Queues built as Lebanese banks reopened on Tuesday after a one-week closure, with police deployed at branches and banks imposing tight restrictions on hard currency withdrawals and transfers abroad.
Banks have mostly been closed since protests (...)
Lebanese security forces scuffled with protesters as they sought to prevent lawmakers from attending a session of parliament on Tuesday, continuing a month-long wave of demonstrations against politicians blamed for taking Lebanon towards economic (...)
Iran's supreme leader on Sunday backed the government's decision to raise gasoline prices and called angry protesters who have been setting fire to public property over the hike ``thugs,'' signaling a potential crackdown on the (...)
Lebanon slipped deeper into political crisis on Sunday after the withdrawal of a top candidate for prime minister narrowed the chances of creating a government needed to enact urgent reforms.
Mohammad Safadi, a former finance minister, withdrew his (...)
Bank workers in Lebanon will remain on strike on Monday, the president of the Federation of Syndicates of Bank Employees told broadcaster MTV on Sunday, extending industrial action that has kept banks shut nationwide.
The union began the strike on (...)
تواصلت المظاهرات في عدة مدن إيرانية احتجاجا على رفع أسعار الوقود، وهاجم المحتجون الغاضبون محطات وقود وقطعوا الطرق في عدد من المناطق.
وبعد نفي سابق لوجود احتجاجات واشتباكات بين القوى الأمنية والمتظاهرين، قالت وكالة الأنباء الرسمية "إرنا" إن مظاهرات (...)
Mohammad Safadi, a former finance minister, has agreed to be Lebanon's prime minister if he wins the support of leading parties, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on Friday.
The consensus on the wealthy 75-year-old, who has had extensive business (...)
Overnight protests roiling several Iranian cities continued into Saturday, sparked by the government cutting back on gasoline subsidies and increasing costs by 50%, with demonstrations ranging from people abandoning their cars in traffic to trying (...)
The situation in Lebanon is becoming more complicated, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was cited as saying by newspaper al-Joumhouria on Saturday, comments that suggested a deal needed to form a new government had yet to be (...)
تأكد غياب الجمهور عن المباراة المرتقبة التى تجمع بين منتخبى لبنان وكوريا الجنوبية، اليوم الخميس، بالعاصمة اللبنانية "بيروت"، ضمن منافسات الجولة الخامسة بالمجموعة الثامنة فى التصفيات المشتركة المؤهلة لبطولة كأس العالم 2022 بجانب كأس آسيا 2023.
وذكر (...)
It has been a roller-coaster month so far for Son Heung-min but the Tottenham Hotspur forward reports for World Cup qualification duty against Lebanon in good form as South Korea seeks a return to winning ways.
South Korea drew 0-0 in an almost (...)
President Michel Aoun said on Tuesday Lebanon faced a catastrophe if protesters did not go home, igniting a new wave of demonstrations during which a protester was shot and killed after an altercation with Lebanese soldiers near Beirut.
The shooting (...)
Main roads across Lebanon were closed on Wednesday in fresh protests after President Michel Aoun angered demonstrators by urging them to end their revolt against corruption among the country's ruling elite.
His remarks in a television interview late (...)
The war in Yemen is poised to end by year's end, or so many Gulf and Western analysts are saying.
Some would even go further and anticipate that the end of the war in Yemen could pave the way to negotiations with Iran to conclude a comprehensive (...)
As Lebanese protesters carried their unprecedented protest movement against the ruling establishment into its fourth week, former prime minister Saad Al-Hariri reportedly failed to persuade Hizbullah and the Amal Movement to offer a partial (...)
Julien Barnes-Dacey, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said in an interview with Al-AhramWeekly that European foreign policy on the Middle East had become “short-sighted and (...)
“The EU will have to wait a long time before America has any clear strategy in Syria,” one baffled European diplomat told Al-Ahram Weekly this week, commenting on the apparent contradictions between US President Donald Trump and his defence (...)
When tribal chieftains met last week in a small town north of Baghdad to see what they should do with the protests that have gripped the country's south and capital city, one key question emerged: how will Iran respond if the uprising fails?
“They (...)
There has hardly been any positive news coming out of Iraq in nearly four decades and after the bloody eight-year war with Iran (1980-1988) that left millions of Iraqis killed, injured or missing in one of the bloodiest and longest wars of the 20th (...)
Lebanon's banks and schools were shut on Tuesday in a new wave of disruption as politicians struggled to agree on a new government to steer the country out of its worst economic crisis since the 1975-90 civil war.
President Michel Aoun said formal (...)
Egypt-based French artist Golo has launched an artistic residency that will take place at the House of Gourna in Luxor. Details of the initiative were revealed during the 5th edition of the CairoComix Festival (1-3 November).
Initiated by Golo, (...)
نظم عدد من المحتجين في لبنان، اليوم الخميس، اعتصامًا أمام منزل رئيس الحكومة السابق فؤاد السنيورة في مدينة صيدا.
وانطلقت اليوم، عدد من المسيرات الاحتجاجية الطلابية في عدة مناطق في لبنان رفضا لقرار عودة الدراسة ودعما لمطالب الحراك.
وقال مندوب "الوكالة (...)
The head of the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees has stepped aside until the end of an investigation into misconduct allegations, the agency said on Wednesday.
Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl stepped aside until a review of (...)
Banque Misr, Egypt's second largest bank, will expand its banking presence in 15 new markets across Africa, its chairman Mohamed Eletreby told Amwal Al Ghad on Tuesday.
"We have obtained the Central Bank of Egypt's approval to open a BM branch in (...)
After eight years, 2011 was reborn again two months before the end of 2019.
In Lebanon and Iraq, the people took to the streets to demonstrate against the ruling elites in both countries. The world watched people of all walks of life call for a (...)
