A marketing campaign featuring a Lebanese flag with a red-barred cedar tree above Martyrs' Square in downtown Beirut has sparked widespread outrage. The controversy led to strong criticism from...
BEIRUT — Telecommunications Minister Charles Hage assured that the government has set the objective of forming the telecoms regulatory authority, an entity provided for by a 2002 law (law 431 on...
BEIRUT — Activists have raised alarms over an escalating bird poaching crisis in Lebanon's Akkar region, located in the country's far north. Animal protection advocate Ghina Nahfawi...
Nearly 100 days after the truce between Israel and Hezbollah, tensions in southern Lebanon persist, as the agreement has failed to deliver its expected results. The deal, brokered by former U.S....
BEIRUT — A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Lebanon mission chief Ernesto Ramirez-Rigo, will visit Beirut from March 10 to 14 to discuss economic reforms and...
BEIRUT — On Thursday, the Lebanese Army denounced the "persistence of the Israeli enemy" in its attacks on Lebanese territory, which continue despite the cease-fire taking effect on Nov. 27, 2024,...
BEIRUT — A fire broke out Thursday in a Syrian refugee camp at the entrance to the village of al-Marj in the Bekaa Valley, destroying a tent. The blaze, reportedly caused by an electrical...
BEIRUT — U.S. Representative Greg Steube reintroduced the "PAGER Act" on Wednesday, a bill that seeks to suspend U.S. aid to the Lebanese Army until Lebanon’s government revokes its recognition of...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army is preparing to allow groups of ultra-orthodox Jews to visit what is traditionally considered the tomb of Rabbi Rav Ashi, located in Lebanese territory near the ...
BEIRUT — A personal dispute turned violent in Tripoli on Thursday, leaving one person critically injured, according to our correspondent in North Lebanon. In the al-Qubba area of the city, a...
On Tuesday, Arab countries proposed an alternative to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Gazans from the enclave and place the territory under U.S. control. The 22 member states of the...
They hesitate, struggle and fight against gravity before finally washing ashore — heads down, legs up, stretched toward the sky, suspended upside down, much like the lives of so many Lebanese.The...
Nearly three months after the collapse of his regime, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continues to be ridiculed by Syrians, even on television. A commercial from a local chocolate brand...
The Lebanese banking lobby has maintained significant influence throughout the five-year crisis, positioning itself as a bulwark against any restructuring likely to threaten its interests. Under...
Mines and unexploded ordnances in Syria have killed or injured at least 188 children over the past three months, a growing threat as families return home, the NGO Save the Children said Thursday....
FLOODFollowing massive traffic jams caused by heavy rainfall that flooded several roads in Beirut and its surroundings, Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transport, Fayez Rasamny, announced on...
BEIRUT — The Minister of Public Works, Fayez Rassamni, will launch on Friday morning the Automated Border Control (ABC) Gates project at Beirut's airport, consisting of the installation of 30...
Turkey demanded on Thursday that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) lay down arms "immediately and unconditionally," a week after a call from its leader to dissolve the movement. This...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced on Thursday that it arrested on Monday a gang that was carrying out robberies near the airport road in Beirut's southern suburbs. The arrested...
In a region undergoing upheaval since Oct. 7 and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the Druze community finds itself in the spotlight. Following armed clashes on Feb. 28 between a Druze militia...
It's the same story at the start of every presidential term. Since the 1990s, the idea of establishing a “national defense strategy” has always resurfaced after the election of a president. The...
BEIRUT — In its first official meeting, after gaining the Parliament's vote of confidence last week, the Lebanese Cabinet approved the 2025 budget by decree and passed a bill to exempt...
One in four countries report backlash on women’s rights in 2024, according to a report published Thursday by U.N. Women, which highlighted weakened democratic institutions, new technologies and...
Lebanon’s academic sector is in turmoil, with some 6,000 students left in limbo as their degrees remain unvalidated by authorities due to university fraud. The Ministry of Education and Higher...
It is a vibrant story, tinged with nostalgia and poetry, that slowly weaves around an old friendship between Karen Klink and Abdallah Hatoum. With their first collaboration titled...
The positive sentiment in the private sector sparked by the election of Joseph Aoun and the appointment of Nawaf Salam as prime minister remained steady in February. This is the main takeaway from...
The Lebanese Army reported the arrest of six individuals and the seizure of a "quantity of smuggled goods," according to a statement relayed by the state-run National News Agency (NNA)....
Deputy Prime Minister, Tarek Mitri, denied Wednesday claims that the United States, Israel and Lebanon came to a "tacit agreement" that allows the Israeli army to continue occupying at...
Four smugglers were killed by Jordanian border guards at dawn as they attempted to cross the country's northern border in the eastern area, according to the Jordanian national news agency,...
Following an interview with former MP Nawaf Moussawi, who is responsible for the resources and borders file within Hezbollah, where he criticized the party's conduct during the war with...
The 27 EU countries and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are meeting Thursday for an extraordinary summit on Ukraine, aimed at reassuring the country and strengthening European defense...
22:55 Beirut Time Thank you for following our live coverage of major developments in the region. We will resume reporting tomorrow. 22:54 Beirut Time...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Catch up on yesterday's live coverage.Thursday, March 6, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 11 a.m.:...
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
