Iraq exports 30M barrels of crude in one month
Iraq exported over 30 million barrels of crude oil in one month through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler showed on Tuesday. Before the Middle East war,...
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Hamas seeks clarity from Trump’s 'Board of Peace' over disarmament, Israeli withdrawal
Hamas on Tuesday called for clarifications from U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," voicing "unease" over comments it made regarding the group's prospective...
AFP, 4 August 2026
Almaza, Lebanon in a bottle since 1933
Close your eyes. Imagine a Lebanese summer. The smell of iodine, salt drying on your skin, sunscreen, the feeling of the sun on your shoulders, peanuts, carrot sticks dipped in lemon. Then that...
Gilles KHOURY, 4 August 2026
US, Iran make progress on Hormuz talks but no deal yet
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that progress had been made in talks involving Iran and Oman on reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, but that no final agreement had been...
Reuters/AFP, 4 August 2026
Hezbollah weapons cache in Ras al-Nabeh: Prosecutor summons 3 suspects
BEIRUT — Attorney General at the Court of Cassation Rami al-Hajj issued a summons warrant Monday for three suspects in connection with the Hezbollah weapons cache seized last week in Ras al-Nabeh,...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 August 2026
August 4 never came to an end
There are some substances that end up embodying the destiny of a country. For the Lebanese, ammonium nitrate is no longer just a chemical compound. It has become the common thread of our collective...
Rita SASSINE, 4 August 2026
Lebanese Army seizes rockets at Syrian border
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army said Monday that it seized 122mm Grad rockets on Sunday in the Ersal outskirts, which had been “smuggled in from Syria,” along with a pickup truck used to transport them....
L'Orient Today staff, 4 August 2026
Jerusalem Post: Beaufort tunnel destruction deals major blow to Hezbollah
BEIRUT — The destruction of a Hezbollah tunnel network near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on July 31 dealt a major strategic blow to the group, according to information presented to Israeli...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 August 2026
Qatar blames Israel for delayed implementation of peace plan
Mediator Qatar blamed Israel on Tuesday for delays in implementing a Gaza peace plan, after U.S. President Donald Trump said militant group Hamas had agreed to disarm, as Israel refuses to leave...
AFP, 4 August 2026
The geopolitical underpinnings of the Ceuta migration crisis
European countries held an emergency video conference on Tuesday, Aug. 4, after more than 60,000 people surged into the Spanish enclave of Cetua last Thursday, expressing increasing concerns about...
Laure-Maïssa FARJALLAH, 4 August 2026
Qatar says efforts continue for diplomatic resolution to US-Iran war
Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said on Tuesday that efforts are ongoing to seek a diplomatic resolution to the U.S.-Iran conflict, and that mediators including Qatar,...
Reuters, 4 August 2026
Yemen's Houthis say they hit Saudi target at Najran airport
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said on Tuesday that they had attacked an airport in Saudi Arabia, as tensions between the two foes brewed after the rebels declared a maritime blockade on Riyadh...
Reuters, 4 August 2026
Riad Salameh's family: 'His life is in danger, he is chained up and subjected to acts of humiliation'
BEIRUT — The family of former Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank) governor Riad Salameh on Tuesday renewed its call for his transfer to Bhannes Hospital on health grounds, claiming that he is...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 August 2026
Salam accuses Hezbollah of 'serving Israel,' slams Qassem’s criticism of state
SOUTH LEBANON/BEIRUT — In an unusual move, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Tuesday lashed out at Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, who earlier in a speech criticized the Lebanese state,...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 August 2026
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos puts cryptography to the test
Artificial intelligence (AI) may have crossed a new frontier: cryptography, one of the foundations of global digital security.Anthropic, the company behind AI assistant Claude, said Tuesday that...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 4 August 2026
Mawassem: Nathalie Khawaja wants to take theater on a journey across Lebanon
Can you introduce yourself, tell us about your background, and explain how Mawassem came about, its long-term ambition, and why you chose theater as the project's guiding thread?I am the...
Rhéa Hajj, 4 August 2026
Calls for justice for Beirut port blast victims and the issuance of the indictment | LIVE
19:26 Beirut Time Paul Najjar calls on judiciary to 'assume its responsibilities' Paul Najjar, who lost his daughter Alexandra in the Beirut port blast, called on Public Prosecutor...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 August 2026
Aug. 4 indictment expected 'within 60 to 90 days,' Justice Minister Adel Nassar says
On the sixth anniversary of the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut port explosion, NGOs Kulluna Irada, Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Seeds for Legal Initiative platform, and the Committee of Victims'...
Claude ASSAF, 4 August 2026
Lebanon and Israel hold new round of direct talks in Rome
Lebanon and Israel are set to begin a new round of U.S.-sponsored direct talks in Rome on Tuesday, as Beirut seeks Israel's phased withdrawal from the country's south. At negotiations in...
AFP, 4 August 2026
Aug. 4: The countdown to the indictment
Six years after the Beirut port explosion, Aug. 4, 2020, the indictment so eagerly awaited by victims' families and all Lebanese still has yet to be issued. Despite years of obstruction and...
Claude ASSAF, 4 August 2026
Status of talks uncertain as ship struck in Hormuz
Conflicting signals from the United States and Iran over the status of talks to end their five-month-old war boosted uncertainty on Tuesday, with the latest attack on shipping in the Strait of...
Reuters, 4 August 2026
General amnesty and enforced amnesia must no longer be our destiny
Dalal Mawad is a Lebanese journalist based in Paris, author of "All She Lost. The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women Who Survive" (Bloomsbury, 2023).Blanket...
Dalal MAWAD, 4 August 2026
Appeal by Aug, 4 victims' families: A file on a desk is not accountability
Beirut, Aug. 4, 2026 On Aug. 4, 2020, at 6:07 in the evening, we lost the people we loved the most. Children and parents, husbands and wives, firefighters who ran toward the port while everyone...
Collective, 4 August 2026
Aug. 4 blast drove many out of the country: ‘That very night, I knew I had to leave’
On Aug. 4, 2020, Hala, 55, a mother of three daughters, was at home in Beirut’s Achrafieh neighborhood when her house was torn apart by the detonation of tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the port...
Suzanne BAAKLINI, Ghadir Hamadi, 4 August 2026
Salameh's detention: Prosecutor condemns former governor's attempt 'to place himself in critical health condition'
The public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Judge Ahmad Rami al-Hajj, condemned the attempts by former Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank) governor Riad Salameh, who was arrested Friday at...
