News in brief
Over 500 children of employees from the General Directorate of the Presidency and the Presidential Guard Brigade gathered Sunday at the Baabda Presidential Palace in Lebanon to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. President Joseph Aoun and First Lady Neemat Aoun personally distributed gifts to the children......
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is set to expand its international network significantly in 2026, reinforcing Casablanca's status as a major global aviation hub. The airline will launch ten new direct routes connecting Morocco to key destinations across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, according to an official......
Nearly 400,000 Syrian refugees and migrants have returned from Lebanon to Syria in 2025 following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The announcement was made on Thursday via the agency’s X account. UNHCR highlighted......
The Cypriot President, Nikos Christodoulides, arrived in Beirut on Wednesday morning for an official visit expected to focus on the long-discussed maritime border demarcation between Lebanon and Cyprus. According to local media, both sides are prepared to finalize and sign the agreement, which Lebanon’s......
The U.S. administration led by President Donald Trump has initiated procedures to determine whether several regional branches of the Muslim Brotherhood should be formally designated as foreign terrorist organizations. According to an information note released by the White House, President Trump signed......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a military strike Sunday targeting the chief of staff of Hezbollah in Beirut, resulting in one death and 21 injuries, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. The attack hit a nine-story building in a densely populated area considered a stronghold......
Tensions resurfaced on Wednesday in southern Lebanon as the Israeli army urged civilians to leave areas surrounding two buildings it identified as Hezbollah military sites. The warning, issued in Arabic by army spokesperson Colonel Avichay Adraee on the platform X, signaled that Israeli forces intend......
Lawyer Marwan Daher has been elected as the new bâtonnier (head) of the Tripoli Bar Association for a two-year term, after winning 874 votes against 515 for his rival, Chawki Sassine. Daher received wide political support from several major parties, including the Future Movement, the Marada Movement,......
Zahlé, November 8, 2025 — Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea strongly criticized Hezbollah on Friday evening during a party dinner in Zahlé, reacting to an open letter the Shiite movement had published a day earlier. The letter, addressed to President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister......
Two Lebanese sisters were arrested at Beirut International Airport (AIB) after attempting to smuggle $207,100 in counterfeit US dollars to Turkey, according to a statement released Friday by the General Directorate of Internal Security Forces. The airport inspection brigade intercepted the two women......
The Saudi Foreign Ministry adviser, Prince Yazid Ben Farhane, is expected to arrive in Beirut tomorrow, leading a high-level Saudi delegation, according to reports from the Lebanese television channel Al-Jadeed and other local media outlets. Lebanon had been anticipating the Saudi envoy’s visit......
Lebanese authorities are reportedly willing to review the $11 million bail set for Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, potentially easing his path to release. Hannibal, arrested in Lebanon in 2015, faces accusations linked to concealing information about the 1978 disappearance......
At least four people were killed and three others injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon on Saturday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. The attack has added new strain to the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, which has been in place since November 2024. The......
