Lebanon

Saad Hariri's recent decision to suspend his political activities is "very sad", prominent politician and the leader of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party said yesterday. Walid Jumblatt told Reuters...

Hariri has served three times as Prime Minister, but his political fortunes have waned in recent years, with his position weakened by the loss of Saudi support.

Complaining of foreign influence and a fragmented public, a prominent former Lebanese premier, on Monday, announced that he had "suspended" work in Lebanon's politics, Anadolu News Agency reports. At...

Lebanon must not be a platform for hostile acts or words, Kuwait's foreign minister said on Sunday while visiting Beirut, an indirect call for curbs on the Iran-backed group...

Interpol has asked authorities in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, to detain the Spanish-Lebanese arms dealer Abdul Rahman El Assir, who has been seen there...

A Hamas delegation concluded, on Wednesday, a visit to Algeria where they presented the group's vision to achieve Palestinian reconciliation, the former Hamas Representative in Lebanon, Ali Baraka, said...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced, on Tuesday, that it is seeking $1.6 billion in 2022 from the international community. In a statement,...

The US imposed sanctions on three people and their company in Lebanon, on Tuesday, for their alleged links to Hezbollah, according to the Treasury Department and reported by Anadolu...

The rise in global food prices will have repercussions on the Middle East where high prices and deteriorating living conditions sparked the Arab Spring revolutions, reports The New Arab's...

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon went on a general strike on Monday in protest at the alleged inaction of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in relation to the...

The Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water denied on Sunday Israeli media reports claiming that it had agreed a US brokered deal to import gas "indirectly" from the occupation...

The US has reportedly allowed Israel to supply cash-strapped Lebanon with gas via Jordan, according to local Israeli media. Israeli Channel 12 said an agreement was reached between Washington...

Powerful Lebanese groups Hezbollah and Amal said on Saturday they would end a boycott of cabinet sessions, opening the way for ministers to meet after a three-month gap that...

People in Lebanon took to the streets, on Thursday, in a number of cities in what protesters called "day of rage" against the deteriorating living conditions, the free fall...

Lebanon's Hezbollah movement hosted a conference yesterday for Saudi oppositionists in its stronghold, south of Beirut. Joining Saudi dissident figures at the event, which was intended to commemorate the...

A powerful explosion rocked a building used by Hezbollah in Lebanon's southern Nabatieh district on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The building, a social services office of Hezbollah for...

The head of the Executive Assembly of Hezbollah, Hashem Safieddine, demanded on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia should stop what he described as its "hegemony" over the Lebanese people and...

A French top diplomat said the United Arab Emirates will join a Saudi-French common fund that aimed to provide support to Lebanon, Reuters reports. According to the report, France's Foreign...

Lebanese central bank head banned from foreign travel while fraud investigations continue

Lebanese people yesterday took to the streets to denounce the collapse of the value of the lira against the US dollar. On Monday, the US dollar amounted to almost...

The Lebanese lira is continuing its downward trend against the US dollar, local media have reported. The currency fell to 32,000 lira to the dollar on the black market....

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in closed meeting held yesterday morning that Israel might go into a military confrontation with Lebanon or Gaza soon, Ynet News reported. During a meeting of the...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, on Monday, called for dialogue to resolve world crises and achieve peace, Anadolu News Agency reports. Sisi made the call as he opened a...

Kuwait has renewed the detention of 8 individuals suspected of financing the Iran-backed Lebanese group, Hezbollah, as the dispute between Gulf states and the group continues to grow. In...

Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Lebanon accused Hezbollah of threatening Arab national security, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking to the Saudi Okaz newspaper on Thursday, Walid Bukhari said the Lebanese...

A group of unknown perpetrators attacked United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night, according to a UN official. The 'blue helmets' had their vehicles vandalised and official...

A common trope over the past decade has been the notion that Lebanon has been "held hostage" by the Hezbollah movement and its chief backer, Iran. This is based...

A video showing a Lebanese man assaulting a foreign worker in a town in Lebanon has gone viral on social media

Lebanon's Minister of Interior and Municipalities has ordered all posters deemed to be offensive to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be removed from streets in the southern suburbs...

Lebanon's former Prime Minister Saad Hariri yesterday criticised Hezbollah for accusing Saudi Arabia of spreading extremism and terrorist ideologies in the region. Earlier on Monday, Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah...

Lebanon's Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, has rebuked the Hezbollah movement after its Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, accused Saudi Arabia of exporting Daesh's ideology and taking aim at King Salman,...

A Syrian mother and her three children died in their sleep after inhaling toxic fumes from burning coal to heat their room in a village in southern Lebanon, a...