Apart from several MPs, Lebanon's information minister and environment minister both announced their resignations on Sunday
10 Aug 2020 10:30 AM
The head of Lebanon's Maronite church meanwhile called on the entire government to step down over the August 4 explosion
09 Aug 2020 3:47 PM
The move also looks to bring the United States a little closer to bringing its troops home and ending its longest military engagement
09 Aug 2020 1:33 PM
Protesters set up symbolic nooses at Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square to hang politicians whose corruption and negligence they blame for explosion
09 Aug 2020 9:57 AM
Iran's UN ambassador say a Mahan Airlines Airbus A310 en route to Beirut on July 23 was intercepted by two US F-15 fighter jets
08 Aug 2020 2:00 PM
"There are two possible scenarios for what happened: it was either negligence or foreign interference through a missile or bomb," he said
08 Aug 2020 11:56 AM
The decision will be the last step towards starting negotiations between Kabul’s political leadership and Taliban under a peace deal with US
07 Aug 2020 3:19 PM
Their posts frequently tag Saudi security agencies, and their collective roar often leads to detentions, sackings and harassment
07 Aug 2020 12:39 PM
The chemicals came to Beirut on a leaky Russian-leased cargo ship that, according to its captain, should never have stopped there
07 Aug 2020 9:28 AM
Probe is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate came to be stored at the facility for 6 years and why nothing was done about it
06 Aug 2020 9:12 AM
Lebaon's PM said 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored for years in a portside warehouse had blown up, leading to the second explosion
05 Aug 2020 9:11 AM
The afternoon blast shook several parts of the capital and thick smoke billowed from the city centre
04 Aug 2020 9:45 PM
Indians constitute the largest expatriate community in Oman, while more than nine million Indians work and live in the whole Gulf region
03 Aug 2020 5:24 PM
Reports say Sumesh was talking over the phone and threw it down minutes before the incident
03 Aug 2020 4:28 PM
The assault began on Sunday evening with car bomb detonated at the entrance to the prison, leading to numerous other blasts later
03 Aug 2020 12:19 PM
The special tribunal trying the four suspects accused of the assassination of Lebanon's ex-PM Rafic Hariri delivers its verdict on August 7
03 Aug 2020 11:52 AM
The judgment harks back to an event that changed the face of Middle East, leading to protests that pushed Syrian forces out of Lebanon
03 Aug 2020 10:30 AM
Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of the long-serving leader, who is on trial for corruption charges
03 Aug 2020 9:53 AM
Jamshid Sharmahd, alleged head of opposition royalist group known as the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, is charged with a 2008 bombing
02 Aug 2020 5:52 PM
Peretz is the second Israeli minister to have been infected with the virus after former health minister Yaakov Litzman
02 Aug 2020 1:31 PM