Less than a week after reaching a preliminary agreement between the United States and Iran aimed at ending the regional war, Washington opted for a political escalation against Hezbollah. On...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun received a phone call Friday evening from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Lebanese presidency announced on its X account. The visit to Washington by the...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem raised his tone Friday as he delivered a religious speech ahead of the Ashura celebrations. He spoke of "Hezbollah's victory"...
BEIRUT — She stood firm through two wars, refusing to abandon her home in Mansouri just a few meters from the beach and the sea turtles she watched over for a quarter century. Environmental...
SOUTH LEBANON — Lebanon held its breath. On Friday, it experienced one of the deadliest days since the announcement on Monday of an Iranian-American memorandum of understanding calling for a...
Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah agreed to a cease-fire on Friday, a U.S. official said, after an escalation in hostilities in Lebanon sorely tested the U.S.-Iranian interim deal to end the wider...
Syrian authorities have detained an online activist over a campaign calling on influential figures to make good on pledges to donate money to a public development fund after the fall of Bashar...
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Mohamed Barakat is a writer, political activist and PhD student in media science.It is a mistake to think that dealing with Hezbollah through a military means will bring about the political change...
The National Youth Orchestra of Lebanon, under the underwhelming baton of Karim Said at the Armenian Evangelical Church of Qantari, opened its concert with an excellent rendition of the Lebanese...
A year ago, 150 public and private schools selected from across the country joined the School of Citizenship program launched by First Lady Neemat Aoun, with the support of UNESCO, the Education...
“Had we known what the political consequences of this operation would be, it is highly unlikely that we would have embarked on this venture,” an Israeli official told the i24 channel. As matters...
An Arab-European summit was held in Nicosia, Cyprus, on April 24, as the country held the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU).In the conference center lobby, around 30...
BEIRUT — At least three Hezbollah operatives captured in recent fighting were reportedly treated at Ziv Medical Center in Safed under Israeli military guard, according to sources cited by The...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun on Friday condemned the Israeli escalation in south Lebanon and north Bekaa that has killed several less than 24 hours. "What we are witnessing today in the...
When the United States and Israel launched their attack on Iran in February, Tehran was quick to retaliate by closing the Strait of Hormuz, shifting the focus of the conflict towards its...
Italy's foreign minister on Friday cancelled a visit to the United States over reported comments by U.S. President Donald Trump that appeared to mock Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. "The...
BEIRUT — The families of the victims of the Tleil fuel tank explosion, which killed 30 people in 2021 in Akkar, welcomed on Friday the decision of the Court of Justice to re-arrest two of the main...
Acting U.S. spy chief Bill Pulte is seeking to cut hundreds of jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, CNN reported on Friday, as he prepares to take over the sprawling U.S....
Lebanese Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah told Reuters that Iran had informed the group that talks with the United States could not continue without the implementation of a comprehensive cease-fire....
BEIRUT — Two days after former Banque du Liban (BDL, Central Bank) governor Riad Salameh was questioned at his residence in Safra (Kesrouan) by Deputy General Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation...
The cease-fire declared in Gaza more than eight months ago is a "deadly illusion," the U.N. charged on Friday, with 265 children killed by Israel there since the fighting was supposed to...
Lebanon appears in the very first point. The MoU between Washington and Tehran explicitly calls for the “immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in...
A newly signed deal to end the Middle East war was already under strain on Friday, after talks in Switzerland were postponed and fighting flared between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The...
The U.S. Department of Defense needs $80 billion to cover costs from the Iran war as well as other non-war-related bills, Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg told lawmakers in phone calls...
Egypt's foreign minister will host his counterparts from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in the Mediterranean city of Alamein on Sunday, Cairo's foreign ministry said. Badr Abdelatty...
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Friday that "all of Lebanon must burn" after Israel's military announced the deaths of four soldiers there....
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has set up secretive new cells in Iraq to carry out attacks on Gulf countries that host American forces, bypassing established militia networks...
The Iranian football federation said Thursday it will lodge a complaint with FIFA claiming its team is being subjected to travel restrictions during the World Cup in North America. Iran wanted to...
22:12 Beirut Time Israel 'committed' to Lebanon cease-fire if Hezbollah complies, envoy says Israel’s ambassador to the United States said Friday that Israel is committed to an...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, June 19, 2026 Some key things to watch today:Updates on postponed U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland. Israel's continued...
Now that the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran has been signed, those close to Hezbollah are speaking more openly about what they describe as channels of communication...
Switzerland announced Friday that planned talks on implementing a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding to end the Middle East war had been postponed, hours after U.S. Vice President JD Vance's...
"Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, honor God with your body," reads a passage from 1 Corinthians 6:19. "Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put...
