[1] The newspaper's writers have included Ibrahim Al Amine, As'ad AbuKhalil, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb,[2] Sharmine Narwani, Pierre Abi Saab, and Amer Mohsen.

[7] In December 2010, Al Akhbar received and published an advance copy of the US State Department cables leak, after which the newspaper's website was hacked.

[12] Al Akhbar's English-language website ended operations on 6 March 2015, and plans to shift to a print newspaper were cancelled, in part due to a lack of funds.

"[15] Marwan Hamadeh, a member of the 14 March Alliance and a deputy in Lebanon's legislature, and news reports in publications such as The New York Times and Wall Street Journal have described Al Akhbar as pro-Hezbollah.

"[19] In his 2012 and 2013 Al Akhbar English language columns, writer As'ad AbuKhalil criticized both Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah.

[23][24] New York Times journalist Mark Ashurst described the newspaper as having "close links to the government" of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

[26] In an interview with The Real News he said that "It was too much to have my name and reputation associated with open Assad apologists when the scale of atrocities had become so extreme and when the editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar was offering friendly advice to Bashar al-Assad on the website of Al-Akhbar, you know, painting him as this kind of genuine, earnest reformer who just needed to get rid of the bad men around him and cut out some of the rich oligarchs who happened to be his cousins, and then everything would be fine.

[26][29] On 31 January 2014, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the assassination of the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, located in the Netherlands, indicted the newspaper and its editor Ibrahim Mohamed Al Amin, ordering them to answer various charges in front of the court, on charges of contempt of the court and obstruction of justice after the newspaper published two articles pretending to reveal confidential information on protected witnesses.