In 111 days, from March 2 until the new cease-fire announced as part of the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States on June 20, Israeli attacks devastated Lebanon, a country...
Economy Minister Amer Bisat said during a visit to the district of Nabatieh in the South on Friday that the government is seeking to accelerate reconstruction work, despite noting that progress on...
The Lebanese Committee for the Safeguarding of Sour and the International Association for the Safeguarding of Sour, or AIST, which is accredited by UNESCO, have issued an urgent appeal to protect...
The official reason is the postponement of the memorial service honoring Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly on Saturday, July 11. The delay was attributed to the logistics of accommodating the many...
Unidentified individuals illegally boarded a vessel in the Gulf of Aden, a maritime security agency reported on Friday, with Yemen's coast guard saying it was captured by Somali pirates. The...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban’s Special Investigation Commission (SIC) ordered the freezing of Creditbank shareholder Fadi Barbar’s Lebanese bank accounts and lifted banking secrecy over them, according...
"Not a day goes by that I don't think of them. I keep replaying the terror they must have felt that day. It's been a year, and I still haven't found sleep again," testifies...
Dear reader, I’ve shared some of my life rules with you over the past few months, but I’ve never mentioned how I refuse to buy coffee from a coffee shop. This rule doesn't come from budgeting...
Kuwait reported an Iranian attack on a power and water desalination plant Friday, while Bahrain and Qatar said they intercepted missiles after the United States bombed Iran for a sixth consecutive...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army carried out several movements Friday beyond the "buffer zone" it has unilaterally established in southern Lebanon, including an unprecedented advance into...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army continued its attacks in southern Lebanon on Friday, particularly in the Bint Jbeil district, and carried out a morning drone strike on a motorcycle, injuring its rider....
The pattern keeps repeating itself at regular intervals, to the point of becoming the region’s new normal. One month after the fragile memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between...
The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran on Friday and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the warring foes risked further escalation by...
Bilateral cooperation, regional developments and other issues of common interest were the official agenda items of the talks held on Wednesday, July 15, in Riyadh between Syrian Foreign Minister...
Lebanon remains focused on discussions over the proposed "pilot zones," including how they would be implemented and how the Lebanese Army would verify its responsibilities there. But a...
A Syrian military source denied to AFP on Friday that Iran had bombed the Al-Tanf base near Syria's southeastern borders with Jordan and Iraq, after Tehran's Revolutionary Guards said...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah has issued a statement denying "any link" to the publication of a list of nearly 200 figures accused of "collaboration" with Israel, which had been signed by...
BEIRUT — General Security said in a statement on Friday that after receiving information from the Syrian Embassy in Beirut regarding the detention of a family in Nabaa (Metn district) due to...
SOUTH LEBANON — Citizen Saad Salim al-Houdairi, who was kidnapped by Israel after heading to the village of Rmeish (Bint Jbeil district) earlier this week, has been released on Friday by the...
Kuwait said Friday that a power and water plant had been damaged by an Iranian attack, as the war in the Middle East escalated. "One of the power and water distillation plants was the target...
The region is being overshadowed by signs of a broader escalation. The United States appears to be working to assemble an international coalition against Iran. At the same time, Washington...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said Friday they had struck U.S. military aircraft stationed in Jordan with ballistic missiles and drones in retaliation for overnight U.S. strikes. In a...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices saw a significant increase this week, in a context marked by Tuesday’s resumption of the American blockade on Iranian ports, as well as Iran’s announcement of the...
The Trump administration moved on Thursday to tighten the duration of visas for foreign students, cultural exchange visitors and journalists. The new final rule from the Department of Homeland...
Drone and rocket strikes killed nine members of an exiled Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group in Iraq's Kurdistan region on Friday, the group said, blaming the attack on Iran. In Erbil, the...
Banque du Liban (Central Bank, BDL) has completed a preliminary assessment of the banking sector's recapitalization needs, estimating them at $2.268 billion. However, the central bank has made...
British police said on Friday they had charged a 39-year-old man on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service, the latest in a series of incidents involving Tehran and offences covered...
The war in southern Lebanon was not merely a battle fought under bombardment. It has left behind a question that extends beyond the scale of the destruction itself.After months of displacement,...
Iran said it launched fresh strikes on U.S. facilities in the Middle East on Friday, including the first direct attack in Syria, after a sixth straight night of U.S. strikes on Iranian military...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they had attacked a U.S. special operations command centre at al-Tanf in Syria in retaliation for the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr, state...
00:03 Beirut Time We are now closing our live coverage for the night. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 00:03 Beirut Time Thai-flagged vessel...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, July 17, 2026 Some key things to watch out for today:11 a.m.: Conference on a draft law to abolish the death penalty in...
