BEIRUT — The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said one of its positions near Kfar Shuba, a disputed zone along the Blue Line in the eastern sector of south Lebanon, was hit...
Attacks on international airports in the Saudi capital of Riyadh and the southern city of Abha killed three people and wounded dozens, the kingdom's civil aviation authority said on Wednesday....
BEIRUT — Hezbollah on Wednesday praised Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, marking its third anniversary by condemning what it described as a lack of international support for the Palestinian...
Abir Mroueh, a Shiite activist from the village of Ain Qana in the Nabatieh district, has been the target of an online smear campaign by Hezbollah supporters for the past several days, after she...
Top story General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, an adviser to the top commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, said several channels in the Strait of Hormuz, which "opened as a result of...
Israel is "at risk of civil war or state collapse," according to a classified document from the U.S. intelligence agency CIA dated August and cited by investigative outlet Drop Site...
At Louvre Abu Dhabi, Souraya Noujaim is returning to familiar ground. Appointed to lead the museum on Oct. 7 by Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism, the Lebanese specialist in Islamic art...
Everyone knows Samar Saleh. Or rather, all the regulars at Monnot Theater in Achrafieh, where the sharp-witted brunette has been running the box office for five years, know her. With her warm...
Hezbollah received $200 million from Iran to help Lebanese displaced by this year’s war with Israel, two people with direct knowledge of the transfer said, the first significant aid from the group...
The Houthis claimed a flurry of attacks on Saudi targets on Wednesday including firing a ballistic missile at Riyadh airport, as the group battles for territory in Yemen against government forces...
Russia's health regulator said on Wednesday there were no risks of an epidemic breaking out in Siberia after a plague institute worker there died, as the World Health Organization pressed...
Certain losses outlive their burial. They settle in the body, tighten the throat, and weigh on the stomach. They nestle in old clothes, photographs, cherished documents, and words left unsaid. We...
BEIRUT — Energy Minister Joe Saddi met with President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday, a day after announcing that he would suspend his participation in Cabinet sessions...
BEIRUT — The mayor of Azzeh in the district of Nabatieh, Mustafa Jammoul, has been missing in Dubai since Friday and has been reportedly detained by Emirati authorities, according to his family,...
The mayor of Izmir, Turkey's third city and an opposition stronghold, on Wednesday defected to the ruling AKP, in a huge symbolic victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mayor...
A Palestinian was killed on Wednesday during an Israeli settler attack while Palestinians were harvesting olives near the village of Burqa in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health...
The Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023 has accelerated Israel's decline, the chief of staff for Iran's armed forces said Wednesday, as Israelis marked the third anniversary of the deadliest day...
Iraq's central bank devalued the dinar currency against the dollar on Wednesday, with the country facing a deepening crisis brought on by the Middle East war. Crude oil sales account for...
After private generators, could fixed internet become Lebanon’s next indispensable parallel market? Illegal networks already account for more than 70% of distribution and serve more than a million...
At a time when war is raging in southern Lebanon and the authorities are working to secure an Israeli withdrawal and establish a state monopoly on arms, the debate over the electoral law resumed in...
Three years later, a new version of what happened on Oct. 7 and 8, 2023, within Hezbollah's leadership is circulating. This first quasi-official version presented by the organization raises...
Today’s news Israel is commemorating on Wednesday the victims of the Hamas attack three years ago, on Oct. 7, 2023, the deadliest day in the country’s history, for which security failures have...
Israel commemorated Wednesday the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest day in the country’s history, with this year’s anniversary taking place amid a turbulent political climate ahead of...
SOUTH LEBANON — An Israeli military source told Sky News Arabia that Israeli forces will continue to occupy south Lebanon “for years,” as Israeli military vehicles continue to move around the...
A surprise attack, a barrage of rockets, fire, blood, brave heroes, allegedly villainous fighters and innocent victims: The scene could come straight out of a Hollywood war movie. Except the action...
Iran has "lost complete control" of the Strait of Hormuz, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday, adding that Tehran's economy was "in total and complete...
Debate was impossible, nuance off-limits. In the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacres, on the other side of the Mediterranean, it was impossible to point out, without being accused of...
After the lightning offensive by the Houthis, who in September consolidated their grip on Bab al-Mandeb, the Saudi-backed Yemeni government is now trying to regain the initiative. More than ever,...
Forty years ago, Mahmoud Darwish wrote: "On this land stands the mistress of the land, mother of preludes and epilogues. It was called Palestine. It is still called Palestine." That was a...
At least 1,240 airline crew members from states that do not maintain diplomatic relations with Israel, including Lebanon, Syria, and Oman, landed in the country in 2026, according to information...
Houthis attacked the international airport in the southern Yemeni town of Aden with ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones early on Wednesday, Yemen's Transport Ministry said, as...
Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against Palestinian olive farmers in the West...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy U.S. demands and end the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026 Some key things to watch today:Oct. 7 attacks commemoration. Three years on from Oct. 7, Gaza in ruins and...
Hamas has been weakened, but it retains a foothold in Lebanon. Three years after Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas' Lebanese branch has not disappeared entirely, at least not politically. While the Islamist...
