The judicial offensive launched by the central bank's governor, Karim Souhaid, against officials responsible for transactions carried out during the tenure of his predecessor, Riad Salameh,...
The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as long as the U.S. does not change its behavior and accept Iran's conditions to end the war, the newly appointed secretary of Iran's Supreme...
Yemen's coast guard on Tuesday said strikes by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on a cargo vessel killed at least six people near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait off the country's coast. The strikes...
The Lebanese Army announced Tuesday that it seized 1.2 million Captagon pills that were about to be sent abroad, according to a message posted on its account on the social network X. The army said...
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry expressed its "categorical rejection of the Colombian government's decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights,...
Originally from Damascus, Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, will travel to Lebanon and Syria on Sept. 20. Both countries are listed by the U.S. State Department as "do...
Good news for Lebanon’s outdated administration: A $150 million budget allocated by the World Bank to Lebanon will soon be dedicated to its modernization. The memorandum of understanding was signed...
Former Banque du Liban governor Riad Salameh, who is being prosecuted along with former Bank Audi CEO Samir Hanna in a lawsuit filed by the central bank, will be heard for the first time Wednesday...
Colombian volunteers on Tuesday dredged through rubble, searching for survivors from an earthquake that killed at least 240 people and leveled more than a hundred homes and office buildings. The...
Syria on Tuesday slammed the decision to recognise Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights by the new hard-right government of Colombia, which became only the second country to do so after the...
Negotiations over Decree No. 3214 concluded on Monday with a "good agreement," Finance Minister Yassin Jaber said following a meeting held at his ministry. A meeting is scheduled for...
Paramilitary forces attacked a Sudanese border town Tuesday, they and local authorities said, in what an army source told AFP was the latest attack launched "from inside Ethiopian...
The murder of Raya François Chidiac on Sept. 22, 2017, left a lasting mark on the northern Lebanese town of Miziara.Chidiac was 26 years old — the same age as her killer. She was engaged and due to...
Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished the home of a Palestinian who died in July in the most lethal clash in months in the occupied West Bank, residents and the army told AFP. The clash broke out...
Oil prices rose and stock markets mostly fell Tuesday as hopes that the United States and Iran would soon reach a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz faded, fanning inflation fears. Crude has...
In Mecca, after signing a joint defense agreement, Mohammed bin Salman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Shehbaz Sharif prayed together facing the Kaaba. It was a highly symbolic image: three major Muslim...
NORTH LEBANON — North Lebanon’s acting governor, Iman Rafehi, chaired an expanded meeting Tuesday after reports of several jaundice cases, particularly in Tripoli’s Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood, as...
BEIRUT — With a sufficient number of members present to ensure a quorum when the session resumed at 6 p.m., MPs had time to vote on the information law, which had been awaited for over 15 years,...
A small cargo ship was attacked on Tuesday by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, killing three crew members, said two Yemeni coast guard sources and two military...
President Joseph Aoun said on Tuesday that the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel are making progress, noting that in any case, they "remain better than the consequences of the...
A plastic bottle — large or small, for sharing or carrying in your pocket — but always recognizable among a thousand. Its blue cap and matching label have changed in design over the years, but...
BEIRUT — The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will soon remove nuclear material stored at a clandestine site in Syria after the Trump administration reached understandings with Syria and...
SOUTH LEBANON — The security situation remains tense in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli army continued its strikes, artillery fire, and demolition operations in several localities on Tuesday....
A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher and several other former officials to death in absentia for crimes committed during the civil war, marking...
We are living through strange times. Iran is attacking the Gulf, Jordan and even Egypt; Donald Trump is promising to bomb the Islamic Republic "much more forcefully" than last time; and...
BEIRUT — Lebanon took a historic step Tuesday as Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, ending a de facto moratorium that had been in place since January 2004. The amended law removes...
22:36 Beirut Time We are now closing our live coverage for the night. We’ll be back tomorrow morning with more news and updates from Lebanon and the region. 22:35 Beirut...
On Nov. 24, 2025, Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s all-powerful president, was greeted with fanfare at Baabda Palace. After meeting with President Joseph Aoun, the Italo-Swiss official made a major...
During a visit to Tripoli in North Lebanon, where he inspected the oil installations site and the Deir Ammar power plant, Energy and Water Minister Joe Saddi said that the public utility...
Rescue efforts across western Colombia carried into a second day on Tuesday as emergency workers dug through collapsed buildings and flattened homes, amid expectations that the death toll from the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Aug. 11 2026 Some key things to watch today:9:30 a.m.: Opening of a two-day Arab conference on combating money laundering and...
Hezbollah seeks a broader disarmament deal; Israel rejects withdrawal from south Lebanon; parliament passes general amnesty law: Everything you need to know this Thursday 
