BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil stated Tuesday that the dialogue between his party and Hezbollah regarding the presidential election is still in its early stages. He...
JERUSALEM — An Israeli official brushed off on Tuesday the rare US use of the term "terror attack" to condemn the killing of a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, as two Jewish settlers...
BEIRUT — The recruitment of air traffic controllers in Lebanon is being blocked by sectarian quotas preventing qualified candidates from being appointed because of their sect, Beirut MP Ibrahim...
Amin Salam, the caretaker economy minister, who was once seen as a potential heir to caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, now finds himself embroiled in a controversy reminiscent of a diplomatic...
BEIRUT — Fire erupted at the Alfa transmission station in Al-Marah neighborhood, Hermel, Tuesday afternoon, leaving two people slightly injured and disrupting broadcast services in the city and...
Wassim Mansouri is the current interim governor of Banque du Liban, Lebanon’s central bank. Youssef Khalil is the caretaker finance minister. Ali Ibrahim is the financial prosecutor. Mohammad Abu...
BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held a consultative meeting with Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai at the summer Maronite patriarchal headquarters in Dimane on Tuesday. The...
BEIRUT — Amnesty International launched a new campaign on Tuesday, #MyOpinionIsNotaCrime, which "calls on the Lebanese Parliament to abolish all laws that criminalize insult and defamation."...
BEIRUT — One person was killed and several others were injured in gunfire near Sebline, Mount Lebanon, on Tuesday, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported. The incident happened in the...
The restoration of relations with Iran was expected to contribute to regional calm. Yet tensions in the Gulf have soared in recent weeks, from the renewed dispute over the al-Durra gas field, to...
A medical charity on Tuesday deplored the UN's failure to renew a cross-border mechanism that allowed international aid to reach rebel-held northwestern Syria from Turkey and demanded an urgent...
BEIRUT — A hearing in which North Lebanon investigating judge Samaranda Nassar is set to question several family members of 5-year-old Lynn Taleb, who died at the end of June following repeated...
BEIRUT — The reported crime rate in Lebanon significantly dropped in the first seven months of 2023 compared to the same period last year, according to data released Tuesday by the Internal...
Thousands of people displaced by 12 years of war are stuck in squalid, unofficial camps in Syria's Kurdish-held northeast, languishing in extreme poverty and largely cut off from international...
BASRA, Iraq — With temperatures that can go above 50C (122F), Iraqi building sites have long been a hazardous place to work in summer. Laborers grapple with bricks that are too hot to touch and...
ANKARA — Some 15,000 tons of grains were damaged when a blast ripped through grain silos near the port of Derince in northwest Turkey on Monday, the presidency's communications directorate said....
BEIRUT — Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told Al-Joumhouriya that the September dialogue, proposed by French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian to find a solution to the ongoing presidential...
Israel's army said Tuesday it demolished the home of a Palestinian accused of killing a soldier and his brother in the occupied West Bank, which has seen months of violence....
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Monday announced an increase in all fuel prices. Here are the new rates: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,745,000, up by LL4,000 • Twenty liters of...
Islamic State (IS) group fighters killed 10 Syrian government troops and militiamen in the jihadists' former stronghold of Raqqa province, a war monitor said Tuesday. "IS...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Civil Defense volunteers from across Lebanon are in the “last stages” of extinguishing a fire that engulfed a textile warehouse...
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
