BEIRUT — Cars and trucks laden with mattresses, suitcases, and anything hastily gathered in moments of escape, stream northward on Lebanon’s coastal highway as people flee the southern regions, on...
"You are extraordinary. You are lions," stated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praising the troops of the 36th division of the Israeli army along the border with Lebanon on Sunday...
For the past 20 days, the Israeli population has watched its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accumulate tactical victories in Lebanon. In less than a month, Israel conducted two waves of deadly...
Situated along Beirut's waterfront, opposite downtown Beirut, this round, black building is well known to Lebanese club-goers, and even to those across the Middle East. Below is the underground...
Iranian officials remain unfazed by the Israeli response. This week, former Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namda Zanganeh expressed no concern over the escalating tensions, according to Reuters,...
Sleiman Frangieh, the head of the Marada Party, does not consider himself defeated. On Monday, after a meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berry, Frangieh, the candidate for presidency backed by...
The U.N. Agency for Palestine Refugees in the region (UNRWA) announced on Monday the closure of a shelter for displaced people at the Deir al-Qasi school in the Palestinian refugee camp of Mieh...
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has chaired a high-level meeting at the Grand Serail to address security concerns at Beirut airport, following a series of Israeli strikes targeted areas close...
Lebanon's cabinet issued a new directive to the General Directorate of Customs on Monday, requesting the regular submission of a comprehensive list of donations, aid and goods entering Lebanese...
Over 2,000 killed, more than 9,700 injured and 1.2 million displaced as a result of brutal Israeli bombardments which have been ongoing since Oct. 8, 2023, and have intensified since Sept. 23. A...
On Monday, the Israeli air force bombed "around thirty villages" in southern Lebanon's Sour district, bordering northern Israel, "in less than half an hour," announced the official Lebanese...
It has been said that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Today, it seems the world faces a shortage of such "good men." As Lebanon suffers under...
Hamas rejected what it called "a false narrative and fabricated story" about a Yazidi woman Israel claimed was freed in Gaza in a secret operation involving Israel, the United States and Iraq. The...
After killing several Hamas leaders, including the commander of the group’s military wing, Mohammad Deif, according to the Israeli army, Israeli officials are reportedly considering the possibility...
At least 10 firefighters were killed in an Israeli strike on the Union of Municipalities building in Bint Jbeil, Baraasheet, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. Rescue operations continue as...
Lebanese television channel al-Mayadeen, considered pro-Iranian, said Monday that some of its "websites and news platforms have been targeted by a cyberattack," without elaborating. "Our team is...
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned Monday that "Israeli aggression" was pushing the region towards the "abyss" of full-blown war, during a visit to Lebanon, where Israel says it is...
After having already been forced to flee their home in Naqoura to take refuge in Sour six months ago, Hady* and his family were again compelled this week to join the over one million of their...
Hezbollah and the rest of Iran’s allies within the “Axis of Resistance” have always served as the first line of defense for Tehran.But today, it is Iran that finds itself compelled to intervene,...
Israel's president on Monday kicked off global commemorations on the first anniversary of Hamas's deadly Oct. 7 attack, with memorials held to honor the victims and the hostages still in captivity...
The bunker-buster munitions used by the Israeli army to assassinate Hezbollah's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah on Sept. 27 have also supposedly destroyed part of the party's cash reserves....
02:35 Beirut Time According to CNN, quoting U.S. officials, there are strong concerns within the Biden administration that what Israel has presented as a limited operation could quickly...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Updates on southern Lebanon's coastal region,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to achieve victory and said his country's military "completely transformed reality" in the year since Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, which has left...
Caught in the crossfire of the fierce Israel-Hezbollah war, the movements of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are being restricted and its options are reduced to a trickle....
One year on from the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which rapidly escalated into a regional conflict, the economies of the three main states involved — Lebanon, Israel and Palestine — have...
History did not begin on October 7, 2023. All those with the Palestinian cause at heart like to make a reminder of this to counter a dominant narrative that makes it the alpha and omega of...
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
