The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday jailed six Lebanese men, four of them for life, for setting up a terrorist cell with links to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the state news...

Retired soldiers in Lebanon, concerned about any pension or benefit cuts as the government debates a draft budget, started picketing the Central Bank building late on Sunday, saying they...

Video footage of a young Lebanese man, based in Saudi Arabia, seeking help from Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah after being fired from his job, provoked the anger of a...

Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, the former patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite church who presented himself as a champion of Christian rights and pushed for Syrian forces to leave his country, died...

Lebanon’s military judicial investigation authorities have referred 17 Syrians and Palestinians to the country’s military court. The individuals face several different charges, including joining “dangerous terrorist organisations and groups...

Lebanese central bank staff said they had postponed a meeting on Friday to decide whether to resume or end a strike they began on Monday over state budget proposals...

Lebanon would never survive if half a million Palestinian refugees and 1.6 million Syrian refugees remained in the country, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, said yesterday. Aoun remarks came...

The UAE Ambassador to Lebanon, Hamad Said Al-Shamsi, said yesterday that his country would lift the ban on its citizens travelling to Lebanon “soon”. Al-Shamsi told reporters after a...

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri issued an administrative memorandum requesting the official departments and all regulatory bodies in the country to take legal action against state employees who participate...

Lebanese central bank workers decided to suspend their strike today until Friday when they will meet to decide whether to halt or resume the walkout, Reuters reported their syndicate...

Lebanese central bank employees went on strike on Monday over state budget proposals that would cut their benefits but said they may be ready to take a decision to...

A sound installation which highlights the torture prisoners endure in Syria's regime jail was development from interviews with former inmates

“There are not many jobs where the first thing your colleague says to you in the morning is, ‘We have another dead woman’,” read a recent post on the...

Farah Ballout’s big, infectious smile is the first thing that greets you at her workplace, a cafe in Lebanon with a mission to do more than just brew coffee,...

Iran has begun evacuating its troops in the Syrian eastern town of Deir Al-Zor after “an unidentified aircraft” allegedly flew over the area “for half an hour,” The Jerusalem...

Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Bou Saab warned on Wednesday that the Lebanese army will attack Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv if Israel attacks Beirut airport. “If Israel...

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said his country is prepared to demarcate its maritime border with Israel through the same mechanism used to draw the Blue Line under the...

The US Treasury, moving to boost pressure on Hezbollah, imposed sanctions on Wednesday against two people and three firms that Washington accuses of being involved in schemes to help...

The US State Department offered a reward yesterday of $10 million for information leading to the disruption of the finances of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. The fund is for those...

This month marks the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, which sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in the early morning of 15 April,...

A minister in the administration of the Houthi-run area of Yemen died in a Lebanese hospital on Saturday, a Lebanese official told Reuters on Monday, confirming earlier Houthi media...

TV presenter Sally Abdal Salam, told the details of her crisis at Beirut airport and asked for urgent interference from the Egyptian Embassy after her mother was insulted by...

The family of a Lebanese cameraman who has gone missing in war-torn Syria are waiting for any information about his fate. Samir Kassab, a cameraman for the Dubai-based Sky...

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Lebanon’s draft budget for 2019 projects a deficit of less than 9 percent of GDP compared to 11.2 percent in 2018 and includes “wide reductions” in spending based on...

The US flew a plane full of military equipment to Lebanon yesterday in ongoing efforts to bolster the army’s capabilities. A tweet from the US embassy in Beirut said...

Lebanese security agencies passed on a warning to Hamas officials in the country over suspicious Israeli activities which may target them, Quds Press reported yesterday. Reporting a senior Arabic...

Saudi Arabia has agreed to pay $23 million in aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the organisation announced...

Lebanon Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Gebran Bassil yesterday met with French Ambassador to Lebanon Bruno Foucher and German Ambassador to Lebanon George Berglin to discuss a number...

A global campaign to resist normalisation with the Israeli occupation was launched todayin Beirut, Lebanon, with the participation of national, political, pan-Arab and cultural Palestinian and Lebanese figures. This...

Palestinian-Lebanese talks are expected to be held to discuss the rights of Palestine refugees in Lebanon, a Hamas member revealed yesterday. Al-Ray news site said the dialogue would be...

Lebanon’s army yesterday announced that it had received six drones worth $11 million from the United States (US). In an official statement, the Lebanese forces explained that the shipment...