BEIRUT — Multiple 220-kilowatt electricity stations — which supply several areas in Lebanon, including the southern suburbs of Beirut, Ras Beirut and Saida — have been inoperable since Sunday...
Two protesters in Iraq's southern city of Nasiriyah were shot dead Wednesday in clashes with security forces at a rally against an activist's prison sentence, a health official told AFP....
Acute fuel shortages have forced the temporary suspension of all sporting competitions in government-held areas of Syria, local media reported Wednesday, as the country's energy troubles deepen....
BEIRUT — Zeina Maasri sits with her leg propped up on a chair. She sprained her ankle while walking around the city. Incurring such minor injuries has become a popular pastime in Beirut, thanks to...
“Today, we are closer to the Lebanese Forces than to Hezbollah.” This statement by a former Free Patriotic Movement MP perfectly depicts the anger of FPM supporters following the controversial...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad said Wednesday that Lebanon's recent cholera outbreak "is under control." In a press conference, Abiad said 500,000...
European satellite operator Eutelsat said Wednesday that it will request broadcasters to stop showing Iran's English-language news channel Press TV following sanctions over its broadcasting of...
Chinese President Xi Jinping touched down in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a visit that is likely to focus on energy ties, following months of tensions with the United States....
Many Iranian workers went on strike and students boycotted classes on Wednesday, rights groups said, as a former president offered public support for the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's...
BEIRUT — An 11-year-old child was killed and two other children were injured after an unidentified device they were handling exploded in the Syrian village of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon....
BEIRUT — The strike by mobile operators' employees in Lebanon continued Wednesday for the third consecutive day, stopping customer service, closing stores throughout the country and...
President Xi Jinping arrived in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on Wednesday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. The three-day trip is Xi's third overseas...
The sister of Iran's supreme leader slammed his "despotic" rule and threw her support behind protests ignited by Mahsa Amini's death, in a letter published by her son on Wednesday. Protests have...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Economy Minister Amin Salam said on Wednesday in a statement that the $150 million World Bank loan granted to Lebanon to finance wheat imports will be implemented at the end of...
The Union of Employees of Electricité du Liban (EDL) announced on Wednesday an open-ended strike starting Thursday, as well as a sit-in Thursday in all branches of the institution, until wage...
An Iraqi activist has been sentenced to three years in prison over a disputed tweet deemed insulting to a pro-Iran paramilitary force, court documents seen by AFP on Wednesday showed....
Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has voiced support for the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, describing as "beautiful" its main slogan — "Woman, life, freedom."...
Lebanon has arrested 185 people suspected of collaborating with enemy state Israel since its economic collapse three years ago left many Lebanese desperate for cash, two security sources told AFP...
Iran's ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi paid a visit Wednesday to a university and praised students for their welcome despite the "atmosphere of riots" after nearly three months of...
Who was Rabiaa al-Adawiyya (713-801) whom Salah Stétié, [a Lebanese writer], nicknamed “the athlete of God, similar to the future Therese,” by devoting to her a superb biography, Rabi'a, de feu et...
Turkey said Wednesday it has started requesting proof of insurance from tankers loaded with Russian crude oil after Western powers imposed a price cap to punish the Kremlin for its war on Ukraine....
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu was still one partner short of a coalition to secure a parliamentary majority on Wednesday after an ultra-Orthodox Jewish party...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Tuesday recorded one new cholera case and one new death in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases and deaths to 653 and 23, respectively, the Health...
BEIRUT — The Tashnag parliamentary bloc, which is close to the Free Patriotic Movement, on Tuesday evening dismissed caretaker Industry Minister and Zahle MP George Bouchikian following his...
DOHA/RABAT — Moroccans wildly celebrating their team's historic World Cup knockout victory over Spain on Tuesday were joined by people across the Middle East and North Africa ecstatic at what...
WASHINGTON — The US military said on Tuesday that an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy boat came within 150 yards of American warships in the Strait of Hormuz, but the situation was...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has indefinitely postponed a Parliament session previously scheduled for today after a number of...
A US judge dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged role in the 2018 murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi....
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
