The German senate has announced that it would receive 500 Syrian and Iraqi refugees residing in Lebanon this year. In an official decree, Berlin explained that the decision aims...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati today said that he hoped to form a government in the "near future", Reuters reports. Mikati, a businessman, is the third person to be nominated since Hassan Diab's...

Lebanese former prime minister and leader of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri, yesterday proposed that officials have their diplomatic immunity "temporarily suspend" in order to investigate the Beirut port...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati said Tuesday that parliamentarians have agreed on the necessity to accelerate the forming of a new government, reports Anadolu Agency. "I listened, during the...

Iranian protesters yesterday called on authorities to focus on improving the country's infrastructure including water and electricity services instead of supporting foreign militia groups. In recent weeks, protests have erupted across...

Lebanon's Saad Hariri has finally apologised for only forming the government nine months after President Michel Aoun tasked him with this mission. However, Aoun rejected the ministers proposed by...

Lebanon's new Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati today said he would work to form a government and implement a French plan to save the country from its crippling financial crisis, Reuters reported....

Lebanon's Sunni leaders, including former PM Saad Hariri, yesterday endorsed wealthy businessman and former Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, to form the next government, local media reported. Parliamentary consultations are...

Iraq has signed an agreement allowing the cash-strapped Lebanese government pay for 1 million tonnes of heavy fuel oil a year in goods and services, helping Lebanon ease its...

The Ministry of Energy and Water in Lebanon is to stop delivering diesel amid a fuel crisis in the country. Diesel has run out in government facilities, with the...

Syria's air defences intercepted an Israeli attack on the Al -usair area in Homs early this morning, state media reported, according to Reuters. A Syrian military source said in a...

Over 600 people, including clergymen, MPs, political figures, and army officers, have attended the swearing-in ceremony of Bashar Al-Assad at the presidential palace in Damascus. He is now serving...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday the main impediment to investment in the country was money stuck in ailing Lebanese banks, reports Reuters. In a speech after being...

The Internal Security Forces Directorate in Lebanon announced on Friday the detention of a Lebanese citizen in West Beqaa, east of Beirut, over spying for Israeli intelligence, Quds Press...

An Israeli army drone today crashed inside Lebanon, the Israeli military said, Anadolu Agency reports. In a Twitter post, Avichay Adraee, the army spokesman said: "A while ago, during...

Dozens of Lebanese protesters yesterday blocked roads across the country after Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri stepped down today after failing to form the government for months. The National News Agency said protesters blocked...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri stepped down today after failing to form the government for months, Anadolu Agency reports. In a press conference after meeting President Michel Aoun at...

A surge of coronavirus cases in several Middle Eastern countries could have dire consequences, aggravated by the spread of the Delta variant and low vaccine availability, the World Health...

Hezbollah airs new footage of its raid against Israeli soldiers that sparked the 2006 war

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi today expressed full support for Lebanese Prime Minister-Designate Saad Hariri in his efforts to resolve a crippling economic and political crisis as he visited...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun confirmed Tuesday that the country's parliamentary elections will be held as scheduled in 2022, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a statement issued by the Lebanese Presidency, Aoun...

Israeli Arab businessman Yaqoub Abu Al-Qia'an was indicted on Monday for leaking intelligence about Israel to Iran through a Lebanese-Iraqi agent, Israeli media reported. This was only one charge...

Syrian authorities have announced a sharp increase in the prices of bread and fuel, in efforts to counter the economic crisis that has gripped the country over the past...

As Israel celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, more shortcomings of the Israeli military are surfacing and seem to be centred on the lack of readiness...

A Lebanese minister has denied a request by the judge probing the Beirut port explosion to question a top security official, a document seen by Reuters today showed, as attempts to...

Hit by the collapse of Lebanon's economy, the army has started selling rides on its helicopters to finance their maintenance, a measure of the depth of the financial troubles...

The American and French ambassadors to Lebanon conducted a rare visit to Saudi Arabia yesterday, in efforts to come up with a solution to the country's political and economic...

Lebanon's most senior Christian cleric yesterday said he hoped for an improvement in ties with Saudi Arabia, which has withheld support for the crisis-torn Lebanese economy because of the...

A small training aircraft with three people onboard crashed today in Lebanon's mountainous Keserwan district, north of the capital Beirut, aviation sources said, Reuters reports. Initial reports suggested the pilot...

Petrol as wedding gift?

Ahmed Jibril, leader of Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine –General Command – passed away in the Syrian capital Damascus yesterday at the age of 83. Jibril and...

Qatar will provide the Lebanese armed forces with 70 tonnes of food a month, the Qatari state news agency QNA reported, as Lebanon seeks assistance amid its worst economic and political...