WASHINGTON — Israel updated White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on its refined plans to minimize civilian harm in Rafah when he visited the region last weekend, he said on...
BRUSSELS — Ministers from Arab states will meet with European Union counterparts in Brussels on Monday to try to forge a common path on ending the war in Gaza and build lasting peace, a senior...
BRUSSELS — EU countries have agreed to add 10 new subjects to the Iran sanctions list, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday on the condition of anonymity....
The excitement was palpable on the pathway connecting the stage to the various public entrances. Dozens of spectators came six to 10 hours in advance to ensure they found the best seats. Hundreds...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Association for Taxpayers’ Rights (ALDIC) held a conference on Tuesday to discuss the findings of its latest report on Lebanon’s Public Financial Mismanagement (PFM), done...
In Beirut's impoverished Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila — a maze of alleyways where posters honor fallen martyrs — residents expressed joy Wednesday after three European countries said they...
Israeli forces raided the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday, an AFP correspondent reported, a day after soldiers killed eight Palestinians. Troops fought militants in...
BEIRUT – Lebanese caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad has emphasized the need for the public sector to pay its dues to Électricité du Liban (EDL), the state-run National News Agency reported on...
BEIRUT — The suite of rooms that hosts the Arab Image Foundation seems familiar in a way. The workspaces where the documentation, conservation and digitisation of photos take place, the cool and...
The Israeli military has approved permission for Israelis to return to three former occupied West Bank settlements they had been banned from entering since an evacuation ordered in 2005,...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers for late president Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday as huge crowds thronged the capital Tehran for his funeral procession....
Egyptian intelligence services discreetly altered the terms of a cease-fire proposal that Israel had already approved at the beginning of May before presenting it to Hamas, CNN reported late...
BEIRUT — After hitting the double-digits in March for the first time since June 2020, the annual growth of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) continued to slow down in April for a second consecutive...
TEL AVIV — Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz ordered the "immediate recall" of the Israeli ambassadors to Ireland and Norway on Wednesday, citing the countries' decision to recognize a...
BEIRUT — Druze leader Walid Joumblatt, former head of the Progressive Socialist Party, said that the war in Gaza "is only just beginning," as are its repercussions, particularly in southern...
Will Israel’s war cabinet implode? For more than seven months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never been challenged to this extent by the two members of his war cabinet, set up in October to...
On Thursday Nov. 21 the ICC officially issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas official Mohammed Deif. In light...
Expatriate remittances to Lebanon are on the rise for a second year. The remittances totaled $6.7 billion in 2023, up 4.1 percent on the $6.44 billion received in 2022, according to Banque du Liban...
BEIRUT — Between Monday and Tuesday alone, the Lebanese Army seized two trucks carrying over 700 illegal firearms, brought into Lebanon through the port of Tripoli, highlighting the extent to which...
BEIRUT — A new security plan let by the Internal Security Forces (ISF) and implemented on May 15 in Beirut and its suburbs, has sparked recent controversy in the country. The ISF's General...
Could the sequence that began on Oct. 7 end with a deal that would once again reshape the region? That’s what the Biden administration continues to believe, holding on against all odds to the idea...
GENEVA — Attacks on medics and health facilities in war zones jumped in 2023 to the highest level since records began 11 years ago, a group of non-governmental organizations said on Wednesday,...
BEIRUT — A Syrian woman was fatally shot in the head during a brawl between two men on Tuesday night in the Wadi al-Nahleh area of Tripoli, northern Lebanon, according to our regional...
21:17 Beirut Time Thank you for following our live coverage of the war between Hamas and Israel. We will continue our coverage of the conflict tomorrow morning. 21:01 Beirut...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today: • An International Monetary Fund...
