Picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Marjayoun shows smoke rising from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the outskirts of the village of Kfar Tibnit on Aug. 15, 2025. (Credit: Rabih Daher/AFP)
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:Updates on Israel's planned offensive and mass displacement in GazaU.S. envoys Tom Barrack and Morgan Ortagus return to Lebanon following Cabinet's decision to disarm Hezbollah.Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji’s receives:10:00 a.m: British Ambassador Hamish Cowell, 10:30 a.m.: Uruguayan Ambassador Carlos Guito, 11:00 a.m: Pakistani Ambassador Salman Athar11:00 a.m.: Hezbollah delegation, led by Mahmoud Qomati, meets with allied parties at SSNP HQ in Raouche12:00 p.m.: Sovereign Front for Lebanon holds urgent meeting over Naim Qassem’s speech in SodecoDisplaced Palestinians make their way towards the site of a humanitarian aid airdrop at the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, on Aug. 17,...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:Updates on Israel's planned offensive and mass displacement in GazaU.S. envoys Tom Barrack and Morgan Ortagus return to Lebanon following Cabinet's decision to disarm Hezbollah.Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji’s receives:10:00 a.m: British Ambassador Hamish Cowell, 10:30 a.m.: Uruguayan Ambassador Carlos Guito, 11:00 a.m: Pakistani Ambassador Salman Athar11:00 a.m.: Hezbollah delegation, led by Mahmoud Qomati, meets with allied parties at SSNP HQ in Raouche12:00 p.m.: Sovereign Front for Lebanon holds urgent meeting over Naim Qassem’s speech in SodecoDisplaced Palestinians make their way towards the site of a humanitarian aid airdrop at the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, on Aug....
