Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny met on Tuesday with delegations from the World Bank (WB) and the European Union regarding the advancement of the reconstruction project after the...
Scenes from southern Gaza of thousands of people rushing a U.S.-backed group's aid distribution site were "heartbreaking," U.N. chief Antonio Guterres' spokesperson said Tuesday,...
François Bayrou refused the request from the group of Green Party deputies to organize a debate in Parliament on the situation in the Gaza Strip, devastated by war and experiencing a severe...
Thousands of people rushed into a new aid distribution center run by a U.S.-backed group in southern Gaza on Tuesday, an AFP journalist reported. The scenes in the city of Rafah came days after...
In 10 days, between May 15 and May 25, Israeli strikes targeting displaced persons camps in the Gaza Strip have forced more than 180,000 people to flee again, according to a report by the Camp...
The U.S. government intends to cancel all remaining financial contracts with Harvard, a senior official said Tuesday, in President Donald Trump's latest attempt to force the prestigious...
The United Nations said on Tuesday it had no information on whether the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S.-backed aid group, had actually delivered any supplies inside the war-ravaged...
The Kataeb party said that Hezbollah is "not in a position to impose its conditions on the state," emphasizing that the "issue of illegal weapons must be resolved swiftly to restore Lebanon's...
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai announced on Tuesday the resumption of his weekly spiritual appointments, which had been interrupted for nearly a month due to a health issue from which he has now...
Saudi Ambassador to Beirut Walid Bukhari was received Tuesday by Lebanese Finance Minister Yassine Jaber, with whom he discussed "reforms" in Lebanon and "ways to strengthen...
Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar on Tuesday praised, during a meeting of the Central Security Council, the efforts of the security forces and the army, which, according to him, ensured the smooth...
A shadowy U.S.-backed group pledging to distribute aid in Gaza has faced accusations of helping Israel fulfill its military objectives while excluding Palestinians, bypassing the U.N. system and...
Crowbars, bolt cutters, or hammers, many Palestinian shopkeepers in Jerusalem's Old City struggled on Tuesday to reopen their stores, which were vandalized the day before by participants of an...
Over 800 lawyers, academics, and former senior judges, including ex-Supreme Court judges, urged in a letter the UK Prime Minister to impose sanctions on Israel. They also called for reconsidering...
During a visit to the UAE for the 2025 Arab Media Summit, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam reaffirmed Lebanon's commitment to ensuring the safe return of Gulf visitors and said his government aims to...
Newly elected at the Beirut Municipal Council, representative Ibrahim Zeidan was voted at the head of the municipality in the presence of Beirut Governor Judge Marwan Abboud and the newly elected...
For the second consecutive day, a fire broke out in the Sour Nature Reserve, engulfing large areas of vegetation less than 24 hours after a similar fire on Monday at the same location....
Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have in recent weeks held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and preventing conflict in the border region between the two longtime foes, five...
“Our unit was the most powerful in the Middle East,” says Elias*, a former member of the Lebanese Forces' elite troops. But in April 1991, he turned in his khaki uniform and handgun at the...
At least 172 deaths related to cholera have been recorded in one week in Sudan, the Health Ministry announced Tuesday in a statement, following several warnings about the spread of the epidemic in...
The United Nations stated Tuesday that they do not know if the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supported by the U.S., has truly begun its food distributions in the devastated Palestinian...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered his most severe rebuke of Israel to date on Tuesday, criticising massive air strikes on Gaza as no longer justified by the need to fight Hamas and...
In just 10 days through to May 25, Israeli attacks on displacement camps in Gaza have forced more than 180,000 people to relocate, according to the Global Camp Coordination and Camp Management...
The Lebanese are certainly gaining recognition in Doha’s art scene. After artist Najla al-Zein's stone bench-sculpture series Us, Her, Him was permanently installed in the heart of the museum...
Around 300 French-speaking writers, including two Nobel laureates in literature, Annie Ernaux and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, have condemned the "genocide" of the population in Gaza in...
In their first videos in 2017, they appeared blurry, dreamy and donned wigs, tossing phrases between friends. Today, the same red and black wigs adorned Doumouh and Farah, the characters of their...
European Union countries have definitively adopted on Tuesday a framework agreement to facilitate their joint procurement of arms, as part of a European program endowed with approximately 150...
State prosecutor of Israel has stated that the appointment of the new head of the Shin Bet, the internal security agency, by Benjamin Netanyahu was "illegitimate and illegal," in a letter...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in an interview Tuesday that no concrete steps have been taken to stop Israeli attacks on Lebanon despite the cease-fire, adding that only the U.S. can pressure...
Even though challenges, constituencies and electoral law are generally not the same, there is a prevailing tendency right now of viewing the municipal elections as a sort of preview of the...
For his first trip abroad since the United States announced it would lift sanctions on Syria, interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa made a surprise visit to Istanbul on Saturday. While the Turkish...
The Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon, Walid Bukhari, visited the Minister of Finance, Yassine Jaber, today at the Ministry's headquarters in downtown Beirut, Saudi Arabia's embassy to Lebanon...
On Tuesday, the Lebanese Army began removing an earth embankment built by Israeli forces inside Lebanese territory during an overnight incursion near Mais al-Jabal, our correspondent in South...
The case of Pascal Sleiman, a senior Lebanese Forces (LF) member who was assassinated on April 9, 2024, has resurfaced after Syria handed over the main suspect, gang leader Ahmad Noun, to the...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 26-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today...
The federal authorities of Iraq have filed a complaint against autonomous Kurdistan for signing, without its consent, hydrocarbon contracts with two U.S. companies, two officials told AFP on...
Germany and Finland want to "put pressure" on the Israeli government to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Finnish Prime Minister Petteri...
The process of forming a new government in Lebanon is still dragging on. One consequence of the long delay is that a budget for 2019 has not been approved and, as a result, government ministries...
Several Lebanese army soldiers were injured during a raid conducted by military units and the intelligence directorate Monday night in the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood of Tripoli. Security sources...
Fuel prices saw an increase Tuesday in Lebanon, with the exception of the domestic gas cylinder, which decreased by 11,000 Lebanese pounds compared to the last schedule on Friday, according to the...
After expanding its offensive in Gaza, the Israeli military reportedly stated during a closed-door briefing on Sunday, May 25, that it plans to occupy 75 percent of the Palestinian enclave within...
On the occasion of the publication of our series on Lebanese detainees in Israel since the November 2024 cease-fire, this article has been updated. Contacted, the family said they had “learned...
A young Palestinian man, 20-year-old Mohammad Jalayta, has died from his injuries, announced the Palestinian Red Cross. He had been shot the previous day by Israeli army fire during an incursion in...
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, promised on Monday to bring back all the hostages, "the living and the dead," held by Hamas in Gaza, at a time when his army is intensely...
21:58 Beirut Time We are closing our live blog for tonight. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates on the region. 21:57 Beirut Time Two Israeli...
Enacted on Nov. 27, 2024, after over a year of Israeli airstrikes, launched on Oct. 8, 2023, and a ground incursion into Lebanon, the Lebanese cease-fire agreement marks six turbulent months on...
