An explosion tore through the governmental hospital in Nabatieh Tuesday evening, according to Mountasser Abdallah, L'Orient Today 's South Lebanon correspondent. The cause of the explosion has yet...
Ukraine said Tuesday that it would send a team of several dozen rescue workers to Turkey after an earthquake left thousands dead there and in neighboring Syria. Kyiv...
BEIRUT — At least six Lebanese citizens were killed in Turkey and Syria during Monday morning's two deadly earthquakes, which brought severe damage to both countries. The quakes killed more than...
BEIRUT – Maria Rajha was asleep in her house in Dekwaneh when the earthquake struck at 3:20 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 6. Having lived through the Aug. 4 Beirut blast, the young woman suffered from...
A Higher Judicial Council (HJC) meeting was canceled Tuesday due to a lack of quorum. After Judge Tarek Bitar, the lead investigator in the Beirut blast probe, indefinitely postponed hearings...
CAIRO — United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has ordered $100 million be allocated to support earthquake relief efforts in Syria and Turkey, state news agency WAM...
Family members pulled a newborn alive from the rubble of a home in northern Syria Tuesday. She was found still attached by umbilical cord to her mother, who died in Monday's massive quake, a...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices increased Tuesday afternoon just a few hours after they dropped Tuesday morning, according to the latest tariffs published by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices:...
Mohammad* lived through it all: the height of the Syrian civil war, the siege of Aleppo, intense bombings, kidnappings, and torture at the hands of the Syrian government. He managed to survive by...
Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu has been rescued from the rubble of the earthquake that killed and injured thousands in Turkey and neighboring Syria, Ghana's Football Association confirmed on...
The sole border crossing used to shuttle life-saving aid from Turkey into conflict-ravaged Syria has seen its operations disrupted by the deadly earthquake that struck the two countries, the UN...
BEIRUT — "So far, our candidate is Michel Moawad," Lebanese Forces MP Sethrida Geagea said Tuesday, in Bkirki, after a meeting with Maronite patriarch Bechara al-Rai. Since the beginning of...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese man and his son were found alive on Tuesday under the rubble of their house in Antakya, southern Turkey, an area hit hard by Monday's deadly earthquake, Lebanese ambassador to...
Dozens of cargo containers were on fire for the second day running on Tuesday in Turkey's quake-hit southern port city of Iskenderun, local TV images showed. The blaze at...
On Monday, the president of the Lebanese Association of Properties, Andira al-Zouhairi, warned of the “increased risk of building collapse,” following the deadly earthquake that struck Turkey and...
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent on Tuesday appealed to Western countries to lift sanctions and provide aid after a powerful earthquake killed more than 1,600 people across the war-torn country....
The UN's cultural agency UNESCO said on Tuesday it was ready to provide assistance after two sites included on its World Heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage in the devastating...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Tuesday a three-month state of emergency in 10 southeastern provinces hit by a major earthquake that has claimed thousands of lives....
BEIRUT —The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued emergency numbers on Tuesday for Lebanese nationals in Syria and Turkey, after Monday's earthquakes that killed more than 5,000 people across...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese man and his son were pulled alive from the rubble of their home in Hatay, southern Turkey, Tuesday, a day after a devastating earthquake killed more than 6,000 people in the...
CAIRO — The Syrian Arab Red Crescent is ready to deliver relief aid to all the country's regions including opposition-held areas and is urging the United Nations to facilitate this, its head said...
Iran's army on Tuesday unveiled its first underground base for fighter jets designed to withstand possible strikes by US bunker-busting bombs, state media reported. The base — named Oghab 44...
According to the Finance Ministry’s latest figures, Lebanon’s public debt hit $102.7 billion at the end of September 2022. The information was relayed by Lebanon This Week, Byblos Bank’s weekly...
As many as 23 million people could be affected by the massive earthquake that has killed thousands in Turkey and Syria, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. "Event...
The death toll from a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria rose above 5,000 on Tuesday, official data showed, with rescue workers still searching for trapped survivors....
Lebanon is three years into its economic crisis. These three long years have disrupted the daily life of all Lebanese, leaving many in extreme hardship. In the meantime, the country’s political...
Turkish police on Tuesday said they had detained four people over "provocative" social media posts following a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southern Turkey. The...
BEIRUT — At least 1,602 people were killed and thousands injured in Syria following a number of deadly earthquakes and aftershocks in neighboring Turkey, authorities and rescuers said...
Prisoners mutinied in a northwestern Syria prison Monday following a deadly earthquake, with at least 20 escaping the jail holding mostly Islamic State group members, a source at the facility told...
Three people died and more than 20 were feared missing after a second irregular migration sank off the coast of Greece in just days, the coastguard said on Tuesday. The two...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Tuesday announced a decrease in fuel prices, while the price of the domestic gas cylinder remained unchanged. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of...
In political circles, Lebanon is often referred to as a country ever permeable to external influence, where embassies and consulates hold sway. While this clichéd assertion may allow local...
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry announced the death...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanese authorities offered assistance and their sympathies to Syria and Turkey as the death toll of the region’s strongest...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army will send 15 members of the Engineering Regiment to Syria to participate in earthquake search and rescue operations, the army tweeted Tuesday. A Red Cross team of search...
War-torn Syria said Monday that aid sent after the earthquake will reach all its population, even though Damascus does not control all of its territory. The...
AMMAN — Time is running out to save hundreds of families still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings after this week's devastating earthquake, the head of the Syrian opposition-run civil...
Rescuers in Turkey and Syria battled frigid cold Tuesday in a race against time to find survivors under buildings flattened by a pair of earthquakes that killed more than 6,200 people. Tremors...
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
