Lebanon

Some 40 Lebanese lawmakers, on Friday, became the latest group to back the judge investigating the catastrophic 2020 Beirut port blast and call for the country's top Prosecutor to...

The United Nations has stressed on the importance of maintaining calm on the border between Lebanon and Israel, Anadolu News Agency reported. This came in a statement issued Thursday...

The United States announced on Wednesday it would provide $72 million as cash stipends to Lebanon's security forces through a bespoke United Nations program after a currency meltdown slashed...

The UN cultural agency listed both as world heritage sites in danger, the first because of the conflict raging in Yemen since 2014

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee said the site was under threat of destruction from Yemen’s ongoing conflict.

The Lebanese Court of Cassation decided, on Wednesday, to release all those who were arrested in the Beirut port explosion in 2020, Anadolu News Agency reported. Public Prosecutor of...

The Lebanese lira has fallen to a record low against the US dollar, it has been reported. The currency has lost more than 95 per cent of its value...

It's only been a few days since General Herzl "Herzi" Halevy was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), succeeding Aviv Kochavi, whose four difficult years...

Lebanon's top Public Prosecutor, on Wednesday, charged the judge investigating the 2020 Beirut Port explosion that killed at least 220 people, of stymieing his effort to hold members of the...

Lebanon's top Public Prosecutor, on Wednesday, charged the Beirut Port blast investigating judge and ordered the release of those detained in connection with the explosion, after rejecting the judge's...

It is the unfortunate – or fortunate, depending on one's propensity to autocracy – nature of every decentralised system in this modern age to become centralised under the scope...

The Islamic Jihad in Palestine movement has launched an aid campaign in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon, Quds Press reported on Tuesday. "Launching this aid campaign stemmed from our...

The US Treasury said, on Tuesday, it was placing sanctions on Lebanese money exchanger, Hassan Moukalled, and his business for alleged financial ties to blacklisted group Hezbollah, Reuters reports....

A Lebanese judge plans to question judges and security officials into the 2020 Beirut port explosion next month, according to a judicial source on Tuesday. Judge Tarek Bitar resumed...

The Judge investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion has unexpectedly resumed his inquiry, more than a year after it was paralysed by political resistance to his attempts to interrogate...

The Lebanese army declared a state of alert on Sunday after Israeli forces approached "the technical fence" that separates the two countries, Anadolu has reported. "Enemy Israeli forces consisting...

Facebook users who search for "Hassan Nasrallah", the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement now see a warning message about "Dangerous Individuals and Organisations" and are given the choice between...

Lebanese Minister of Culture, Judge Muhammad Wissam Al-Murtada, on Friday called to lift the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, Quds Press reported. This came during a visit by a...

Lebanese MPs on Friday continued their sit-in inside Parliament for the second consecutive day in Beirut to protest the failure of the presidential elections. On Thursday, MPs Melhem Khalaf...

Lebanese bankers told European prosecutors they believed that commissions, now at the centre of a graft probe, had been paid to the Central Bank, four sources said, while investigators suspect the...

Protesters claim that the wages have become very low due to the depreciation of the Lebanese lira

Independent lawmakers in Lebanon are staging a sit-in at Parliament to pile pressure on dominant factions to elect a new president nearly three months since the post fell vacant...

Lebanon will pay arrears to the United Nations to regain its rights at the world body, its Foreign Ministry said on Friday, after the country, which is in deep...

Lebanon: MPs spend night in parliament in political protest

The Lebanese parliament held a session on Thursday in which it completed its eleventh attempt to elect a new president for the country but once again failed to accomplish...

The Lebanese army prevented, on Wednesday, an Israeli army bulldozer from completing excavation work after breaching the "technical fence" that separates Lebanon from Israel, Anadolu news agency reported, citing...

French judges visiting Beirut this week as part of an investigation into a massive port explosion in 2020 were denied access to documents from the Lebanese probe because it...

Palestinian refugees in Ein Al-Hilwa refugee camp in Lebanon have organised a protest in front of a clinic run by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), urging it...

Lebanon's caretaker government, on Wednesday, approved opening credit lines totalling $116 million to fix the country's electricity grid, Anadolu News Agency reports. "An advance of $62 million in favour...

European investigators are in Beirut quizzing witnesses as they probe suspected money laundering and embezzlement by Lebanese Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, who denies any wrongdoing and still enjoys support...

Relatives of those killed in the 2020 Beirut port blast say they have become targets of the Judiciary instead of senior officials who have still not been held to...

Iran currently has enough enriched uranium to make four nuclear bombs, Israel's outgoing military chief informed reporters on Friday. "Iran today has enough enriched material to produce four nuclear...