BEIRUT —A former Lebanese militiaman of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) who recently passed away in Israel, was buried on Tuesday in the village of Hakour in Akkar (North Lebanon), despite backlash...
BEIRUT — The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Syrian money service businesses for allegedly helping the Syrian government, Hezbollah and the...
BEIRUT — The head of the Maronite Church, Bechara Rai, was received Tuesday afternoon at the Elysée Palace in Paris by French President Emmanuel Macron, who had sent him an "official invitation"...
Riad Salameh was long considered a financial “wizard,” ensconced at the top of Banque du Liban (BDL), Lebanon’s central bank, for more than 30 years. Meanwhile, Hezbollah started as a small...
BEIRUT —Riyadi Beirut on Monday night won the 2023 Lebanon Basketball League Tournament. In the final series of the tournament, they played against Dynamo club, who placed second. On Monday night,...
BEIRUT — On Tuesday, Lebanese customs announced catching a man who attempted to smuggle some 1.5 kg of cannabis concealed in shoes to an undisclosed Arab country, the state-run National News Agency...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Minister of Justice Henry Khoury on Tuesday defended his choice of assigning two French lawyers to represent the Lebanese state in the Riad Salameh case in France. "I stand by...
In Europe, the United States, Russia, Syria and the Gulf... Turkey was not the only country facing the unknown in the Turkish presidential election runoff on Sunday. Of course, there was little...
BEIRUT — Three prisoners were stabbed on Tuesday in a knife fight in the al-Qaba prison in Tripoli, North Lebanon, a security source told L'Orient-Le Jour 's correspondent in the area....
BEIRUT — The Constitutional Council announced Tuesday it had rejected appeals to a law extending the mandates of the municipal councils, the state-run National News Agency reported. The extension...
JERUSALEM — Gunmen killed a Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli authorities said, and a Palestinian armed group linked to President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction claimed...
BEIRUT — The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) has agreed with other parties on a candidate to oppose Hezbollah's favored presidential contender Sleiman Frangieh, FPM head Gebran Bassil told Kuwaiti...
BEIRUT — Dozens of second-hand vehicle car dealers, taxi drivers and others blocked the Charles Helou highway in front of Beirut’s port Tuesday protesting the government’s decision to raise the...
The move is too rare to go unnoticed. Last week, Druze leader Walid Joumblatt, 73, announced his resignation as leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) — a position he held since the...
JERUSALEM — A top Israeli official played down prospects for a US-brokered diplomatic breakthrough with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government as "in...
DUBAI — Clashes subsided in Sudan's capital on Tuesday though fighting could be heard in some areas, residents said, after military factions battling for more than six weeks agreed to extend a...
Warring generals in Sudan have agreed to extend by five days a humanitarian ceasefire they repeatedly violated and which failed to deliver promised aid corridors. Residents...
DUBAI — The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has resolved nuclear issues with Iran relating to one of three sites being investigated over the presence of uranium particles, Iranian...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army rescued a Saudi citizen who had been kidnapped Sunday in Lebanon, freeing him Tuesday morning from a town close to the Syrian-Lebanese border and arresting his alleged...
Israelis started reviving a flashpoint illegal outpost settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday, AFP journalists said, constructing a building at the site which has drawn international...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices increased in Lebanon on Tuesday morning, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Cabinet is scheduled to convene tomorrow for an “urgent meeting” to discuss the appointment of lawyers to represent Lebanon’s...
