Mandated by the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Rami al-Hajj, the deputy public prosecutor at this court, Samaranda Nassar, questioned former Banque du Liban (BDL) governor Riad...
U.S. President Donald Trump stated Wednesday, from the G7 summit in Evian, that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun would make a visit to Washington "in a week or two." Trump had already...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said Wednesday that the negotiations led by Lebanon with Israel since April under Washington’s auspices, which his party had previously opposed, must be...
BEIRUT — Education Minister Rima Karameh is seeking alternatives for this year’s official Baccalaureate exams after the Cabinet opted not to take a final decision on whether they should proceed,...
Cabinet approved, during its meeting on Monday, the creation of the Beirut International Airport Company, a joint-stock company aimed at moving part of the management and operation of Beirut's...
Lina Khatib is an expert on Middle East international relations, geopolitics, and security. She is an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. Many initial...
President Joseph Aoun assured that the negotiations conducted by the government with Israel remain "independent" from the agreement on the verge of being concluded between the United...
Dear reader, With everything going on politically in this country, and with all of us basically watching things happen above us and having no control over it, I think one of the few things I can...
It’s not every day that you come across a university professor who tells you: “Stop trying to explain everything.” When, moreover, the injunction comes from Mohammad al-Rawas, the paradox is all...
Anyone who knows Clara Chammas — or her 20,000 followers on her Instagram account — knows that she is something of a phenomenon. That likely explains why "Hello Healthy Days," the brand...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Thursday, a day after G7 leaders expressed support for Lebanon, according to a Lebanese government source...
The United States and Israel hoped to deal a lasting blow to Iran, or even bring about its collapse.After nearly four months of war, which ended on Monday with an agreement to halt hostilities,...
BEIRUT — Amnesty International said in a report published Wednesday that Israel expanded the 'no-return' zone it occupies in Lebanon to approximately 6% of its territory, as part of what...
The incident took place last weekend in the countryside around Salqin, in northwestern Idlib. In broad daylight and on a public street, a man was lynched to death by a crowd taking justice into its...
U.S President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the memorandum of understanding with Iran was not final, and that he could resume attacks if he did not like it. "It's a memorandum of...
The leaders gathered at the G7 summit in Evian, France, supported in a joint statement released Wednesday the implementation of an "immediate robust" cease-fire in Lebanon and the...
"If rescue teams had been granted access sooner to the site of the Israeli strike in southern Lebanon — in Tir Harfa, in the Bint Jbeil district — journalist Amal Khalil would probably have...
At a press conference on June 15, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed more like a fighter laying down his arms: he spoke of his "achievements" in the past tense rather than...
BEIRUT — The Nabatieh region, north of the Litani River, remained the focus of Israeli military attacks in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, despite the cessation of hostilities supposedly included in...
As if offering himself an 80th birthday present, Donald Trump announced on June 15 that a preliminary agreement had been reached with Iran to end the war in the Middle East on all fronts. Already...
14:06 Beirut Time Trump proposed that Israel withdraw from Lebanon and that Syria disarm Hezbollah with its own army. He says Israel is causing too much collateral damage and that Syria...
My first experience as a journalist dates back to 1979. At the time, I co-authored a major investigative report for L’Orient-Le Jour on Lebanese youth entitled The Kalashnikov Generation . I was...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a rare public rebuke of Israel's military actions in Lebanon, saying it was unnecessary to bomb entire apartment buildings to hunt militants....
After a version of the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran — officially signed remotely Wednesday night by Donald Trump and Massoud Pezeshkian — was leaked to several...
Israel’s use of white phosphorus munitions in southern Lebanon has been documented since the 2024 war, as well as in earlier wars. More recently, their large-scale use was observed during the...
22:26 Beirut Time Trump says continued war with Iran could have caused 'global economic depression' American President Donald Trump defended the agreement concluded with Iran during...
A $300 billion private fund designed to trigger investment into Iran is outlined in the U.S.-Iran framework agreement, and more than half that sum has already been committed, a source with direct...
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes on Iran, the United States government revealed in a legal briefing seen Tuesday by AFP . The June 15 brief defends the gas...
