Unions and rights groups demanded an apology from Tunisia's interior minister on Wednesday after he lashed out at media and political party "traitors," as authorities face heavy criticism over a...
GENEVA — The United Nations special envoy for Syria on Wednesday called on the warring sides there and the international community to revive efforts to find a political solution to a conflict that...
Leading media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday urged Iran to release a journalist arrested after closely covering a spate of mystery poisonings of schoolgirls, saying the...
BEIRUT — Employees and on-demand workers of the South Lebanon Water Authority went on strike Wednesday to demand an adjustment to their salaries, like other sectors of public administration, the...
WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian officials and companies over accusations of serious human rights abuses, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown...
BEIRUT — Tensions rose in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, on the outskirts of Saida in southern Lebanon, on Wednesday after the relatives of a murder suspect refused to turn him in to...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) on Wednesday reported a fatal hit-and-run incident at Jal al-Dib, north of the Beirut, on the highway connecting the capital to the north of the country....
BEIRUT — Public school teachers held a demonstration in Saida, South Lebanon, on Wednesday to protest their unions' decision to end their strike L'Orient Today's correspondent in the south...
ANKARA — The owner of Sila, a 2-1/2-year-old Doberman, was surprised to see not one but four dogs emerge from the rubble of a building in Turkey's southern province of Hatay, 28 days after...
Seven people, including civilians, were killed Wednesday when a drone strike targeted a weapons factory belonging to Iran-backed factions in government-held eastern Syria, a war monitor said....
BEIRUT — Lebanon's commercial banks do not have enough liquidity to pay back depositors, the secretary general of the country's banking association said on Wednesday in a letter that laid out the...
BEIRUT — For Caline Aoun, materiality is all. “If you look at an image on a billboard, say, and the same image on your [computer] screen, or on an iPhone, or in a magazine — they’re not the same...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held a meeting on Wednesday at the Grand Serail to "resolve the dispute" between caretaker Defense Minister Maurice Slim and army chief Joseph Aoun,...
Private equity firm General Atlantic announced on Feb. 27 the appointment of French-Lebanese financier Samir Assaf as president for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region — a position that...
Palestinian security forces in the occupied West Bank fired tear gas Wednesday as mourners attending the funeral of a Hamas militant killed by Israeli forces chanted slogans against the Palestinian...
BEIRUT — The municipality of Majidieh-Mari, in South Lebanon's Hasbaya district, called on "confining" Syrian refugees in the area, whom they claimed had contracted cholera,...
Iran has jailed for six and a half years on national security charges an Irish-French citizen held since October, his family said, adding that health problems meant his life was in danger....
Ski resort managers are disappointed. While they opened for a season that lasted between the end of December and late January over the last five years, the relatively short and mild winter of 2023...
BEIRUT — Insurance companies in crisis-hit Lebanon are expected to raise their premiums as well as the benefits received by doctors, while hospitals are also pushing for a similar measure, the...
Could Hezbollah and the Amal Movement count on Sunni MPs to propel Sleiman Frangieh to the presidency? With Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's commercial banks do not have enough liquidity to pay back depositors, the head of the country's banking association said on Tuesday in a letter that laid out the...
BEIRUT — Municipal health workers seized expired meat, fish and other food products from butcheries in Tripoli Wednesday, L'Orient Today 's local correspondent reported. This seizure comes...
The United Nations on Wednesday urged Israel and the Palestinians to "immediately" end violence as tensions erupted following a deadly Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Wednesday morning announced a slight increase in fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,452,000, up by LL13,000 •...
Four people were killed and 23 injured when a passenger train slammed into the buffers at a station north of Cairo, the Egyptian health ministry said in an update Wednesday. The incident occurred...
LONDON — Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Tuesday said increased engagement with Syria might pave the way for its return to the Arab League as ties thaw after more than a decade of isolation, but...
A drone strike killed four people in government-held eastern Syria Wednesday in an area controlled by Iran-backed factions, a war monitor said. "Four people were killed and...
Israeli warplanes killed three people in a raid on Syria's Aleppo airport Tuesday, a war monitor said after the strike which, according to a Syrian official, halted earthquake aid flights....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon has regained voting rights at the United Nations General Assembly after paying its overdue annual contribution for...
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
