BEIRUT — Nearly 200 people staged a protest in Abdeh, Akkar, on Monday afternoon against the repatriation of the body of a former militiaman with the South Lebanon Army (SLA) who died in Israel,...
BEIRUT —A Saudi citizen was kidnapped Sunday in Beirut, caretaker Minister of Interior Bassam Mawlawi tweeted Monday. According to local television station Al Jadeed , the man was kidnapped from...
BEIRUT — One day after longstanding Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan won yet another five-year term in a historic election runoff, loved ones of Lebanese citizens who died in February’s...
Syria's Kurds on Monday said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's election victory left them fearful, following years of repeated attacks and threats against their semi-autonomous region....
BEIRUT — In a press release issued Monday, caretaker Environment Minister Nasser Yassin called on all interested Lebanese citizens to review the recently-published environmental impact study of...
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed’s absence from the Arab League summit held in Jeddah, which was overshadowed by the return of Bashar al-Assad and the surprise presence of...
On May 31, 2022, the newly elected Parliament, formed just 16 days prior, convened for the first time. Journalists, photographers, activists and observers gathered at the Place de l'Étoile to...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday confronted the tough task of uniting his deeply divided country after winning a historic run-off election to extend his two-decade rule to 2028....
DUBAI — Fourteen members of a "terrorist team" linked to Israel have been arrested in northwestern Iran, an official from Iran's Judiciary said on Monday according to the semi-official Tasnim...
BEIRUT — The cabinet on Monday called on caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury to propose new lawyers to represent Lebanon's interests in the preventive seizure of Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor...
DUBAI — An Iranian journalist went of trial behind closed doors on Monday on charges linked to her coverage of the funeral of a Kurdish-Iranian woman whose death in custody last year triggered...
Saudi Arabia has put to death two Bahrainis accused of plotting terrorist operations, state media said on Monday, raising the number of similar executions to nine this month....
BEIRUT — Public administration employees across Lebanon began a two-week strike Monday demanding improved wages and transportation allowances, League of Public Administration Employees member...
This year, public school students are well behind schedule for the Lebanese baccalaureate exams. At the end of a chaotic school year, marked by a teachers’ strike of unprecedented length, public...
DUBAI — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a meeting with Oman's Sultan that Tehran welcomes better diplomatic relations with Egypt, Iranian state media reported on Monday....
DUBAI — Heavy and sustained clashes could be heard on Monday in parts of Sudan's capital, residents said, hours before the expiry of a shaky ceasefire deal that had brought some respite from a...
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man Monday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry announced, as the Israeli military said forces were in a firefight during a raid....
LONDON — Turkey's lira slipped towards a fresh record low against the dollar as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured victory in the country's presidential election on Sunday, extending his...
Israeli air strikes hit the Damascus region overnight Sunday, the Syrian defense ministry said, with a war monitor reporting five wounded in attacks on air defence sites that host Hezbollah...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The United Nations reverted to exclusively using lira to issue aid payments for Syrian refugees in Lebanon after caretaker...
