On Aug. 31, Israel’s chief of staff vowed to go after Hamas leaders abroad. On Tuesday, that threat was carried out with an unprecedented strike on Doha, the Qatari capital, targeting several...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese government met on Tuesday for three hours, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., and scheduled its next meeting for Thursday, Sept. 11. Among its decisions was the creation of a technology...
The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen on Tuesday, after AFP journalists reported air raid sirens sounding in Jerusalem. "Following the sirens that sounded a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday the Gaza war could end "immediately" if Hamas agrees to a truce proposal put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying Israel...
Will the chronic Jounieh highway traffic jams finally come to an end ? This could be the case as authorities seek to put the highway expansion project "back on track" after years of...
BEIRUT — After meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain al-Tineh on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that the Lebanese Army’s plan to disarm Hezbollah, presented in the Cabinet...
After his meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain al-Tineh, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam confirmed on Tuesday that the army’s plan to disarm militias — Hezbollah chief among them — across...
Pope Leo, who typically refrains from speaking off the cuff, expressed unusually forceful concern on Tuesday about the consequences of Israel's strike in Qatar. "There's some really...
Spain has banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares announced during a...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun described the increase in tuition fees at private schools as "unacceptable and unjustified" during a meeting Tuesday at the Baabda Palace with a delegation...
BEIRUT — An Israeli strike in Qatar's capital, Doha, on Tuesday killed six people, including five Hamas members and a Qatari security forces officer. Six consecutive blasts were heard...
This time, he is at the heart of power. For the first time in years, Lebanese Forces Leader Samir Geagea spoke after the annual Mass in memory of the “martyrs of the Lebanese resistance,” not as an...
The Cabinet began a meeting on Tuesday, shortly after 3 p.m., at the Grand Serail — the first since it approved, on Friday, the Lebanese Army's plan to disarm militias in Lebanon, primarily...
Is Tom Barrack’s initiative in Lebanon already at an impasse? To answer that question, one must look at his methodology, the broader American approach, and the specific conditions in Lebanon and...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army is set to fully disarm Hezbollah near the border with Israel within three months, Foreign Minister Joe Rajji told AFP on Tuesday. In August, the Lebanese government...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army on Tuesday demolished the home of a Palestinian detainee accused of carrying out a deadly attack on a bus in the occupied West Bank last December. The detainee,...
Mount Lebanon Investigative Judge Tarek Bou Nassar issued a ruling late last week accusing former Casino du Liban CEO Roland Khoury and Jad Gharios, CEO of Online Support Services (OSS), of...
Long-awaited by much of the public, the judicial investigations into fund transfers abroad are progressing, despite the rumors and conflicting information that have leaked since Financial...
Israel accepted a briefly worded proposal drawn up by U.S. President Donald Trump for an end to the war on Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Tuesday during a press conference in...
Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Minister Kamal Shehadi, also the minister for the displaced, on Tuesday stressed the need "to create an appropriate legislative and...
BEIRUT — Speaking during a Transition and Resilience Education Fund (TREF) meeting at the Grand Serail on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called for Lebanon's education system to update its...
As part of the L’Orient-Le Jour festival at the Beirut Hippodrome, a roundtable titled “Creating under constraints: artists under surveilled freedoms” will bring together three leading figures in...
BEIRUT — The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, said Monday that the pressures previously exerted on former Prime Minister Saad Hariri to influence his approach to Hezbollah...
Once again, the Lebanese people feel that their attempts to turn the page on a 17-year-long dominance by Hezbollah over local politics have stalled because of the Hezbollah-Amal alliance’s control...
Over 1,800 actors, entertainers, and producers, including some Hollywood stars, signed a pledge released on Monday refusing to work with Israeli film institutions or any companies complicit in...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese committee and a Syrian committee, tasked by their respective countries to monitor relations following the fall of the Assad regime, held their first meeting in Damascus...
TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will meet on Tuesday with United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi in Egypt, the first such meeting since Tehran suspended cooperation...
A Californian breeze sweeps over the Normandy beaches — the kind that makes you forget the gray skies. Around a piece of wood adorned with an American flag, about 10 journalists wait, eyes and...
The Global Sumud Flotilla for Gaza said on Tuesday that one of its main boats was struck by a drone in Tunisian waters, though all six passengers and crew are safe. The Portuguese-flagged boat,...
Some places never truly disappear. Even after the curtains close, the dust settles on the seats and the neon lights fade, they linger in collective memory. The Colisée is one of them.Nestled in the...
22:34 Beirut Time Qatar told the U.N. Security Council that the Israeli attack constitutes a "serious escalation," which the country "condemns," calling it a...
BEIRUT — Gasoline prices recorded their fifth consecutive increase on Tuesday since Aug. 22, for a total rise of LL31,000 over this period, or $0.35 at the exchange rate of LL89,500 to the dollar,...
Officials from the French Levant Hospital in Sin al-Fil and the University Hospital Center of Montpellier announced Friday that they had carried out Lebanon’s first attempt at a relatively new...
BEIRUT — An Israeli drone struck a car parked near a mosque in Zarout, located between the towns of Jiyyeh and Barja, in the Chouf district, about 20 kilometers south of Beirut, critically injuring...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. You're invited!For the first time in its history, L’Orient‑Le Jour hosts its own...
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
