Father Dario Escobar, a Colombian hermit who became an emblematic figure of the Qadisha Valley in northern Lebanon, has died at age 92, several local media outlets reported Monday. Originally from...
Iran’s Embassy in Beirut announced Monday new measures governing the entry of Lebanese citizens into Iran, appearing to ease visa restrictions imposed by Tehran two weeks ago. Starting May 22,...
The number of people killed by Israeli attacks in Lebanon since the start of the war on March 2 has surpassed 3,000, according to figures from the Health Ministry. The Ministry said 3,020 people...
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam issued a circular on Monday ordering the closure of public administrations, public institutions and municipalities for the Eid al-Adha holiday. "On the...
The Finance Ministry published a decision Monday adjusting several tax relief measures for the benefit of taxpayers, administrations, and institutions that are victims of Israeli bombardments....
On a quiet street at the entrance to Gemmayzeh, a 1930s facade has come back to life after a year and a half of renovations. Behind the restored shutters of this listed building — once converted...
The war and the crises that have upended life in Lebanon over the past seven years have done little to slow the momentum of wellness professional. That sentiment was shared by several professionals...
The United Nations demanded Monday that Israel take measures to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza, and decried indications of ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian territory and in the occupied West...
It’s a distinction few countries would boast about: someone born and raised in Lebanon since the mid-1980s has almost certainly never spent a day without a power outage. None of the more than 15...
At the corner of Tripoli’s old souk, facing the ancient citadel, the stone walls still carry the dust and cracks of time, while narrow alleyways pulse with the quiet rhythm of modest shops.In this...
Rayane Saadeh is a computer and communications engineer. Israel-Lebanon Boundary, Sheet number 2. Survey Department – Israel, December 1949. Image from the annex of "لبنان في مواجهة...
President Joseph Aoun said on Monday that the "framework set by Lebanon for the direct negotiations with Israel consists of an Israeli withdrawal, a cease-fire, the deployment of the Lebanese...
The title is somewhat misleading: it’s still too early to draw any definitive conclusions about the consequences of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. The final chapter has yet to be written. We...
Syria will participate on Monday in a closed-door session with the finance ministers and central bank governors of the G7 in Paris, a source close to the matter told Reuters , in a sign of the...
Israeli strikes have killed at least six people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to the local Health Ministry. On Sunday, several Israeli strikes targeted different areas of the...
By Sunday night, one thing was clear in the halls of Cannes: with ''La Sentinelle,'' Ali Cherri may have delivered one of the Critics’ Week’s most striking entries — a mesmerizing...
The New York Times (NYT) revealed in an investigation that Israel used a second secret base in the Iraqi desert for more than a year in order to support its wars against Iran. The U.S. daily...
The Israeli strike carried out Friday evening, May 15, in the Remal neighborhood of Gaza City likely marks the end of a generation of commanders directly involved in planning the Oct. 7 events. In...
Iran's top security body announced on Monday the formation of a new body to manage the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has effectively closed and wants to charge ships to traverse. On its...
On the Lebanese–Palestinian border, on March 27, 1934, many were waiting for Dr. Haim Weizmann to arrive. The Russian-born chemist, who became a British citizen, had traded in his lab for the plush...
The Monday morning hearing in the corruption trial against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been canceled "for last-minute political and security reasons that prevent the Prime...
An Islamic Jihad official was killed along with his daughter overnight Sunday to Monday in an Israeli strike on Baalbeck, our correspondent in the region reports. Shortly after 1 a.m. Monday, an...
A drone strike caused a fire at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, officials there said on Sunday, while Saudi Arabia reported intercepting three drones, as U.S. President Donald...
23:27 Beirut Time UAE restores power to Barakah nuclear plant after drone attack, IAEA says The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had been informed by the United Arab Emirates...
Lebanon is continuing its efforts to consolidate the cease-fire while Israel continues to act as it sees fit. In this context, everything suggests that Washington is trying to establish new rules...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, May 18, 2026 Some key things to watch today:9:30 a.m. Meeting of the Committee on Public Health, Labor, and Social Development,...
BEIRUT — Israeli strikes killed seven people in Lebanon on Sunday, including an Islamic Jihad commander, Lebanese authorities and state media said, despite a nominal "cease-fire" in...
