Antoine Khoury

The European Union is taking its most significant step toward re-engaging with Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, as EU foreign ministers meet Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani in Brussels Monday to launch a high-level political dialogue.

The United States has confirmed that government-level delegations from Israel and Lebanon will hold "intensive and detailed" discussions in Washington on 14 and 15 May, in what represents the most significant direct diplomatic engagement between the two countries in over four decades.

Emmanuel Macron arrived at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, Armenia on Monday and did what he does best: issued a solemn declaration about Lebanon that will change absolutely nothing.

Israel has firmly rejected claims circulating on social media and in some media outlets that a monastery in Yaroun, in southern Lebanon, was demolished by Israeli forces, calling the reports "false" and demanding an immediate public correction.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Wednesday that Lebanon is waiting for the United States to set a date for the start of formal negotiations with Israel, as the two countries navigate a delicate diplomatic process that has already yielded two rounds of preparatory talks in Washington.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has sent a message of solidarity to US President Donald Trump following the security incident that led to Trump being evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington on Saturday evening.

Ahmad al-Sharaa was received in Cyprus alongside Arab leaders as Brussels prepares to open a new chapter with Damascus. His trajectory from rebel commander to statesman remains deeply uncomfortable for many.

Two French soldiers are dead. Killed in the same ambush, by the same fighters, in the same corner of southern Lebanon that the international community has spent twenty years trying, and failing,  to pacify.

The gradual return of normalcy to Lebanon is gaining momentum. Flydubai, Dubai's second largest carrier after Emirates, has announced the resumption of its flights to Beirut on April 18.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has signaled his country's desire for full normalization with Lebanon, just ahead of a key round of peace talks scheduled in Washington.

Speaking to the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square following his traditional Sunday prayer, Pope Leo XIV said he felt "closer than ever" to the Lebanese people "in these days of pain, fear and indestructible hope in God." 

Syria's Interior Ministry announced Saturday that its counter-terrorism directorate, in cooperation with the internal security command around Damascus, had thwarted a bomb plot targeting a religious figure near a Maronite church in the Bab Touma district of the capital, and has linked the cell to Hezbollah.