Israeli strikes on Iran's largest petrochemical complex Israel said it had carried out strikes on the largest petrochemical complex in southern Iran, "a key target that accounts for about...
A Gaza hospital said clashes and Israeli airstrikes killed at least 10 people on Monday near a school sheltering displaced people in the centre of the Palestinian territory. The incident is the...
BEIRUT — Syrian Foreign Minister Assad Shibani said that he spoke by phone with his Lebanese counterpart Nawaf Salam, in an exchange that focused on "the rapid developments in the region and...
BEIRUT — Catholic Easter Monday was as violent as the previous Sunday, with Israel continuing its bombardment of Beirut's southern suburbs, south Lebanon and the Bekaa, according to our...
Ain Saadeh, perched on the heights of Metn, had long been a quiet neighborhood. On Easter Monday morning, the streets of this town east of Beirut were deserted. Soldiers stood guard in front of a...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Israel of undermining all efforts to halt the war in the Middle East, but said Ankara would continue to pursue any opportunity to advance a...
What L’Orient-Le Jour has learnedThe deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump for Iran to agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war is approaching Tuesday evening, amid mounting...
Two blasts were heard near Erbil airport, which hosts advisers from the U.S.-led anti-jihadist coalition, in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, an AFP journalist said on Monday. Since the...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that a proposal for a cease-fire in the Iran war was a "very significant step," but not enough yet to end the conflict. Trump's comments came...
Since the start of the war, Zoya* has watched the unsettling movement of the sky from her window, which is taped with adhesive strips to prevent the glass from shattering in the event of a nearby...
Until now, tensions had remained largely latent. The killing on Sunday of Pierre Moawad, a senior Lebanese Forces official, in a targeted Israeli strike on the Christian locality of Ain Saade has...
BEIRUT— Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar met with security officials on Monday to review Lebanon’s overall security situation amid ongoing Israeli attacks and assess measures being implemented across...
BEIRUT — In its latest update on the war’s toll, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported Monday that 1,497 people have been killed in Israeli attacks between March 2 and April 6, with 4,639 others...
Israeli strikes on petrochemical complexes in Iran, including South Pars Iranian news agency Fars reported explosions at the South Pars petrochemical complex in the southern port city of...
BEIRUT — A few hours after an unprecedented Israeli strike on a residential building in a Christian area of Metn — long considered relatively safe since the war between Israel and Hezbollah resumed...
BEIRUT — The Director General of General Security, Hassan Choucair, visiting the Masnaa border crossing on Monday — the most important crossing point between Lebanon and Syria — denied Israeli...
BEIRUT — Nawaf Salam on Monday received a call from Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, who expressed support for Lebanon's "territorial integrity and the decisions of the Lebanese government,...
BEIRUT — Fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli army has intensified over the past 48 hours in Bint Jbeil as Israeli troops appear to have invaded several surrounding villages, including Rshaf...
SAIDA — Health Minister Rakan Nasreddine visited Saida Governmental Hospital as part of his tour of public hospitals in the city to assess their situation and explore ways to support them amid the...
Israel struck Iran's largest petrochemical complex at Asaluyeh on Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said, in what he described as a severe economic blow to Tehran. Several...
On social media, a young man, his gaze full of tenderness, asks his grandmother questions. Looking into the camera, he shares her answers."We're fine, we're fine, don't worry about...
The International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday said it can confirm recent impacts of military strikes close to Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, but said that the plant itself was not...
Here is a provisional tally of the number of people Israel killed overnight and this morning in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa, according to a count made by L'Orient-Le Jour based on reports of...
The imagery of our army evacuating posts in the south while leaving behind villagers unwilling to abandon their homes in the face of Hezbollah-Israeli conflict and Israeli incursions raises an...
Four people were killed in the port city of Haifa after what Israeli media said was an Iranian missile strike that hit a residential building late on Sunday. The bodies of the four people were...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale was felt by residents of Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and southern Lebanon. The National Center for Geophysics in Bhannès, affiliated with the...
BEIRUT — U.S. stock index futures inched higher on Monday, after the main indexes marked their biggest weekly jump in four months in the last session, as investors assessed prospects of an end to...
BEIRUT — Israeli strikes killed the intelligence chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, as the Islamic republic on Monday defied threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to devastate civilian...
BEIRUT — Israel carried out a series of overnight strikes from Sunday to Monday on localities in southern Lebanon, including on residential buildings and homes, killing several people, according to...
Iran won't reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a "temporary cease-fire," a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, adding that Tehran views Washington as lacking the...
BEIRUT — Iran and the United States received a plan on Monday that would see the end of hostilities and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a source aware of the proposals told Reuters on...
This article was updated on April 6, 2026, to reflect potential market shifts following the April 5 strike on Ain Saade, in an area of Metn previously considered safe.Although fragile, the...
How does a journalist at L’Orient-Le Jour gauge public sentiment in Lebanon? In countries where political systems are based on individual freedoms — and, in theory, everyone can think and express...
"He was the pride" of the family. The only one among eight brothers and sisters to have joined the army. An Israeli strike on Kfar Tibnit took the life of Corporal Fadel Abdallah Ayoub,...
BEIRUT — President Donald Trump threatened to rain "hell" on Tehran if it did not make a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline, as he praised U.S. special forces...
23:01 Beirut Time Iran has reportedly reversed its decision to allow several oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz: Haaretz Iran has reportedly reversed its decision to...
The U.S., Iran, and a group of regional mediators are discussing the terms for a potential 45-day cease-fire that could lead to a permanent end to the war, Axios reported on Sunday, citing four...
The Maronite Church patriarchate in Lebanon expressed its “deepest disappointment” Sunday following the cancellation of a Vatican-led humanitarian convoy to the Christian village of Dibil (Bint...
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
