JERUSALEM/CAIRO — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel intends to take military control of all of Gaza, despite intensifying criticism at home and abroad over...
BEIRUT — Israel killed at least seven people in Lebanon on Thursday in drone strikes in the Bekaa, following the killings of two other people on Wednesday evening in a series of bombardments across...
Israel's Leviathan natural gas field has signed the largest export agreement in the country's history, worth up to $35 billion to supply gas to Egypt, NewMed, one of the partners in the...
BEIRUT — Just half an hour after all Shiite ministers walked out of a Cabinet meeting on the state's attempts to achieve a monopoly on arms, which specifically centers around Hezbollah's...
BEIRUT — During a visit to Beirut and a meeting with President Joseph Aoun, U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa promised that the United States would find a "solution" to the ongoing Israeli...
BEIRUT — During its second meeting convened this week to discuss a state monopoly on arms, Cabinet saw all of its Shiite ministers walk out following their refusal to discuss a U.S. "roadmap" that...
This year marked the fifth anniversary of the Beirut Port explosion, the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history. In an early morning statement, President Joseph Aoun said the Lebanese state and...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah has called on the government to "correct its course" as Cabinet meets for a second time this week to discuss a state monopoly on arms that centers around...
The French army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Thursday that peacekeepers and the Lebanese Army uncovered a network of Hezbollah tunnels and weapons in the South....
GENEVA — Gaza has seen its highest monthly figure of acute malnutrition in children, with hunger-related deaths rising in the enclave, the Director General of the World Health Organization said...
BEIRUT — The deputy commander of the Quds Force for Iranian Coordination, Brigadier General Iraj Masjedi, said that Hezbollah would "never be disarmed," in comments reported on Thursday...
While all eyes were on the issue of Hezbollah’s disarmament, for which the government set a timeline and a deadline at the end of 2025, it also took a significant step on money laundering and...
Rouzbeh Vadi, who state media said was executed on Wednesday for giving information on Iran's nuclear programme to Israel's Mossad spy agency, was himself a nuclear scientist, state...
MP Ghazi Zeaiter held a press conference Thursday to protest against an operation carried out by the Lebanese Army the previous day in the Sharahouneh neighborhood of Baalbeck, which resulted in...
Army Commander Gen. Rodolph Haykal wrapped up a visit to the U.K. during which he took part in the “Dragon Group,” a British initiative aimed at bringing together defense chiefs from various Middle...
Pensioner Marji Mansfield never imagined she would end up suspected of terrorism for protesting against the banning of a pro-Palestinian group. But the British grandmother was arrested on July 5...
A New York Times report published on Tuesday sparked a wave of backlash after revealing a framed photograph of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman displayed inside the New York City mansion of...
Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich announced Thursday that the Sa-Nur settlement in the West Bank, evacuated by Israel in 2005, will be rebuilt. "We are correcting the mistake of the...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that it is is very important to him that all "Middle Eastern countries join the Abraham Accords." "Now that the nuclear arsenal being...
The mufti of the Republic, Abdellatif Deriane, received on Thursday, at the headquarters of Dar al-Fatwa in Beirut, a delegation representing Druze Sheikh Akl Sami Abi al-Mona, consisting of...
Hungry children in war-torn Sudan's capital have been reduced to "skin and bones," and thousands of families are at risk of starvation in a western city under a months-long siege, the...
Israeli military chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir vowed on Thursday to continue expressing the military's position "without fear" ahead of an expected security cabinet meeting...
The Lebanese Army command issued a statement Thursday saying it has arrested a man suspected of causing fires in the Koura region of northern Lebanon. "On Aug. 4, 2025, following a series of...
Two days after the Lebanese government adopted a plan to restore the state's monopoly on arms — including dismantling Hezbollah’s arsenal by the end of the year — Cabinet reconvened Thursday at...
Environment Minister Tamara al-Zein and Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine walked out of the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 8:25 p.m. The session’s continuity rested on the shoulders of the...
The Lebanese Army command announced Thursday that the troops arrested two men in Sour (southern Lebanon) the previous day, suspected of involvement in an assault against officers in the city,...
The head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and Member of Parliament Gebran Bassil commemorated, in a message on his X account Thursday, the raids of Aug. 7, 2001, calling it "more than a...
Relatives of Israeli hostages set sail on Thursday in a flotilla to approach the Gaza Strip, according to an AFP journalist aboard one vessel, with organizers saying they hoped to "get as...
Son of the great Mansour Rahbani, it would be reductive to confine Oussama Rahbani to his family heritage alone. Beyond his family tree, and throughout a career he has forged for himself, this...
"I’m preparing myself some happiness. Should I make you one as well?" said Ziad Rahbani. Though he is no longer of our world, our world is of him. Every absurd episode in the life of this...
How can one not think of the "New Order" and "Constructive Chaos," two very American notions mainly centered on the Middle East? Would Georges Hobeika, working in tandem with...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun chaired on Thursday the first meeting of the committee tasked with negotiating with Cyprus to demarcate the maritime borders of the exclusive economic zone...
The government has had its say, and so has the Hezbollah-Amal alliance — and their positions are opposed. On Wednesday, Hezbollah sharply condemned the Cabinet’s decision, made the day before, to...
U.S. envoy Tom Barrack stated on Wednesday that Washington is prepared to facilitate talks between Israel and Lebanon if the latter "commits to the disarmament of Hezbollah by the end of...
23:35 Beirut Time That concludes our love coverage of events for the evening. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow with more news updates and analysis. Goodnight....
As famine has significantly worsened since the beginning of the summer in the Gaza Strip, due to Israel's blockade on humanitarian aid, the Health Ministry of the enclave announced on Monday,...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's discontent following Tuesday’s Cabinet decision to assign the army the task of drafting a plan for disarming Hezbollah and other armed groups by year's end...
Benjamin Netanyahu appears more determined than ever to go all the way in Gaza, ignoring mounting international and domestic pressures. On Monday, Aug. 4, a senior adviser to the Israeli government...
"Abu al-Zouz! Hafez al-Assad must be turning in his grave." This is how one user responded online after the government's decision on Tuesday to rename Hafez al-Assad Avenue, located...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:11 a.m. The Metropolitan of Beirut and its...
MP and former Public Works Minister Ghazi Zeaiter on Wednesday rejected all accusations against him regarding the Beirut Port explosion on Aug. 4, 2020, saying that they were "above all...
Happy August, the busiest month in any Lebanese (or Lebanese-adjacent) life. To properly keep up with your overwhelming schedules, L’Orient Today, in partnership with The MYM Agenda , will guide...
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
