In the highly anticipated municipal battle of Zahle, the capital of the Bekaa, which will take place Sunday in this region, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM, Aounist) decided Saturday evening not...
Morocco announced Saturday the reopening of its embassy in Syria, closed since 2012, King Mohammed VI said in a message to the Arab summit in Baghdad, cited by AFP. In a letter read on his behalf...
Multiple fires broke out on Saturday in several Lebanese regions, fueled by a heat wave. In South Lebanon, our correspondent reports several outbreaks, notably in the regions of Majdelzoun, Azzieh,...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will hold a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday at 10 a.m. (2 p.m. GMT), Reuters reports. Topics for this...
The 26 songs in the Eurovision final on Saturday will lead viewers to choose between the humor of an ode to the sauna, the regret of squandered love, the promise of a new dawn after horror, the...
Emirati businessman Khalaf al-Habtoor, known for his significant investments in Lebanon, criticized on Saturday on his Facebook page the alliances of many parties on the same list in the Beirut...
Berlin expressed Saturday its "deep concern about the situation in Gaza, targeted by an expanded Israeli offensive that 'could endanger the lives of the remaining hostages, including...
Arab summit held on Saturday in Baghdad called for increased international pressure to ‘stop the bloodshed’ in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, where Israel has announced an intensification of its...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who flew to Rome on Saturday to attend the inauguration Mass of the new Pope Leo XIV the following day, held talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Baabda...
Saudi Arabia condemned on Saturday "the ongoing Israeli military escalation in Gaza against unarmed civilians, especially the strike on the European hospital in Khan Younis, which resulted in...
Multiple fires broke out Saturday in several Lebanese regions, fueled by a heatwave. In South Lebanon, our correspondent reports several fire outbreaks, particularly in the regions of Majdelzoun,...
Detained for seven weeks in Turkey and convicted for "insulting" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Swedish journalist Joakim Medin celebrated his freedom on Saturday, just a few...
A senior Hamas official stated Saturday that a new round of indirect negotiations with Israel aimed at ending the war in Gaza has begun in Doha "without any preconditions." "This...
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday urged the United States to leave the Middle East, as the two countries are engaged in indirect discussions about Iran's nuclear...
Syrian security forces raided Islamic State hideouts in Aleppo on Saturday, killing at least one militant and arresting others, Interior Ministry said, the first time such an operation has been...
“We must say to the Israeli government: that's enough,” said Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Saturday regarding Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip. “We no longer want to see the...
U.S. sanctions on Turkey's defense sector have eased under President Donald Trump and their lifting is likely, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday. "We can easily say...
He began his second term with promises of peace. But after four months in the White House and four days visiting the Middle East, the "Trump Tour" ended without concrete progress on Gaza....
Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine conducted an inspection tour on Saturday at the Rafic Hariri Hospital in Beirut, which suffered severely during the economic and financial crisis in the country...
Iranian Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence for famous rapper Amir Tatalou, found guilty of "blasphemy," the judiciary spokesperson announced on Saturday. This 37-year-old singer...
The airport in Sanaa, controlled by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, resumed its activities on Saturday, about ten days after being bombed by the Israeli army, announced the Houthi authorities. The...
In Batroun, a new political figure needs to be considered, one who seems to stand out from the rest. Majd Harb, the son of former deputy and minister Boutros Harb, left his mark (along with his...
BEIRUT — Speaking at the Arab summit held in Baghdad on Saturday, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Lebanon has opened a new chapter in its history "with a clear policy" based on reforms and the...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday in Tirana encouraged tourists to come to Europe, and visit Albania, a country he assured would be in the European Union in "two years."...
First direct peace talks since 2022 between Russia and Ukraine, in Istanbul this week, were "extremely important" towards ending the war, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in...
The restructuring of the banking sector continues to flounder. While parliamentary debates on the banking resolution bill are now confined to an ad hoc subcommittee, experts from the International...
The Israeli army announced on Saturday it was expanding its offensive to defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where its bombings killed ten people in the morning, according to rescue workers, after...
Donald Trump certainly took advantage of his visit to the Gulf to make multiple headline-generating announcements. Along with the billions of dollars in contracts promised by Arab leaders to...
Culture Minister Ghassan Salame on Saturday announced a decision to exempt all visitors from the entry fee to the National Museum and museums at the Beiteddine Palace on Sunday, in celebration of...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called on Saturday to "pressure Israel to stop the massacre in Gaza," specifying that Spain will present a draft resolution to the U.N. for the...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi on Saturday called on his American counterpart Donald Trump to "push" for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, where Israel announced it would...
Morgan Ortagus, the American envoy to Lebanon, gave an interview on Thursday evening to the local channel LBCI, where she was asked about the impact of President Donald Trump's visit to the...
Iran's Khamenei urges the United States to "leave" the Middle East
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Saturday for a "permanent cease-fire" in the Gaza Strip, just hours after Israel announced an intensification of its offensive in the...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun was en route Saturday to the Vatican, accompanied by his wife Neemat, to participate in the enthronement mass of Pope Leo XIV, which will be celebrated on Sunday at...
On the eve of the highly anticipated municipal elections in Beirut, Beqaa, and Baalbek-Hermel, Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar supervised the distribution of ballot boxes from the central operations...
Iraq, hosting the Arab League summit, pledged on Saturday to allocate $40 million for reconstruction in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, both devastated by months of conflict involving Israel, Hamas,...
"The Parliament speaker is a baltaji [thug in Arabic] who takes Parliament hostage and wants to muzzle the MPs ... It's shameful." These were the words of Cynthia Zarazir, a Beirut...
Gaza's Civil Defense announced Saturday that 10 people were killed in Israeli bombings, after the army announced it was intensifying its offensive aimed at defeating Hamas. These new raids...
Lebanese Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, emphasized Friday evening in Baghdad to the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, the need for the "protection of the Palestinian...
The mokhtar ("chosen one" in Arabic), or mokhtara for a woman, is an elected figure of a city or village in Lebanon, a public officer who acts as an intermediary between the...
Kremlin said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but only if certain agreements were reached. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not...
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday in Tirana that he is "sure" Donald Trump will "react" to Vladimir Putin's "cynicism" following new Russian drone...
Major fire broke out at midnight Saturday in a Syrian refugee camp in the village of Khirbet Daoud in Akkar (North Lebanon), without causing any casualties, the state-run National News Agency (NNA)...
Arab countries are meeting Saturday in Baghdad to discuss the war in the Gaza Strip and other regional crises, although the summit is marked by the absence of several leaders, notably from the...
British police have charged three Iranian men with offences under the National Security Act after a major counter-terrorism investigation, the police said on Saturday. British counter-terrorism...
Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had killed a Hezbollah "commander" in southern Lebanon, in its fourth deadly strike in the neighboring country this week. Despite a cease-fire...
Start with the dough first. Place the flour into a heatproof bowl. Add the boiling water, the salt and half of the melted butter. Save the other half of the butter for cooking the roti. The mixture...
The approach is unusual. The Lebanese Army has broken its silence to create — with the collaboration of seasoned journalists — a documentary on its role in southern Lebanon, broadcast by...
The encounter occurred serendipitously by the restrooms of an amphitheater. Despite the 23 degrees, Claude Lelouch in a beige bomber promised an interview, saying, « Meet me at the Carlton tomorrow...
