BEIRUT — Lebanese Environment Minister Tamara Elzein on Monday denounced the "ongoing environmental destruction" in south Lebanon caused by repeated Israeli army bombardments, including...
BEIRUT — The Samir Kassir Foundation held the 21st edition of the Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom ceremony Monday at Sursock Palace in Beirut, honoring journalists each year for the best...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam began a diplomatic push Monday in New York focused on Lebanon's key issues, from international support for the army and the state’s monopoly on weapons to...
Top story The Yemeni president has asked Donald Trump for help against the pro-Iranian Houthis, amid increasingly tense regional dynamics. On Sunday, the Houthis reported 28 Saudi airstrikes in...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Court of Cassation recently ruled that the military tribunal has jurisdiction to examine a complaint filed in March 2025 against former State Security Director-General Tony...
The price of Brent North Sea crude, the main international benchmark, sunk back under $100 per barrel Monday on hopes that diplomatic progess can be made on ending the U.S.-Iran war. Brent tumbled...
Leading U.S. broadcasters suspended TV "pool" coverage of President Donald Trump on Monday in solidarity with CNN which has been banned from the White House. "The public has a vital...
French President Emmanuel Macron will face his U.S. opposite number Donald Trump with "total candor" when they meet ahead of the UN's signature diplomatic week in New York, a French...
SOUTH LEBANON — The first prefabricated houses provided by the Council for the South were delivered early Monday afternoon to Zawtar Gharbieh, one of the pilot areas where the Lebanese Army is set...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday in New York, where both leaders will take part in the United Nations General Assembly, a source with...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun received a message from U.S. President Donald Trump "expressing his pleasure at welcoming President Aoun to the White House on July 21 and his admiration for...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Monday that Iranian airlines will have trouble functioning globally in two days under the weight of American sanctions — as the Trump administration...
Despite a brief respite in June and July, when the consumer price index posted two slight monthly declines, it rose again in August, driven by rising energy, housing and transportation costs amid...
Three leading U.S. news outlets announced Monday they will go to court after being banned from the White House, as President Donald Trump claimed that media critical of his administration is a...
Finance Minister Yassin Jaber has sent the presidency of the Parliament a draft decree abolishing this fee on raw materials intended for industry and imported industrial equipment. A new chapter...
Israeli forces on Monday raided the hometown of a Palestinian man suspected of shooting dead an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank the day before, local authorities said. Sunday's...
Gaza health officials said Israeli fire killed three people, including a woman and a child, and injured several others across the Palestinian territory on Monday. Officials at Nasser hospital in...
The United States has refused to issue visas for members of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's delegation, including his communications team, for this week's trip to the U.N. General...
A little over two years after the Israeli pager operation against Hezbollah, Israeli outlet Walla reported new details about the preparations for the attack, claiming that 500 devices had been...
The warning signs have been mounting. On Saturday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump cut short his trip to Camp David and returned to Washington, as the U.S. issued an alert to U.S. citizens in...
U.S. President Donald Trump has changed his strategy on Yemen several times, The New York Times reported on Sunday, torn between Saudi pressure to strike the Iran-backed Houthis and the risk of...
Today's news Washington and Tehran have again stepped up their exchange of threats in recent days, amid ongoing tensions around the Strait of Hormuz and escalating conflict in Yemen. The...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) on Monday warned it would attack new targets and deploy new weapons if the U.S. launches further attacks on the country. Almost seven months into their war,...
Two crew members were injured after an "unknown projectile" hit their tanker travelling through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, a British maritime agency said. "Military authorities...
So, what would you do? Put yourself in the shoes of a Texas voter a little over a month before the midterm elections. Now imagine you’re faced with this choice: one candidate promises to build as...
The U.S. President Donald Trump administration has prepared sanctions targeting the entire International Criminal Court (ICC), which it could announce soon, according to two sources familiar with...
Armed individuals fired bursts from automatic weapons Sunday night at a cafe in the Cola neighborhood in southern Beirut, wounding several people. Videos shared on social media show about a dozen...
20:04 Beirut Time Continued Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon Israeli security operations continued in the Nabatieh district. Strikes hit Kfar Tibnit and the outskirts of Zawtar...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 Some key things to watch today:11 a.m. The Executive Bureau of the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers is...
At least four people were injured following a series of explosions at an Aleppo army site in northern Syria early Monday, state media reported. The cause of the explosions, which Syrian state...
