BEIRUT — Lebanese Public Works and Transport Minister Ali Hamieh, during his visit to France, confirmed on Thursday that specifications are currently being prepared as part of the tenders set to...
BEIRUT — There was a shootout at an army checkpoint in Tripoli Thursday after a man was detained for possessing a gun without a war pistol without a license. When the Lebanese Army detained the...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Ministry of Finance has officially announced that the salaries for all public sector employees have been transferred to the Banque du Liban (BDL) and will be accessible for...
BEIRUT — The Director-General of the National Social Security Fund (CNSS), Mohammad Karaki, announced that the institution will now cover a variety of healthcare services under the umbrella of...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Traffic and Vehicle Management Authority's registration department announced that it has begun distributing new license plates for vehicles and motorcycles that "conform to...
Hajj Ali Hamdan and his wife Manar Abadi were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in the village of Kafra, in southern Lebanon on February 28, 2024. Ghadir Hamadi attended the funeral of the...
LONDON — India's navy evacuated all 20 crew from a stricken vessel in the Red Sea on Thursday, after a Houthi attack killed three seafarers in the first fatalities from the Yemeni group's...
CAIRO — A Hamas delegation left Cairo on Thursday, but will continue with Gaza cease-fire talks until an agreement is reached with Israel, the Palestinian group said in a statement, with a Hamas...
BEIRUT — Druze leader Walid Jumblatt questioned the consistency of US diplomacy toward the ongoing conflict in Lebanon and Gaza in a post published Tuesday on X, writing: "If [US] Vice President...
It was a “massacre.” On Feb. 29 at dawn, as nearly 30 food lorries arrived at an Israeli checkpoint in Gaza City, Israeli tanks fired at hundreds of Gazans gathered on al-Rashid Street to find...
The shadow of a dissolution has been hanging over the Israeli war cabinet for months. Keen on preserving the support of ultra-nationalist and far-right coalition partners, Prime Minister Benjamin...
A senior Hamas official confirmed Thursday that the group's delegation in talks seeking a Gaza truce left Cairo for consultations in Doha, while voicing dissatisfaction with Israel's responses so...
One person was killed and two others injured in an incident at an oil refinery in southern Iran on Thursday, state media reported. The incident occurred during repair work...
Gaza's government media office said Thursday that Israel had returned dozens of bodies that had been exhumed from graves in the besieged territory in recent weeks....
BEIRUT — Following a meeting with former President Michel Aoun at his residence in Rabieh, Hezbollah MP and parliamentary bloc leader Mohammad Raad said that "the existing communication" between...
We are sharing this article, originally published by The Fuller Project, as part of our collaboration with the Spark News Towards Equality Initiative for International Women’s Day. Women in...
KUECHRA, Akkar — Down a narrow mountain road in northern Lebanon’s Akkar governorate is a tiny village with Turkish emblems speckled throughout: on signposts and store signs, plaques on the mosque...
Hamas's delegation on Thursday left Cairo, where talks aiming to secure a new truce in the group's war with Israel had been underway, Egyptian state-affiliated media said....
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At least 30,800 Palestinians have been killed and 72,298 have been wounded since Oct. 7 in Israel's military offensive on Gaza, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Thursday....
BEIRUT/THE HAGUE – An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters reporter in Lebanon in October by firing two shells at a clearly identified group of journalists and then "likely" opened fire on them...
Mediators struggled on Thursday to reach a truce in Israel's war with Hamas which entered its sixth month with dozens more killed, according to the health ministry in the territory threatened by...
Like her ancestors before her, Emirati astronaut Nora AlMatrooshi has spent much of her life gazing up at the stars and dreaming of flying to the Moon. This week, she...
Envoys pushed on with efforts for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal in Cairo talks Wednesday, hoping to halt nearly five months of fighting with days to go before Ramadan....
Tears in his eyes, Mohammed al-Sabbagh shouts into a mobile phone, imploring his niece on the other end to "be strong" as she languishes under rubble in Gaza. The...
22:05 Beirut Time That's it for our live coverage of the Gaza war and related regional conflicts for today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis, right here at...
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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
