palestinian small town of Dura in the occupied West Bank, which has seen a rise in Israeli military operations since the Gaza war broke out....
Iranian authorities have confiscated the American cargo of an oil tanker seized last year after US-led sanctions prevented the entry of medication into the Islamic Republic, the judiciary said...
Gunmen thought to be linked to the Islamic State group in Syria killed 18 people searching for truffles in the desert Wednesday, a war monitor said. More than 50 people...
A UN humanitarian official warned on Wednesday that funding challenges might restrict aid to Syrians, during a visit to the country set to mark 13 years of civil war....
At a bar in Richmond, Virginia, Mariam was called a terrorist for the first time because she wore a gold pendant depicting the map of Palestine. "I was escorted out of the bar because I started...
A group of United Nations experts on Wednesday urged Britain to repatriate a woman stripped of her citizenship after leaving the country aged 15 to marry an Islamic State fighter....
We are republishing this article, originally published in Yes Magazine (US), as part of our collaboration with the Human Journalism Network program to share solutions-focused stories from around...
A Barbados-flagged, US-owned bulk carrier was struck Wednesday southwest of the Yemeni port city of Aden, triggering a naval operation to rescue the crew, a maritime security firm said. ...
On Wednesday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health deplored delays in the delivery of cancer and chronic disease drugs, which it distributes to patients at reduced prices, due to the two-week strike by...
At a time when the United States is calling for a bailout and reform of President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority (PA) so that it can manage the post-conflict period between Hamas and...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held a consultative meeting at the Grand Serail Wednesday with ambassadors of donor countries, during which he urged them to continue funding the...
BEIRUT — Outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati stated that in his opinion, Hezbollah is indeed focused on containing the fighting at the Lebanon-Israel border, during an interview with...
On Monday evening, for the third time since cross-border fighting began between Israel and Hezbollah, a medical facility in southern Lebanon was targeted, killing three paramedics. The vast...
The Lebanese Army is deployed in southern Lebanon amid cross-fire but seems to be absent from the landscape. Since the beginning of the conflagration on the front, the army has kept a low profile,...
We are sharing this article, originally published in L'Economiste in Morocco, as part of our collaboration with the Spark News Towards Equality Initiative for International Women’s Day. ...
A report published by the UN on Monday concluded that despite “limited survivor and witness testimony, limited forensic evidence” and “minimal crime scene processing, and the very limited forensic...
On Wednesday morning, the Israeli military announced that its forces had killed more than 20 Hamas fighters in the last 24 hours, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The military claims the...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary-General, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said there's a "90 percent chance" that the cross-border fighting with Israel will not evolve into a large-scale war in the...
BEIRUT — When Christina*, a woman in her 30s, began feeling short of breath and suffering a severe cough this past January, she went to the doctor for help. After several tests and scans, that...
We are sharing this article, originally published in Folha de S. Paulo in Brazil, as part of our collaboration with the Spark News Towards Equality Initiative for International Women’s Day. Well,...
LONDON — Britain will warn Israel on Wednesday that its patience is running thin over the "dreadful suffering" in Gaza, where a lack of aid is leading people to die of hunger, foreign minister...
21:15 Beirut Time This concludes our coverage for today. Be sure to return tomorrow for more live coverage of the war in Gaza and its regional impact. Goodnight! 21:04...
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