Iran's U.N. ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani on Friday said that U.S.-Israeli strikes have killed 1,332 Iranian civilians and thousands more have been injured. He made his comments while speaking...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Friday they had targeted a U.S. base in the UAE that they alleged had been used as a launchpad for a strike on a school. According to Iranian authorities, a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced support for an "immediate" cease-fire in Iran during a phone call with Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday, the Kremlin said....
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah spent months restocking its arsenal of rockets and drones, using support from Iran and its own weapons factories to prepare for a new war with Israel, six sources...
Yesterday, at around 2:30 p.m. local time, the Israeli army issued an unprecedented evacuation order for all of Beirut’s southern suburbs, or Dahieh, as locals refer to it. A few hours later, a...
From the roof of an unfinished house, Abou Wael traced the geography of Silat al-Dahr with his fingertips. In front of him lay the Israeli settlement of Sanour; behind, Homesh; and between the two,...
The headquarters of Ghana's United Nations peacekeeping battalion in Lebanon was hit by missile attacks on Friday, leaving two soldiers critically injured, Ghana's armed forces said in a...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam received a call from Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who expressed "his support for the Lebanese people in these difficult times." Sharaa said that...
Several airlines announced Friday that they have extended the suspension of their flights to Beirut and other Middle Eastern destinations, amid the ongoing regional war waged by the United States...
An Israeli strike hit the outskirts of the archaeological site of Sour, a Phoenician landmark listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, on Friday around 4 p.m. While the ancient ruins appear to have...
BEIRUT — Israel launched at least nine strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday, in addition to the 11 that occurred overnight. The attacks were on the neighborhoods of Jamous, between...
Amid yet another living nightmare in Lebanon — a reality that eclipses even our bleakest predictions of what Israel might inflict next — words pale, then fail, especially to those in the thick of...
Highly capable Iran-linked hacking groups have widened their activities across the region since the U.S. and Israel attacked last weekend, experts argue, although disruption from the war may limit...
Aid agency the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said Friday that 300,000 people in Lebanon had been forced to flee after Israel launched a wave of evacuation orders and airstrikes. The aid agency...
The Israeli military on Friday said Hezbollah had fired around 70 rockets toward Israel since midnight, many of them from southern Lebanon. "After midnight yesterday, around 70 rockets were...
Israeli air strikes battered Lebanon on Friday, sending the death toll since Monday up to at least 217, according to Lebanese authorities, as Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned "a humanitarian...
Since Hezbollah entered the ongoing war, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has remained silent. When journalists asked him for comments on the developments on the first day, he replied: "No...
BEIRUT — Deputy Parliament Speaker Elias Bou Saab said Friday after a meeting of Parliament’s bureau that there is “consensus” to extend its mandate by two years, a situation he said is “justified”...
Diplomatic efforts, particularly those led by France, have so far failed to produce any results in ending Israel’s war against Lebanon. Israel insists on continuing the fighting until it achieves...
BEIRUT — French President Emmanuel Macron’s special envoy to Lebanon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on Friday denounced Hezbollah’s responsibility in the armed conflict in the Middle East, saying it “played...
Iran's police chief Ahmad Radan said on Friday that officers had been authorised to shoot at suspected looters amid the war with Israel and the United States. "Because we are in wartime...
Chiefs of Defense of the 32 NATO countries convened in a virtual meeting on Friday to be briefed on the evolving situation in the Middle East, NATO's military committee chair Admiral Giuseppe...
19:25 Beirut Time Thank you for joining us That’s it for today. Once again, we apologize for not being able to answer all your questions. But we will be launching another Q&A...
Some believe that there is, in this war, something that is different from the previous one. From south of the Litani to Beirut's southern suburbs, including villages in the Bekaa, Israeli calls...
BEIRUT — Nine Israeli strikes targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday, after the area was threatened the previous day by the Israeli military, after calling for the evacuation of four of...
Qatar on Friday said its naval forces were inside buildings targeted by Iran in Bahrain overnight, though they were unharmed, after Manama reported attacks on residential buildings and a hotel....
Around 50,000 Syrians living in Lebanon have fled back over the border into Syria in the past week, the United Nations' migration agency said Friday. The war in the Middle East spread to...
SOUTH LEBANON — Five people were killed and seven others injured Friday in an Israeli strike on a Makassed building, a Sunni non-profit organization, in Saida, the largest city in southern Lebanon,...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices saw a significant increase in Lebanon on Friday, against the backdrop of regional conflict that sent global prices surging this week. According to the pricing published by...
BEIRUT — Since the start of the Hezbollah-Israel escalation, Damascus has reportedly been concerned that Hezbollah might launch attacks from Syrian territory and is said to have ordered its...
Since Saturday, even before Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel, plunging the country back into an open conflict, Lebanese authorities implemented measures to prevent a spike in demand for dollar and...
The United Nations rights chief stressed Friday the need for "impartial investigations" into a strike on a school in Iran, urging the U.S. to move "very quickly" with its...
Iran threatened on Friday to target "all the facilities" of the Kurdistan region in Iraq if militants were allowed to enter the Islamic republic. "So far only the bases of the...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned Friday of a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Lebanon as tens of thousands of people have been displaced, fleeing Israeli strikes on southern...
BEIRUT — An Israeli strike on an apartment in Saida, southern Lebanon, has killed four and injured two, according to a preliminary toll obtained from medical and local sources by our correspondent....
The United States appears to have realized that a regime change would require a ground offensive in Iran. And since they do not intend to send any American soldiers on the ground, they have decided...
Maersk, one of the world's biggest container shipping groups, said on Friday it has temporarily suspended two services linking the Middle East to Asia and Europe as the Iran conflict continues...
BEIRUT — Southern Lebanon, North Bekaa and Beirut’s southern suburbs endured a night from hell Thursday evening to Friday morning, targeted by dozens of airstrikes carried out by Israel against...
“Our position in Yemen … is full solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Abdul Malik al-Houthi on Feb. 28, the day the U.S.-Israeli offensive against Tehran began.To express this...
Qatar's energy minister Saad al-Kaabi said that even if the war ended immediately it would take Qatar "weeks to months" to return to a normal cycle of deliveries, he told the...
Residents of Dubai received an Emirati interior ministry alert on their phones on Friday urging them to shelter from potential missile threats, AFP correspondents reported, as Iran pressed on...
The Lebanese playwright and screenwriter Antoine Ghandour, born on April 5, 1942, in Ain Aalaq, in the Metn region, passed away on Thursday, March 5, leaving behind a prolific body of work that...
An Iranian official said Friday that at least 20 people had been killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes in the Shiraz metropolitan area in the south of the country. AFP was unable to independently...
"Several dozen officers" from Iran's Revolutionary Guards have reportedly left Beirut over the last two days, according to information obtained Friday by U.S. news outlet Axios from...
Israel carried out heavy air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut and started a "broad-scale" wave of attacks against infrastructure in Tehran on Friday, while Iran targeted the...
Caught in a vise, the Gulf monarchies did everything possible to avert such a scenario, yet the war has overtaken them. Since Saturday, Feb. 28, they have faced unprecedented daily Iranian attacks,...
BEIRUT — After carrying out eleven strikes on the southern suburb of Beirut overnight Thursday into Friday, the Israeli military said it targeted the "executive council headquarters" of...
Around 50 French ships are currently blocked in the Persian Gulf and another eight in the Red Sea, France's Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said on Friday, as Paris seeks support to build a...
Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East: Israel targets 'regime infrastructure' Israel said it launched a wave of strikes on Tehran early Friday, targeting...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, March 6, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today: 10 a.m.: Economy Minister Amer Bisat chairs a...
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
