The collective Le Cri des déposants [The cry of the depositors in English] on Monday presented Lebanese Finance Minister Yassin Jaber with a series of demands, including "an immediate increase...
France's Parliament on Monday ousted the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after just nine months in office, leaving President Emmanuel Macron scrambling to find a successor and...
The Israeli army said that four soldiers were killed in combat in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. Only three of the soldiers were named, while the name of the fourth has not yet been cleared...
The Arab Parliament, chaired by Emirati Mohammad Ahmad al-Yamahi, expressed its support Monday for President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government during a tour in Beirut as...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told residents of Gaza City to evacuate as the military stepped up its assault on the Palestinian territory's main urban center. "In...
The government commissioner at the military court, Judge Claude Ghanem, has opened proceedings against nine active and retired law enforcement agents accused of helping a wanted scam suspect flee...
“It was Sept. 23, 2024, at 5 p.m.” In the office of Elias Maalouf, head of the Château Riyaq winery in the Bekaa, every detail bears the mark of the day when the largest Israeli strike on Riyaq...
Her impact on the international contemporary art scene is undeniable. Yet Andrée Sfeir-Semler’s path to becoming one of the Arab world’s most influential gallerists began almost by accident. After...
President Joseph Aoun received Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday at the Baabda Presidential Palace, three days after the Lebanese government's decision to "endorse" the...
The Lebanese Army announced Monday the arrest of a Lebanese suspect, H.Z., in the border town of al-Qasr in the Baalbeck-Hermel district, "wanted for leading gangs specializing in the...
The president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has appointed a new ambassador to Lebanon, Fadhl Salem Said al-Kaabi, who was sworn in before him, according to reports...
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced Monday that, with its support, the Lebanese Army has redeployed at "more than 120 positions in southern Lebanon," while the...
BEIRUT — Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled Sunday that the Prison Service must provide security prisoners, a term it uses for Palestinian detainees, with “basic living conditions, including...
BEIRUT — The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) responded Sunday, in a statement, to reports published by several Lebanese media outlets over the weekend about an army raid on what was...
“The Sudanese have no good options: They either endure the brutality of the Rapid Support Forces [RSF], or live under the shadow of an anti-democratic army, which at least spares them the risk of...
BEIRUT — "Ana Sooria," or "I am Syria," a television channel that launched in mid-July, has sparked a wave of criticism on social media in recent days, as it broadcasts from...
BEIRUT — The bank employees’ union threatened on Monday to mobilize if mediation with the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL), under the auspices of the Labor Ministry, fails to update the...
BEIRUT — Five people were killed and five others injured Monday afternoon when Israeli warplanes carried out around a dozen airstrikes on the heights of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range near the...
The United Nations human rights chief condemned Israel on Monday for its "mass killing" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and "hindering of sufficient lifesaving aid", saying the...
On Aug. 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, a federal appeals court in New York, overturned a previous decision by the New York civil court that had dismissed a lawsuit against the...
BEIRUT — A U.S. Embassy spokesperson denied to L'Orient Today on Monday reports claiming that the U.S. raised security levels at the embassy in Awkar (Metn district,) north of Beirut. Citing...
The EU on Monday condemned a deadly shooting by Palestinian gunmen at a bus stop in east Jerusalem, and said it underscored the urgent need for a cease-fire as Israel wages war in Gaza. "We...
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused Spain of antisemitism on Monday after its Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced nine measures aimed at stopping what he called "the genocide in...
BEIRUT — The divergence in interpretations regarding the Lebanese government's Friday decision to "endorse" the army's plan on the monopoly of arms continues to satisfy all...
At 7, Daniel Alhaiby dreamed of playing the saxophone. But when he showed up at LeBAM music school, the only spot left was in the flute class. What began as a childhood frustration became his...
Rick Davies, who was co-founder and lead singer for British rock band Supertramp, has died at age 81 after a decade-long battle with cancer, the group announced Sunday. The singer, known for hits...
Military maneuvers in Gaza City multiplied over the weekend, signaling the imminence of a ground offensive.With the targeting of a building in the heart of Gaza on Friday and a series of evacuation...
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday announced nine measures aimed at stopping "the genocide in Gaza", including an arms embargo on Israel and a ban on vessels carrying fuel...
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters gathered outside the Istanbul branch of Turkey's main opposition CHP party on Monday, just days after a court ousted its leadership and appointed a...
BEIRUT — Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has once again threatened Hamas with "destroying Gaza City" and "annihilating" Hamas, in a message on the social network X....
Interpretations diverge over Friday’s Cabinet decision to “welcome” the army’s plan regarding the monopoly on arms. On one side — particularly in Hezbollah circles — emphasis is placed on the fact...
NORTH LEBANON — The explosion of a landmine on Sunday evening on the Lebanese bank of the Nahr al-Kabir river, in the area of Khatt al-Batroul bordering Syria, in the Wadi Khaled region (North...
Israeli rescue services and a hospital confirmed that six people were killed and several others wounded on Monday in a shooting attack in East Jerusalem — one of the deadliest in the city since the...
NORTH LEBANON — Two shootings on Sunday night in Tripoli, North Lebanon, left three people injured, our correspondent reports. In the first incident, an unidentified individual fired at two men...
Noor, 27, a translator and media coordinator at a research center, has not left Gaza since the early days of the war. She tells L’Orient Today about her family home, destroyed in March 2024 by...
BEIRUT — Hamas said Sunday it was willing to "immediately" resume negotiations after receiving a new proposal from Washington, while U.S. President Donald Trump declared he had issued a...
Two police officers were killed and another was wounded in an armed attack on a police station in the western Turkish city of Izmir, security sources said on Monday. The attacker, reported to be...
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Sunday evening that “no one wants” a civil war in Lebanon, warning that if Hezbollah were to start one as a consequence of disarmament, it would be...
At least 57 people were arrested during clashes with police Sunday in Santiago, Chile, during the annual march honoring the victims of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990), according to...
More than a thousand people, including MEP Rima Hassan, welcomed the flotilla in Tunis on Sunday after its departure from Barcelona, carrying activists and humanitarian aid for Gaza. Several boats...
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warned Hamas on Monday to lay down its arms or face the destruction of Gaza and its own annihilation. "This is a final warning to the Hamas murderers and...
21:24 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of events in the region. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 21:17 Beirut Time...
BEIRUT — This week, the Israeli army inaugurated a vast live-fire training site in the north of the country, designed as "a replica of a South Lebanon village," according to a military...
At least 46 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks carried out since Sunday morning in the Gaza Strip, including 44 in Gaza City alone, where Israel has begun ramping up its military...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Sept. 8, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:10:30 a.m. – Opening of the Asian-African Parliamentary...
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
