Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed the Europeans' "roadmap" for lifting sanctions against Syria during a phone conversation with Emmanuel Macron on Friday, according to the Turkish...
Israel will free 183 inmates from jails on Saturday in the fifth hostage-prisoner swap agreed with Hamas as part of an ongoing Gaza cease-fire deal, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club...
Lebanese police announced in a statement released Friday the arrest on Jan. 30 in the locality of Ersal (Baalbeck district) of a Captagon producer and trafficker to Arab countries. Born in 1966...
BEIRUT — The latest balance sheet published by the Banque Du Liban reportedly showed the value of the country’s gold reserves to have gone up by $1 billion, from $24.7 billion in mid-January to...
Sitting on a sofa, his cat perched next to him, a man smokes and stares at his computer screen and tries to verbalize his frustration at the deadly images coming from Gaza. But "words do not...
While the formation of the Lebanese government seemed (again) on the verge of completion Friday with the visit of the designated Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, to Baabda, the latter left after he met...
BEIRUT — Beirut's governor, Marwan Abboud, decided to ban motorcycles from 7 p.m. until 5 a.m. within Beirut's administrative area, with some exceptions subject to certain conditions, the...
Four hunters from Akkar kidnapped on Jan. 21 near Tabqa in northeastern Syria were released Thursday morning and handed over to Lebanese authorities the same evening, according to our correspondent...
In a first response to comments made by U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus from the Baabda Palace after her meeting with President Joseph Aoun, Hezbollah's parliamentary group leader Mohammad Raad...
Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam has arrived at the Baabda Palace to discuss with President Joseph Aoun the composition of the next Lebanese government. While the formation of the Cabinet...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday that Berlin was ready to support the transition to a "free and safe" future after the ousting of...
BEIRUT — Four people, including two children, were killed Friday in Tayr Harfa, southern Lebanon, when furniture rigged with explosives left by the Israeli army detonated, reported our regional...
President Donald Trump on Friday said USAID should "close," in an escalation of his already unprecedented campaign to dismantle the massive government aid agency. "THE CORRUPTION IS...
BEIRUT — Cabinet formation talks led by Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam faced a setback Thursday as Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, representing the Amal-Hezbollah alliance, demanded input on...
A Syrian girl died Friday following a fire in a Syrian refugee camp in Qubb Elias , Bekaa, reported our regional correspondent Sarah Abdallah. The Civil Defense put out the fire, but two tents...
BEIRUT — Three people were injured on Friday in Qanafed, a locality at the Lebanese-Syrian border, following the entry of the new Syrian security forces (formerly Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham). For a...
The Israeli Defense Minister has ordered the military not to criticize Donald Trump's plan for the future of Gaza, leading to embarrassing explanations from the head of Israeli military...
I’ve always felt the connection between music and place quite strongly. Certain albums have a Proustian way of transporting me back to certain travels, a childhood memory or a particular walk...
While the commitment to judicial reform expressed by both President Joseph Aoun, and the Prime Minister-designate, Nawaf Salam, had rekindled hopes of holding accountable civil service officials,...
A Syrian whistleblower, who smuggled tens of thousands of pictures depicting torture under Bashar al-Assad, on Thursday revealed his identity for the first time, two months after the longtime ruler...
“We are not Hezbollah’s allies.” This remark, made by Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil a few days ago, was in response to whether he and his ministers intended to maintain their Cabinet...
The news sent shockwaves among Hezbollah’s popular base, particularly those who lost everything in the war with Israel following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.Last week, the al-Qard al-Hassan...
President Joseph Aoun received a letter from Pope Francis, delivered by Apostolic Nuncio Paolo Borgia, in which he asked God to preserve Lebanon as "a treasure of civilization and spiritual...
Hezbollah should not be part of the Lebanese government, which Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam has been trying to form since mid-January, American envoy Morgan Ortagus stated from the...
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned the controversial remarks made by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding Gaza, which have sparked a series of outraged denunciations around the...
The IMF plans to unveil a new loan agreement with Egypt for approval by its board, the global lender's communications chief said Thursday, as the country looks to strengthen its economy....
U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, is in Lebanon on Friday, where she met in the morning President Joseph Aoun. During her meeting with the head of state,...
“Go look for Nabih Berri,” said a figure close to Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam by way of summing up the delay in forming the government, which, on Thursday, had seemed imminent.The process...
Prices for gasoline, diesel, and fuel oil dropped slightly, according to the latest prices published by the Energy and Water Ministry. However, the price for a domestic gas cylinder, which changes...
20:16 Beirut Time South Lebanon The Israeli army carried out a powerful explosion in Mais al-Jabal , in the Marjayoun district, reports our correspondent. 20:15 Beirut...
BEIRUT — The office of former Minister Tarek Mitri, considered for the position of vice president in Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam's future Cabinet, declared in a statement Thursday...
Israel on Friday praised U.S. President Donald Trump for imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court, calling the court's actions against Israel "immoral" and illegitimate....
Iran on Friday condemned as "illegal" and "unjustified" new financial sanctions by the United States that target a network accused of shipping hundreds of millions of dollars...
Israel's defense minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare for "voluntary" departures from Gaza, as U.S. President Donald Trump ruled out sending American troops to the...
Rukaya al-Zubaidi placed a cautious foot on a skateboard and then struggled to find her balance as others glided back and forth at Baghdad's first park dedicated to the sport. "It's...
On Thursday, the French presidency announced that the United Arab Emirates would invest billions of euros in building a huge artificial intelligence data center in the country. The center will be...
A Syrian whistleblower, who smuggled tens of thousands of pictures depicting torture under Bashar al-Assad, on Thursday revealed his identity for the first time, two months after the longtime ruler...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Feb. 7, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:Progress on government formation in Lebanon.The first...
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
