President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States is not talking with Iran as Washington focuses on increasing economic pressure on Tehran, while vowing to penalize countries that do...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Aug. 28 2026 Some key things to watch today:10 a.m.: Lebtech 2026 opens under President Joseph Aoun’s patronage, with ministers...
Visa and Mastercard carried out their first international card transactions in Syria on Wednesday, a major step in reconnecting the country with global payment networks days after Washington...
The prime minister of U.S. ally Qatar visited Tehran on Thursday in a bid to revive diplomacy as the U.S. and Iran traded recriminations over Washington's latest sanctions drive, described by...
BEIRUT — The visit of the Emirati delegation to Lebanon concluded Thursday with the signing of an intergovernmental memorandum of understanding, crowning two days of meetings focused on Abu Dhabi’s...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he expects a new contribution of hundreds of millions of dollars the United States owes to the U.N. budget very soon. Reuters...
BEIRUT — A day after criticizing Hezbollah’s lack of progress on disarmament, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa raised the issue again Thursday during a meeting with Druze Sheikh Akl Sami Abi...
The questioning of former Bank Audi CEO Samir Hanna, scheduled for Thursday by Beirut investigative judge Sheherazade Nasser, did not take place. Hanna’s attorney requested additional time to file...
“Operation Economic Outcast” is the name Washington has given to its latest package of sanctions on Iran, announced Monday, Aug. 24, in a bid to intensify pressure on the Iranian government. The...
BEIRUT — A Jerusalem court acquitted a man charged three months ago with assaulting a nun in Jerusalem's Old City on the grounds of “temporary insanity,” Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on...
BEIRUT — The resumption of war between Hezbollah and Israel on March 2 is expected to cost Lebanon $3.571 billion in tourism and domestic consumption revenues in 2026, according to the World Bank’s...
While television screens and social media were occupied on Monday night with debating the truth of reports about Hezbollah military tunnels beneath the ancient temples of Baalbeck, the ensemble Les...
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held talks with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Thursday, Iranian state television said, with the strategic Strait of...
NORTH LEBANON — Unidentified individuals broke into the historic Saint John Chrysostom Monastery in Koubba, in the Batroun district, overnight Thursday to Friday, vandalizing outdoor installations,...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Thursday, in a speech marking the 81st anniversary of General Security (GS), that Lebanon is currently facing an "internal conflict" between...
What remains when the hubs of our creativity are gone? When our studios have become inaccessible and people have been forced to leave their land? Art knows how to bloom elsewhere, wherever hands...
BEIRUT — Following the USS George Washington, the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Gerald Ford, the USS Theodore Roosevelt will soon be deployed again to the Gulf, within the U.S. Central Command...
For 47 years, Syria remained on one of Washington’s most restrictive blacklists. On Monday, Aug. 24, that chapter officially came to an end when the United States removed Syria from its list of...
In this series, "Stories of Love," men and women with direct or indirect ties to Lebanon entrust our journalist Julia Mokdad with the great love stories that have shaped their lives....
Yayoi Kusama, the acclaimed Japanese avant-garde artist who transformed her hallucinations into works that ranged from vibrant dot-covered paintings and pumpkin sculptures to infinity mirror room...
SOUTH LEBANON — Israel bombed the village of Arab Salim, in the northern part of the Nabatieh district and outside the area occupied by Israel in southern Lebanon, early Thursday afternoon, killing...
Appointed on July 30, 2026, by decree of President Emmanuel Macron, Patrick Durel, the new French ambassador to Lebanon is a seasoned French diplomat with vast experience in the Middle East....
Iran has been unable to import enough petrol to make up for insufficient domestic production because of a U.S. naval blockade, a senior Iranian official said. "Petrol production is...
The high representative for Gaza in U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace warned Wednesday of a "point of no return" if the Israel-Hamas ceasefire breaks down. Israeli Prime...
Meta agreed to pay a coalition of U.S. states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing on Wednesday that...
Does Marwan Hamadeh still need an introduction?A former journalist, columnist, and press veteran, the former minister and current MP for the Chouf district is one of Lebanon’s best-known political...
21:24 Beirut Time Israeli airstrikes hit Wadi Slouqi and Nabatieh Fawqa The Israeli air force carried out an airstrike on Wadi Slouqi (Bint Jbeil) and another on Nabatieh Fawqa, our...
British actor Tim Curry, most famous for the 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," passed away at the age of 80, his manager said on Wednesday. A cause of death was not...
French police said Thursday that a second person had died after a man drove a car into a group of people outside a bar in the northern town of Caen. The 26-year-old Russian-origin driver was...
Nearly 1,500 people including almost 800 foreigners are missing across Nepal and China's Tibet, authorities said on Thursday, after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a Himalayan river,...
The meeting on Thursday at the Vatican between President Joseph Aoun and Pope Leo XIV was far from simply protocol. Between the only Christian president in the Middle East and the leader of the...
“Tolerant Smyrna,” they called it. On the shores of the Aegean, halfway between Athens and Istanbul, the port city had become something of a legend. It was the dawn of the 20th century. Arabs,...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026 Some key things to watch today:6 a.m.: Lebanon’s General Security oversaw the 17th phase of the government’s...
