Israeli officials are escalating their rhetoric again, renewing threats amid growing tensions in the Middle East ahead of Israel’s Oct. 27 legislative elections. Israeli Defense Minister Israel...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi agreed during a phone call Wednesday on “the need to support diplomatic solutions to end conflicts in the region,” the...
A visiting senior United Nations official on Wednesday reaffirmed the body's commitment to stability in Lebanon as the mandate of its peacekeeping force in the country is set to expire this...
Youmna Nahas is part of the Promofair team behind the Experia expo, a platform bringing together stakeholders in Lebanon’s tech and innovation sectors, as well as potential partners and audiences....
At 74, Roger Basile is still working. In his law office in Rio de Janeiro, he shows little inclination to retire. “What would I do? Stay at home?” Born in Jbeil, this Lebanese-Brazilian moved to...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun received a phone call from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday, during which the two agreed on the "need to support diplomatic solutions to end...
When U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost emerged on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in May 2025 as Pope Leo XIV, the new leader of the Catholic Church, he struck a stark contrast from his...
A container ship has sunk near the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile, while a separate dry bulk carrier damaged in an earlier attack is also reported to be sinking, maritime security...
Between 2017 and 2024, as the Assad regime retook much of Syria from opposition groups and the world looked away, a small team of Syrian researchers working with the Synaps research laboratory in...
BEIRUT — Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday threatened to empty and strike the southern suburb of Beirut and to expand Israeli occupation into southern Lebanon if Hezbollah joins...
A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army vehicle killed an Iraqi army brigadier and a soldier near the northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, the military said, in the second attack on Iraqi security...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) remain high on the agenda in international discussions, as the Israeli army continues its assault on the South, with no...
BEIRUT — U.S. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Tuesday that Washington is continuing its contacts with Lebanon and Israel to advance negotiations between the two countries, which have...
Less than a year after MP Ghassan Skaff (Greek Orthodox/West Bekaa-Rashaya) passed away, the possibility of a by-election to fill his seat is being discussed in political circles. This by-election...
BEIRUT — Lebanon must have a say on the fate of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) deployed in the South. This was one of the points stressed Wednesday by Jean-Pierre Lacroix, U.N....
Colombia on Wednesday officially opened its embassy in Jerusalem, joining a small group of countries including the United States in taking this step. The vast majority of countries keep their...
After Jounieh and Tripoli, Paola Delfin has brought new faces to the walls of Beirut. On a façade of the Beirut Digital District (BDD), as the road turns off the ring road toward the Beshara...
SOUTH LEBANON —Israel carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, following a morning marked by artillery fire, according to reports from our correspondent in the region. Several...
Germany's Greens and center-left Social Democrats (SPD) broke off exploratory talks on forming Berlin's next state government with the far-left Left Party on Tuesday evening to assess...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday that displaced residents of a Palestinian refugee camp would not be allowed to return to their homes, after the supreme court ordered the...
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Wednesday warned that current economic developments and the rapid advance of AI threaten to deepen the gulf between advanced and developing economies, especially...
The intelligence services of the Lebanese Army and the Internal Security Forces are pressing ahead with their investigations into the hundreds of kilos of explosives seized in early October in a...
"We have put all our financial resources, all our reserves, into this edition," says Antoine Saad, director of Saer al-Machreq. His words reveal what is at stake behind the stacks of...
Crowned double world champion in muay thai last September in Kosovo, Fatima Hassan, 27, is the first Lebanese athlete to win two gold medals in the discipline. “I got sick during the tournament,...
Houthi fighters in Yemen claimed responsibility on Wednesday for attacks on an Aramco site and Riyadh airport, after the Saudi authorities reported a strike on a building belonging to the oil...
