BEIRUT – The ambassadors from Egypt, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United States have announced that some Lebanese political groups are ready to elect a president "before the end of May...
AKKAR — A suspected smuggler, known as "Abu Johnny," alleged to have illegally facilitated the passage of numerous Syrians into Lebanon, was arrested on Thursday by State Security patrol in Akkar,...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army raided Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, on Thursday, to arrest "significant drug traffickers," according to a military source...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Ministry of Industry shut down four food production factories on Thursday, including Alpha Interfood and A-Z Manufacturing, having proven the facilities were...
“Please, come in!” said Doha al-Dali, 23, who has been married for nearly 10 years. Doha is a mother of four, with the youngest aged one and a half. She welcomed us into her house, which lacked...
Outgoing Prime Minister Najib Mikati told UN chief Antonio Guterres that his cabinet is "determined to find a solution" to the situation of Syrians in Lebanon — "whatever the obstacles" — during a...
Palestinian president Mahm0ud Abbas on Thursday said Hamas gave Israel an excuse to wage war on Gaza with its Oct. 7 attack from the Palestinian territory. "The military...
For the past week, the press and media have been abuzz about the findings of a Court of Audit report concerning tax stamps in Lebanon. This 69-page document, disseminated to Parliament, the...
The health ministry in Gaza said Thursday that at least 35,272 people have been killed in the territory during more than seven months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants....
If it hadn’t been broadcast live, yesterday’s general debate in Parliament could have ended in an hour, instead of three and a half. But in front of the cameras, more than 30 MPs spoke from the...
BEIRUT – The investigating judge in Mount Lebanon, Ziad al-Dghaydi, charged George Hanna Deeb, known on social media as "Dr. Food," with "manufacturing, trafficking and drug...
US troops early Thursday anchored a long-awaited temporary pier, meant to boost aid deliveries into war-ravaged Gaza, to a beach in the besieged Palestinian territory, the US military said....
Israel's military said Thursday that five soldiers had been killed by friendly fire in Gaza's north, where intense fighting has resumed more than seven months into its war against Hamas militants....
Israeli troops shot and killed three men during clashes in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said early Thursday. Several others were injured during the...
Like hundreds of other pro-Turkish fighters, Omar left northern Syria for mineral-rich Niger last year, joining Syrian mercenaries sent to the West African nation by a private Turkish military...
Host Bahrain called for a Middle East peace conference Thursday at the start of an Arab League summit dominated by the Israel-Hamas war, which has been raging in the Gaza Strip without a ceasefire...
South Africa will ask the top UN court on Thursday to order an immediate halt to Israel's incursion in Rafah, describing it as a "genocidal" operation threatening the "very survival of...
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday said the militant movement will be involved in deciding post-war rule in Gaza along with other Palestinian factions. "We say that...
22:41 Beirut Time That's it for today's live coverage of the war on Gaza and its repercussions in the region, especially in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah and Israel continue their...
Last week, eleven Iraqis transiting through Beirut International Airport were turned back by Saudi authorities and briefly detained in Lebanon. An incident that angered Iraqi politicians. What...
Like other high-profile security incidents in Lebanon, the kidnapping and murder of Lebanese Forces (LF) official Pascal Sleiman has provoked tension in the streets, but also a storm on social...
Hezbollah claimed on Wednesday to have intensively targeted military sites in northern Israel, in response to an Israeli strike that killed a local commander of the party the previous day. In a...
The president of the Beiteddine Festival, Nora Joumblatt, issued a press release announcing the cancellation of the 2024 edition. Explaining the reasons for this decision, she stated that “at a...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 222 of the Gaza war here . A Hamas rocket misfire from southern Lebanon killed...
