BEIRUT — In response to the proposed amnesty law, deemed "unjust and inequitable" by relatives of Islamist detainees, protest movements were reported Tuesday in several regions of...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban (BDL) governor Karim Souhaid elected president of the Arab Monetary Fund’s board of governors, an-Nahar reports. The election took place during the 49th meeting of the...
BEIRUT — Before his departure on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Lebanon Walid Boukhari paid two visits, first to Meerab and then to Mirna Chalouhi to meet with the two rivals on the...
NORTH LEBANON — Public Works Minister Fayez Rasamny announced Tuesday that Sky Lounge Services has won the bid to rehabilitate and relaunch Rene Moawad Airport, a flagship project of the Nawaf...
The European Union, Denmark, and France have allocated a package of 32 million euros (about $37 million) to the Lebanese government to support areas affected by the conflict between Hezbollah and...
Another Lebanese-style compromise. After several weeks of debate, the joint committees on Tuesday adopted a draft general amnesty law with amendments taking into account the demands of the parties...
In a rare glimpse into Lebanese public opinion, al-Jadeed local channel and the statistics firm Information International released on Monday the results of a poll conducted gauging views across the...
She arrives with understated majesty. It is hard to imagine a multi-award-winning icon entering any other way. In a spacious suite reconfigured for the occasion at the Carlton, she greets the...
“If Lebanon were not my country, I would have chosen it to be,” wrote Gibran Khalil Gibran, Lebanon’s most renowned author in the first half of the 20th century.Yet, on a plaque accompanying an...
Oil prices eased Tuesday but remained above $100 a barrel while stocks wavered as investors tracked a potential deal between the U.S. and Iran to end a war that has sent energy prices soaring....
Iran's army warned on Tuesday it would "open new fronts" against the United States if it resumes attacks, after President Donald Trump said he had held off launching a new offensive...
There are films that, in just 20 minutes, send a message of unprecedented power. A small documentary that echoes a great cry of distress. A despair built over time, which only deepens the fractures...
A drone attack killed 28 people and injured 23 more at a market in the paramilitary-controlled Sudanese town of Ghubaysh in West Kordofan on Tuesday, a medical source and three witnesses told AFP...
BEIRUT — On Tuesday, Minister of Trade and Economy Amer Bisat inaugurated a new solar energy installation at the Rachid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, our regional correspondent reported....
The Israeli army has seized about 1,000 square kilometers of territory in Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, British newspaper the...
One Syrian soldier was killed, at least 12 were wounded by a car bomb that exploded outside a Defense Ministry building in Damascus, the ministry said in a statement carried by state media....
BEIRUT — The director general of General Security (GS) Hassan Shoucair traveled to Iraq to meet with the country's new prime minister Ali al-Zaidi , who was appointed in April, according to a...
In Saudi Arabia, calm had seemed to return. The last attacks dated back more than a month, when the cease-fire between Iran and the United States began to take shape. However, on May 17, the...
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far-right finance minister, said on Tuesday he was informed that the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Hague has requested a "secret"...
Gathered around a Revolutionary Guard in central Tehran, an audience of Iranians is learning to use an AK-47 assault rifle, in case it falls to them to defend the country from renewed U.S. attacks....
SOUTH LEBANON — Deadly Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon continued unabated on Tuesday despite a nominal "cease-fire" reached on April 16 and extended for 45 days last Friday....
BEIRUT — In an interview with Lebanese media outlet Asas , Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said there is "greater American commitment than before" to efforts aimed at consolidating the...
The draft general amnesty law has been stuck in long and tedious negotiations for months, even years. The rise of President Ahmad al-Sharaa to power in Syria and his insistence on transferring...
BEIRUT — The joint committees on finance and budget, administration and justice, national defense, interior and municipalities, as well as human rights, met at Parliament around noon to review the...
Somaliland celebrated its first independence day on Monday since being recognized as a country by Israel, but not everyone in the breakaway region of Somalia has welcomed its new ally. Thousands...
BEIRUT — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not only met with high-ranking Emirati officials during his "secret" visit to the United Arab Emirates, but also held additional...
The organizers of an aid flotilla bound for Gaza said on Tuesday Israeli forces had intercepted 41 of their boats in the eastern Mediterranean, with 10 vessels still sailing toward the enclave....
A document from the "Peace council," an international body set up by the United States primarily to organize post-war Gaza, lists numerous obstacles hindering its implementation,...
A gunman has killed eight people and injured five others in Egypt's southern Assiut province, before he was shot dead by security forces, authorities said. The shooting took place on Monday in...
BEIRUT — Health Minister Rakan Nasreddine said in Geneva on Tuesday, speaking before World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, that Israel has killed 116 health...
Because of the war and its impact, discussion about using Lebanon’s gold reserves to help solve the banking crisis was sidelined for a while, but the idea has not disappeared. In the Association of...
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea hosted the Syrian chargé d’affaires in Lebanon, Iyad al-Hazzaa, in Meerab for an "introductory contact." The Christian leader, a fierce opponent of...
Iran's recent proposal to the United States calls for the lifting of sanctions on Tehran, the release of frozen Iranian funds, and an end to the maritime blockade on the country, Iran's...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, May 19, 2026 Some key things to watch today:11 a.m.: Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called a joint parliamentary committee...
22:47 Beirut Time Iran: Vance speaks of ‘good progress’ in talks U.S. Vice-President JD Vance has stated that "good progress" is being made in talks with Iran, whilst...
Has Nabih Berri put an end to the political maneuvering? As debate intensifies over the proposed general amnesty law, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called the joint parliamentary committees to...
On March 23, 1949, in Ras Naqoura, Lebanese served champagne, cake, and bananas, while Israeli engineers cleared their landmines from fields. They were gathered to sign a historic agreement: an...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to host his "old friend" Vladimir Putin less than a week after Donald Trump's high-profile visit, as Beijing seeks to project itself as a stable and...
Two teenage gunmen opened fire on Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, California, killing a security guard and two other men outside the mosque before the suspects were found dead,...
