BEIRUT — A cache of firearms was discovered inside a truck that caught fire on the Tripoli-Beirut highway, between Batroun and Kfar Abida, reported our North Lebanon correspondent, Michel...
Iran announced Monday it will hold presidential elections on June 28, state media reported, following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage in a helicopter crash. “The election...
BEIRUT — Children ran around clutching photos of their fathers, the posters nearly as large as they were. Two pregnant women, each holding the hands of their young, approached the press, their...
- A Court of Audit report concerning tax stamps in Lebanon revealed that licensed distributors of stamps had illicitly made $20 million in profit over two years , exploiting an...
BEIRUT - With the region having been, for months, on the brink of a wider conflagration and the war continuing to rage in Gaza and southern Lebanon, what impact could the unexpected deaths of...
After a night of speculation on Sunday May 19, Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead by state media on the morning of April 20. Here’s a wrap-up of events surrounding Iranian president...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri broke his silence on Sunday. In the Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, he responded to the statement the ambassadors of the five-nation group involved in the Lebanese...
The health ministry in Gaza said Monday that at least 35,562 people have been killed in the territory during more than seven months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants....
The internet erupted with a wave of reactions and memes following the news of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's fatal helicopter crash. The accident caused a shock in Iran and...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders on suspicion of war crimes and...
On Oct. 12, 2020, the Qasem Soleimani Foundation launched in a ceremony in Tehran a book on Hossein Amirabdollahian’s memoirs of the Syrian war. The book entitled "Sobh-e Sham" narrates his...
Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati declared three days of national mourning on Monday, following the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raissi and Foreign Minister Hossein...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced on Monday five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash. "I announce five days of...
US President Joe Biden said Sunday he heard the voice of Gaza war protesters as some students turned their backs on his graduation ceremony speech at the former university of civil rights icon...
An Israeli strike killed 31 people in central Gaza Sunday, the Palestinian territory's civil defense agency said, as US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited for talks on the...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has a lung infection and is undergoing a treatment programme involving antibiotics, the Royal Court said Sunday in the latest update on the ageing monarch's health....
23:37 Beirut Time That's it for today's live coverage of the war on Gaza and its repercussions across the region, especially in southern Lebanon, where cross-border fighting was...
A rare consensus. For several weeks now, all the political parties in Lebanon have been in agreement on the need to find a solution to the thorny issue of Syrian migrants and refugees, even if...
The issue of Syrian migrants and refugees continues to cause a stir. Over the weekend, an outcry arose when Ivo Freijsen, head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
Iranian media announced on Monday morning the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in yesterday's helicopter accident in northwest Iran. This announcement...
