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A prominent Hezbollah commander, Muhammad Ali Yunis, was killed by unknown gunmen on Sunday morning in southern Lebanon, Iranian and Lebanese media reported. The Iranian semi-official Fars news agency...

Several flights carrying Lebanese stranded abroad by coronavirus lockdowns began arriving in Beirut on Sunday, part of a trial run to see whether thousands looking to come home can...

An Iranian cleric once uttered in a reckless statement that Iran controls four Arab capitals, namely: Beirut, Damascus, Sanaa and Baghdad. Many anti-Iran parties held debates on this statement,...

In recent weeks, accusations have circulated that Hezbollah’s coronavirus response plan is a cover-up for a huge number of unreported COVID-19 cases in Lebanon. Indeed, the Lebanese government, at...

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab scratched discussions of senior banking appointments from the cabinet’s agenda in a session yesterday. According to reports, Diab withdrew the item for discussion at the start...

An Israeli infantry force crossed the fence along the Lebanese-Israeli border and carried out a search operation, forcing the Lebanese army and UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon)...

Lebanon has introduced discriminatory restrictions on Syrian refugees that do not apply to Lebanese residents  as part of its effort to combat COVID-19

The European Union has agreed a $262 million package for countries hosting refugees and vulnerable persons from the Middle East, raising the total EU response to the Syrian crises...

Philippines Ambassador to Lebanon Bernardita Catalla died early this morning of coronavirus in Beirut, according to local media reports. Catalla, 62, was being treated in a hospital in Beirut...

Lebanon’s labour ministry announced yesterday that it will investigate the death of a Ghanaian migrant domestic worker after an Al Jazeera report revealed how she feared for her life because of alleged abuse...

In Lebanon pets are being poisoned after false reports claimed animals can spread coronavirus and infect humans

The Islamic Health Society affiliated to Hezbollah launched its coronavirus response plan, the “Societal Resistance for a Country Free of the Coronavirus Pandemic,” yesterday in the southern Lebanese town...

Lebanon’s government agreed yesterday to facilitate the return of Lebanese citizens abroad starting on 5 April, Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad announced in a statement. Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti...

Lebanese banks have suspended all dollar withdrawals until the airport reopens, AFP reported yesterday. The move comes more than two weeks after the government announced a nationwide shutdown to...

Residents in the north Lebanon city of Tripoli broke the curfew last night and took to the streets to protest about the lack of compensation from the government for...

Lebanese hospitals have been turning away undocumented people or setting prohibitively high costs for coronavirus testing, leaving many to fear for their health, according to a report by Al...

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri threatened on Saturday to suspend his support for Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s government if it did not act to bring home expatriates stranded abroad...

Lebanese security forces cleared away a protest camp in central Beirut on Saturday and reopened roads blocked by demonstrators since protests against the governing elite started in October, Reuters...

Between 3 and 4am on 14 March, 23-year-old Ghanaian Faustina Tay’s body was found in a car park under her employer’s fourth-storey home in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Fewer than...

The Rafic Hariri University Hospital in Beirut has staged protests over the non-payment of their rightful salaries

The government in Lebanon is preparing to fly citizens stranded abroad by the coronavirus pandemic back to Beirut, Minister of Information Manal Abdul Samad said on Thursday. “Those Lebanese...

Lebanon’s Higher Defence Council has today recommended extending the state of “general mobilisation” period until 12 April, as part of nationwide measures to combat the spread of coronavirus. The...

To tackle the outbreak of the coronavirus, Hezbollah's Health unit disinfects the streets of Lebanon

Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri announced that parliament will start holding legislative meetings online in a statement on Wednesday. Local media Al-Joumhouria quoted Berri as saying that “the meetings will...

23-year-old domestic worker Faustina Tay was found dead in a car park under her employers’ fourth-storey home in Lebanon

Chairman of the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) Salim Sfeir announced plans to donate $6 million to government hospitals battling coronavirus, in a press conference yesterday. The money...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh announced on Tuesday that the organisation will allocate $500,000 to support Palestinian refugees living in camps in Lebanon during the coronavirus pandemic. Haniyeh said the...

This method of interrogation is the first of its kind in Lebanon and is part of social distancing measures put in place to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

The Humanitarian Fund of Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has donated more than $43 million to the UN Refugee Agency to support displaced populations in Yemen, Lebanon, Bangladesh and Chad, UNHCR said in a press release on...

On 2 December last year, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Crossing on a visit that was supposed to last for a few days....

Former Khiam prison guard and associate of Amer Fakhoury, Antoine Al-Hayek, was shot dead in the village of Mieh Mieh near the southern Lebanese port of Sidon on Sunday....