Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, July 10, 2026 Some key things to watch out for today:Today: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to receive...
Syria's interior minister Anas Khattab on Thursday said it had captured a cell responsible for two bomb blasts during French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Damascus earlier this week....
Member states handed back Syria's voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday, following what they described as "a significant change in circumstances" since the...
Gaza's civil defense agency and health officials said Israeli attacks killed six people across the Palestinian territory on Thursday. A cease-fire is in place in the Israel-Hamas war, but it...
The first "pilot zone" in Lebanon, where the Lebanese Army will take control of an area currently occupied by Israeli forces, will be launched "in a few days," while other zones...
Discovered last January in the role of Don José in Pavia, Lebanese tenor Joseph Dahdah delivered the most convincing interpretation heard in over a decade. With a voice that is both robust and...
BEIRUT — The Cabinet on Thursday approved the granting of licenses for regular international flights at Rene Moawad Airport in Qleiaat (Akkar), Information Minister Paul Morcos said after a meeting...
A group of newspapers including the New York Times and New York Daily News asked a federal court in Manhattan on Thursday to sanction OpenAI in their high-stakes copyright dispute for allegedly...
The Jordanian military said it intercepted eight missiles fired from Iran on Thursday, while the Islamic republic said it targeted a U.S. base there amid a new exchange of strikes between Tehran...
BEIRUT — After the war with Israel ended, Hezbollah started searching for the remains of its fighters in the hardest-hit areas, two sources affiliated with the party told L'Orient-Le Jour....
Avin* wasn’t quite sure what documents to bring when she went to the stadium in Qamishli a few months ago, on the outskirts of what was until recently the Autonomous Administration of Northeast...
Amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States over the Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Vahid Jalalzadeh visited Beirut on Thursday. The...
With less than three weeks to go until the first anniversary of Ziad Rahbani’s death on July 26, his sister Reema Rahbani has reignited tensions surrounding the composer’s legacy by publishing a...
Iran summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to protest what it called "baseless accusations," state media said on Thursday, after a London court jailed two people for a knife attack it...
BEIRUT — The United States was at the center of a flurry of diplomatic activity in Beirut on Thursday. President Joseph Aoun received U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, who said the...
The joint parliamentary committees, meeting Thursday at Parliament, approved the abolition of the death penalty in Lebanon, clearing the way for the country's 128 MPs to vote on the bill in a...
From the Islamabad agreement to that of Washington, just two weeks were enough to upend the equation. The memorandum of understanding signed in mid-June between the United States and Iran (which...
The United States targeted the perimeter of Iran's only civilian nuclear plant with a strike on Thursday, Iranian state media reported, citing the deputy governor of Bushehr province....
Damascus welcomed a U.S. announcement that it would remove Syria from its list of "state sponsors of terrorism," a move that one economist told AFP opened the door to economic recovery...
The 2026 NATO summit in Ankara, held at the Beştepe presidential complex amid exceptional security measures, was one of the alliance’s most politically charged meetings in years. Not because it...
Lebanese pianist, composer, and musicologist Elia Koussa gave a piano recital on July 7 at Beit Tabaris, performing works by Scarlatti, Gibbons, Debussy, Rameau, and Chopin. Some programs seek...
Iran's Foreign Ministry denounced U.S. strikes against the country on Thursday, which it said targeted civilian infrastructure including railway bridges, as a "gross war crime." The...
The United States struck scores of targets in Iran, including the railway line between Tehran and Mashhad, hours before late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was due to be buried in the eastern Iranian...
An AFP correspondent in the Bahraini capital Manama heard explosions on Thursday as air-raid sirens were activated for a third time, hours after Iranian attacks in the night. "The siren has...
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her powerful, haunting love song "Total Eclipse of the Heart," has died at age 75 in a hospital in Portugal, her family announced Thursday. With...
BEIRUT — Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rassamny visited Damascus on Thursday at the head of a delegation; he was received by Syrian Customs Department head Qatiba Badawi at his office...
Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri condemned the incursion into southern Lebanon earlier this week by a small group of settlers from the extremist movement "Uri Tzafon," warning that the...
The son outlived the father by a matter of seconds. When the United States and Israel struck Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s official residence in Tehran on Feb. 28, killing him instantly along with...
From the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea, from southern Lebanon to the heart of Damascus, and on to the eastern Mediterranean and the straits of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles: the region is in...
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, once again strongly criticized on Wednesday the framework agreement reached between Lebanon and Israel and the direct negotiations set to continue...
BEIRUT — On a day marked by sporadic shelling and demolitions in south Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israeli forces “will continue to remain” in the area controlled by its...
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Israel of wiping out families in its strikes on Lebanon during its war with Hezbollah, calling for these attacks to be investigated as war crimes. Despite...
A plane carrying the coffin of late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei landed in the eastern holy city of Mashhad on Thursday, ahead of his burial, state media reported. Official news agency IRNA...
Lebanon is demanding Israel’s withdrawal from two “pilot zones” in the South as a condition for participating in the next round of direct negotiations in Rome next week, a diplomatic source...
The train service between Tehran and Mashhad has been suspended after U.S. strikes, state TV reported on Thursday, hours before late supreme leader Ali Khamenei was due to be buried in the eastern...
"Meet at 8:30 p.m. for a historic conversation between Lebanese and Israeli citizens." This is one of two text messages that several Lebanese received on their mobile phones Tuesday...
Iran's military said it had targeted sites in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain with exploding drones on Thursday, state media reported, in retaliation for U.S. strikes earlier in the day. The army...
The United States and Iran traded strikes on Thursday for the second day in a row in a battle over the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The vital oil shipping corridor is a flashpoint in the Middle...
21:52 Beirut Time Explosions heard in several areas of southern Iran Several explosions were heard in southern parts of Iran including Bushehr, where one of Iran's nuclear plants...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, July 9, 2026 Some key things to watch today:Updates on US-Iran overnight exchange of strikes.9 a.m.: Minister of State for...
