اندلع حريق كبير بالمدينة الصناعية في لبنان، ما أدى إلى احتراق عدد من السيارات، حسبما أفاد موقع "النشرة" اللبناني، الخميس.
وعلى الفور، هرع الدفاع المدني اللبناني إلى مكان الحادث، ويعملون على إخماد الحريق.
حريق كبير في المدينة الصناعية في مدينة (...)
An international conference on Lebanon on Wednesday raised some $370 million in aid to meet the country's humanitarian needs, one year after the massive explosion at Beirut's port, the French presidency said.
The pledges, to be delivered over the (...)
ناشد البابا فرنسيس، بابا الفاتيكان، اليوم الأربعاء، المجتمع الدولي بأن يقدم مساعدات إلى لبنان، حتى "يعود لبنان ليكون رسالة سلام وأخوة".
Today, a year after the terrible port explosion in the capital Beirut, I appeal to the international community (...)
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) urged "maximum restraint" along the Lebanese-Israeli border on Wednesday after Israel had announced that missile attacks were launched from Lebanon into its territory.
A missile exploded in an open site, (...)
Banks, businesses and government offices were shuttered Wednesday as Lebanon marks one year since the horrific explosion at the port of Beirut with a national day of mourning.
The grim anniversary comes amid an unprecedented economic and financial (...)
Three rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory and the army fired back, the military said. There was no immediate information on damage or injuries.
The announcement came after sirens sounded in northern Israel on Wednesday warning of (...)
Lebanon sometimes looks for leaders who are not affiliated to any of its powerful forces or families as a way of easing tensions. In the case of new Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, this may at least partially explain how he managed to earn the (...)
In an article of mine that appeared in Al-Masry Al-Youm on 5 May 2013, "The four faces of the revolution," I attempted to depict the general course of events in Egypt for two and a half years since January 2011, and to forecast what lay ahead. At (...)
Cairo welcomed Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra this week, a visit that demonstrated the strong, decades-old ties between the two countries. The late leader president Gamal Abdel-Nasser supported Algeria's long, just war for independence (...)
Lebanon marked its centenary on 1 September last year amid continuing upheaval and distress. In addition to the explosions that took place at the Beirut Port on 4 August last year, there has also been the country's worst and by far the most (...)
It has been a year since Nassif Hitti, a prominent Lebanese diplomat, resigned from his job as the country's foreign minister.
On 3 August 2020, almost 24 hours before Beirut was hit by devastating blasts in its port where a poorly stored shipment (...)
While the Gulf media – Saudi outlets in particular – have focused on Tehran protests calling for the downfall of the regime, the Iranian media is talking about an imminent breakthrough in Saudi-Iranian relations.
An invitation was extended to Saudi (...)
Dalia Khamissi, a photographer from Beirut, was sitting on her sofa trying to get a bite to eat and have a heart-to-heart chat with a friend on the phone when her friend suddenly stopped and said, "fire! There's a huge fire right in front of me!"
"I (...)
Salimullah, a Rohingya refugee, has been living in the Indian capital of New Delhi since 2013 when he fled violence in Myanmar. Stateless, and now homeless after a fire razed his camp, the 35-year-old lives in a tent with as many as 10 other people (...)
Egypt's state-run construction firm Arab Contractors has won a bid to develop Lebanon's Port of Tripoli and its facilities, Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon Yasser Elwi announced on Thursday.
Ambassador Elwi made the announcement during his visit to (...)
The United States and the United Kingdom joined Israel on Sunday in alleging Iran carried out a fatal drone strike on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, putting further pressure on Tehran as it denied being involved in the (...)
The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of the cargo had gone missing.
As the first anniversary (...)
The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast has risen to four and firefighters were battling blazes for a third day on Friday after the evacuation of dozens of villages and some hotels.
More than 60 wildfires have broken out across 17 (...)
واصلت الجهات المعنية فى لبنان جهودها للسيطرة على الحرائق التي اندلعت أمس فى غابات الصنوبر بمنطقة القبيات بمحافظة عكار شمالى لبنان، فيما امتدت الحرائق لتشمل منطقة الهرمل شمال شرقي لبنان وصولا إلى الحدود اللبنانية السورية.
وأعلن الجيش اللبنانى صباح (...)
A wildfire raged in a forested area of mountainous northern Lebanon on Wednesday, reaching just outside some residential homes and killing a 15-year old who was helping firefighters put out the blaze, the civil defense and state news agency (...)
Egypt's Arab Contractors Company has won a bid to develop Tripoli port and its facilities, Egypt's Ambassador to Lebanon Yasser Elwi announced on Thursday.
The ambassador made the announcement during his visit to the port in north Lebanon, where he (...)
Lebanese firefighters struggled for the second day on Thursday to contain wildfires in the country's north that have spread across the border into Syria, civil defense officials in both countries said.
The fires killed at least one person, a (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed the latest developments in Tunisia as well as the latest developments concerning the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam "GERD" with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian over the phone on Thursday, (...)
Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati said on Wednesday that he hoped to form a government shortly after securing the approval of President Michel Aoun for most of his nominees.
Mikati, a businessman, is the third potential prime minister (...)
The recent spike in tensions between Israel and the Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah have led some political analysts to notch up their forecasts of a war between the two to "impending".
They base their predictions on the broader area of friction (...)
