Salam says there will be no food shortage during war
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Sunday received a delegation from the Syndicate of Food Importers headed by Hani Bohsali at the Grand Serail, in the presence of Finance Minister Yassin Jaber and...
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Lebanon registers more than half a million displaced by Israeli attacks
Lebanon's social affairs minister said on Sunday that more than half a million people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the new war between Israel and Hezbollah. In a...
8 March 2026
Israel says killed 5 Iran Guards commanders in Beirut hotel strike
The Israeli military said on Sunday it had killed three key commanders from the elite Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in a strike on a hotel in Beirut, which it said left five Guards...
8 March 2026
Rajji to Arab League: Hezbollah ignores Lebanese interests
Foreign Minister Joe Rajji said Sunday that "Hezbollah has once again ignored Lebanon's higher interests to serve foreign agendas, by going so far as to defend Iran and dragging Lebanon...
8 March 2026
Why Haykal is opposing the use of force against Hezbollah
Disarm Hezbollah yourself or face "more severe measures." That is the message the Israelis have given to the Lebanese, at a time when the war between Israel and the militia keeps growing,...
Salah HIJAZI, 8 March 2026
Israel brings the war to Raouche: Beirut's cruel awakening
It almost feels like a typical Sunday morning. Time drags; traffic is sparse; the capital sheds the tumults of the working week gone by. As winter gives way to spring, Beirut basks in the sun. But...
Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 8 March 2026
In maps: What Israel's evacuation order for the entirety of Beirut's southern suburbs represents
On Thursday at 3 p.m., time in Beirut took on a different pace after Israel issued a mass evacuation order — illegal under international law — for residents of the entire southern suburb of the...
Enzo Quenescourt, 8 March 2026
Salam: Hezbollah made a 'strategic mistake'
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in an interview published Sunday that Hezbollah made a "strategic mistake" by entering the regional war, emphasizing that activities by members of...
L'Orient Today staff, 8 March 2026
Two Israeli soldiers killed in southern Lebanon, Israel military says
BEIRUT — The Israeli military said on Sunday that two of its soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, marking the first fatalities among its troops since Israel-Hezbollah hostilities resumed last...
8 March 2026
South Lebanon: Total death toll from Israeli strikes rises to nearly 400
Since Sunday morning, deadly Israeli strikes have continued in southern Lebanon, killing more than 30 people, according to information from our correspondent in the region. The Israeli strike on...
L'Orient Today staff, 8 March 2026
Hezbollah confronts Israeli advances near Aitaroun and Markaba
BEIRUT — Hezbollah said Sunday it carried out several attacks against the Israeli army in south Lebanon, particularly near Markaba (Marjayoun district) and Aitaroun (Bint Jbeil). Hezbollah said it...
8 March 2026
Why is Iran playing the détente card with Gulf countries?
"I apologize to our neighbors," declared Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian on Saturday, March 7, after a week of a regional war that saw the Gulf petromonarchies targeted by...
Laure-Maïssa FARJALLAH, 8 March 2026
Cracks emerge in Iran's leadership as it reels under Israeli bombs
Iran's hierarchy is showing signs of fracturing over a war its leaders see as existential, with angry divisions between hardliners and more pragmatic factions laid bare by a row over President...
Reuters/L'Orient Today, 8 March 2026
Iran body selecting supreme leader reaches decision, name not announced
The body tasked with selecting Iran's new supreme leader has reached a decision, members said Sunday, although the name has yet to be announced. "The vote to appoint the leader has taken...
AFP/L'Orient Today staff, 8 March 2026
Saida, the 'gateway to southern Lebanon,' turned transit city
It's Monday, March 2, 2026 – the first day of this new war. War means waiting. You wait for it to arrive, and then you wait for it to pass. The smell of asphalt, exhaust fumes, as lines of cars...
Muntasser Abdallah, 8 March 2026
Israeli army strike on Raouche kills 4, claims IRGC member targeted: What we know
BEIRUT — An Israeli strike in the middle of Saturday night hit central Beirut for the first time since November 2024, targeting a room at the Ramada Hotel Beirut in Raouche, killing at least four...
L'Orient Today staff, 8 March 2026
Israeli settlers kill three Palestinians in occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, confirmed by Palestinian authorities and the Israeli military. This is the second deadly incident reported in as many...
AFP/L'Orient Today staff, 8 March 2026
Israeli military says it will pursue every successor of Iran's Khamenei
The Israeli military warned it would target every successor of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. In a post on X in Farsi, the...
8 March 2026
Iran says can fight for 6 more months
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Sunday that the country's forces could fight an intense war for six months against the United States and Israel. As the conflict spilled into its second...
8 March 2026
Mojtaba Khamenei is Iran's new supreme leader; raids increasing in evening in south Lebanon, Bekaa | LIVE
00:54 Beirut Time Hezbollah hit Israeli helicopter in east Lebanon: Hezbollah official to AFP 00:52 Beirut Time New Israeli helicopter raid on Syrian side of...
Muntasser Abdallah, Marguerita Sejaan, 8 March 2026
Trump rejects settling Iran war, raises prospect of killing any potential leaders
U.S. President Donald Trump said he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the war would only end once Tehran no longer has a functioning military or any...
8 March 2026
Israeli strike on Raouche hotel kills 4, injures 10
An Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in Raouche, central Beirut, early on Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring 10 others, according to the Health Ministry....
8 March 2026
Five hours in the Bekaa: Inside the Israeli commando operation at Nabi Sheet
It was 11:25 p.m. on Friday when a message arrived, reporting an Israeli airborne operation in the Bekaa.The news was not surprising. This type of operation had long been anticipated. Similar...
