After months of rising tensions between Syria and Israel — marked by repeated Israeli airstrikes, ground incursions and the continued Israeli occupation of Syrian territory — Washington appears to...
The monitoring committee for the cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel (known as the "Mechanism") met on Wednesday in Naqoura (southern Lebanon) without civilian representatives, a...
According to a Lebanese Army source, two soldiers were arrested after images taken by one of them, showing the other posing inside a Hezbollah arms cache found in Kafra (Bint Jbeil district), were...
"The menu at Juni tells the story of my family across four generations," explains Gregory Guerguerian. From Ottoman Turkey to Lebanon, passing through Syria, and ultimately settling in...
Lebanese Foreign Minister Joe Rajji on Wednesday proposed to the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, "to take advantage of UNIFIL's presence...
The cameras, hundreds of them, were all fixed on the entrance of the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church when, a little before 10:30 a.m., a man with salt-and-pepper hair arrived whom no one noticed...
Hezbollah, which has a real but uneven presence in Latin America, has just lost a foothold in Caracas. Beyond being another setback for the party, the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas...
Designed by AAA (Atelier des Architectes Associés), the transformation of a constrained urban site into a vibrant university hub has earned the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (Lebanese Academy...
Ghazzeh, a small, predominantly Sunni village in Lebanon’s western Bekaa, is home to the highest number of emigrants settled in Venezuela.Subtle clues point to their connection: a “zapatería” (shoe...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadallah referred to Foreign Affairs Minister Joe Rajji as a "militiaman," in response to the latter's comment in a virtual policy forum with the...
Hamas officials told AFP that search operations for the remains of the last Israeli hostage held in Gaza resumed on Wednesday after a two-week pause due to bad weather. Israel has previously...
Nearly a year after the initial optimism surrounding Joseph Aoun’s election as president and Nawaf Salam’s appointment as prime minister faded in the face of Lebanon’s realities, the purchasing...
Mounted Internal Security Forces patrols are now present on the streets of downtown Beirut as part of community policing efforts aimed at maintaining public order, a source at the Internal Security...
Two adjacent buildings in Tripoli’s Dhar al-Maghr neighborhood collapsed on Wednesday, posing a direct threat to residents and passersby, while a third building is currently at risk of collapse,...
Smiling with relief, 43-year-old Sherifa Riahi hugged family members and several civil society activists who came to greet her in the early hours of Tuesday, Jan. 6, as she walked out of prison.The...
The Syrian army began shelling Aleppo's Kurdish-majority neighborhoods on Wednesday, after the deadline given for civilians to leave the area had passed, an AFP correspondent said. The...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and First Lady Neemat Aoun attended a ceremony in Nicosia on Wednesday evening marking the start of Cyprus’s six-month term at the helm of the European Union (EU),...
In an opinion piece published earlier this week in the daily al-Sharq al-Awsat, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) regional director for the Middle East and Central Asia, Lebanese national...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is now expected in Beirut on Thursday, anticipating a visit originally scheduled for Saturday. He will travel to Lebanon accompanied by an economic...
We first knew Cynthia Merhej as an illustrator, a field in which she competed in the 2016 Génération Orient talent contest. She was only 27 years old at the time and described her work as organic...
The United States welcomed the "reform steps being undertaken by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government, including the Cabinet’s approval of the gap law, which helps restore the confidence of...
BEIRUT — Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Wednesday that the Israeli army already has an "attack plan against Hezbollah" and was ready to implement it, but instead decided...
The United Nations published a new report on Wednesday accusing Israel of intensifying decades of discrimination and segregation of Palestinians in the West Bank and called on the country to end...
According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it was “only in Israel” that Christians in the Middle East were able to celebrate Christmas this year.In a video released on Dec. 24,...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun welcomed the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, at the Baabda Presidential Palace on Wednesday and stated that Lebanon...
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) on Tuesday denied any outbreak of tuberculosis, cholera or any other epidemic at Roumieh prison, after information circulated since late December about the...
France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, a minister said on Wednesday, as Europe sought to address U.S....
BEIRUT — The “Strong Republic” bloc of the Lebanese Forces said Tuesday that it held a lengthy remote meeting to prepare amendments to the financial stabilization and deposit repayment law, known...
BEIRUT — Former Prime Minister Najib Mikati has responded for the first time to the "Abu Omar" affair, the nickname of a fake Saudi prince said to have sold allegedly privileged access to...
22:42 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 19:11 Beirut Time...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:9.30 a.m. Meeting of the National Economy, Trade,...
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
