The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Monday the start of asphalting work on a section of the Beirut airport road, as part of a project within the larger rehabilitation of the route...
Hezbollah "firmly condemned the piracy crime committed by the Zionist enemy" after the interception on Monday of the sailboat Madleen by the Israeli navy in international waters as it...
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) celebrated their 164th anniversary on Monday. On this occasion, President Joseph Aoun delivered a speech in which he said that the state "is committed to...
The number of passengers using Rafic Hariri International Airport (RHIA) – arrivals, transits and departures – reached 2,409,387 passengers by May 2025, compared to 2,292,764 passengers during the...
Since the beginning of the Gaza war on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel is said to have raised a record amount valued at $5 billion through its broker Israel Bonds, based in the United States, reported...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army killed one person late Monday afternoon in an airstrike on a car traveling between Wadi Zefta and Nmeirieh in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh district, our regional...
Israeli left-wing opposition leader Yair Golan called on Monday for an immediate end to the Gaza war and said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government no longer represented most...
Turkey slammed Israel for intercepting a Gaza-bound boat carrying activists including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg early on Monday, describing it as a "heinous attack." The Madleen...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will travel to Amman on Tuesday for an official visit to Jordan, the Lebanese presidency said in a statement on Monday. Aoun is scheduled to meet with King...
It was Dec. 7, 2024, just after midnight. Staff at the presidential palace in Damascus, perched on a hill overlooking the capital in the Mazzeh district, fled in a wave of panic. Since morning,...
Emirati businessman Khalaf Ahmad al-Habtoor, head of Dubai conglomerate Al Habtoor Group, will visit Syria in the coming days to explore investment and cooperation opportunities, Al Habtoor Group...
Four out of the 19 detainees who escaped around midnight on Saturday night from the Ghazir (Kesrouan) police station were arrested by the Internal Security Forces, a source at the ISF told...
The Lebanese Army announced in a statement on Monday that two Israeli drones fell in the towns of Houla (Marjayoun) and Beit Leif (Bint Jbeil) on Sunday. "Patrols from the Lebanese Army...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said Monday that Israel is “taking advantage of the Lebanese state’s inability to establish protective deterrents, a balance of power, and mechanisms to...
Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party on Monday threatened to bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government by backing a motion for early elections amid a row over military...
Israeli drones dropped grenades on Ras al-Naqoura (Sour district), and Ramieh (Bint Jbeil district), L'Orient Today's correspondent in the South reported. Since a cease-fire began between...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army said it found “no military equipment” during inspections Sunday in the Mreijeh and Laylaki neighborhoods of Beirut's southern suburb, according to local sources who...
The Synod of the Maronite Church began Monday at the patriarchal seat in Bkirki, presided over by Patriarch Beshara Rai. Maronite bishops from Lebanon and abroad are taking part in the closed-door...
The ministerial committee in charge of the return of Syrian refugees finished drafting the plan it will present to the Cabinet "as soon as possible," revealed Deputy Prime Minister Tarek...
The Canadian branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) officially lost its "registered charity" status after a Canadian federal court rejected its final legal appeal, the Canadian Lawyer news...
Iran will soon hand a counter-proposal for a nuclear deal to the United States via Oman, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday, in response to a U.S. offer that...
Iran condemned on Monday as an act of "piracy" Israel's interception of a humanitarian boat bound for the Gaza Strip with international activists on board. "The attack on this...
California National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday to quell demonstrations over President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement, as the state's Democratic governor called...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s private sector is no longer looking to the future with the optimism it showed after the election of President Joseph Aoun and the formation of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s...
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) are celebrating the 164th anniversary of their creation today. On this occasion, President Joseph Aoun delivered a speech in which he affirmed that the state...
Three Syrian children drowned Sunday night in an agricultural pond in Moallaqa (Zahle district), after they had reportedly dived in. According to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, June 9, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:Updates on the Madleen aid boat, intercepted yesterday by...
The Israeli military said Sunday that it had located and identified the body of Mohammed Sinwar, presumed leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, three weeks after he was said to have...
Syria will be fully reconnected to the international SWIFT payment system “within a few weeks,” after several years of sanctions had barred it from access, according to new Central Bank Governor...
A Gaza-bound aid boat reached Israel's Ashdod port on Monday after being intercepted by Israeli forces, preventing the dozen activists on board, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg,...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
