Lebanon confirmed its first coronavirus case on Friday and said it was monitoring two other potential cases after a 45-year-old woman who returned from Iran tested positive, reported Reuters....

Three bodyguards of former minister Marwan Kheireddine yesterday confessed to the premeditated attack on financial journalist Mohammad Zbeeb. The attack took place in a car park in the Beirut...

A judge in Lebanon’s highest court yesterday overturned the death sentence of Tarek Houshieh, who was convicted of raping and murdering British embassy employee Rebecca Dykes in December 2017....

Lebanese President Michel Aoun today said that measures would be taken to hold accountable all those who contributed to the country’s financial crisis through illegal actions by transferring money...

A woman who became an icon of the Lebanese protests after karate kicking a ministerial bodyguard in the groin in October 2019, will face a military trial over the...

Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett has said that Israel is turning all its efforts towards Iran and reducing its efforts against Hezbollah and Hamas, Israel National News reported yesterday....

Lebanon will invite eight firms to bid to be its financial adviser as it studies all options on its sovereign debt, as the heavily indebted state battles a financial...

Lebanese people have flocked to social media to mock Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, after he called for a boycott of US goods and products in a speech on Sunday....

Lebanon is the world’s third-most indebted country and the lack of jobs has compelled a wave of Syrian refugees to go back to their war-torn home

Lebanon’s Directorate of General Security has announced that it has foiled an attack on the US Embassy in Beirut, allegedly by a Daesh militant. In a statement issued on...

The Israeli army yesterday launched military exercises in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa farms area. Lebanese state news agency (NNA) reported that “heavy artillery shells were heard coming from inside...

A repatriation clause requested by Lebanese President Michel Aoun in the new government’s policy statement is very clear: “They must return.” Aoun is using economic and political crises as...

A team of IMF experts will begin consultations with the Lebanese government in Beirut on Thursday, a source familiar with the matter said to Reuters, as the heavily indebted...

The Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah has unveiled a giant statue of the late General Qassem Soleimani

Lebanon’s state-owned carrier Middle East Airlines (MEA) will only accept payment in US dollars from Monday, the National News Agency and Reuters reported, as the country grapples with a...

Rafic Hariri, was assassinated on 14 February 2005, when nearly 1,800 kilograms of TNT explosive hidden in a Mitsubishi van was detonated next to his motorcade

A Syrian man held on suspicion of plotting an attack on the US Embassy in Lebanon was referred to trial on Thursday along with 20 other people, the Lebanese...

Lebanese economic and financial affairs journalist, Mohammad Zbeeb, was reportedly assaulted by police after leaving a talk in the Beirut district of Hamra yesterday evening. The Alternative Journalists syndicate...

Just a few days after the assassination of the head of Iran’s Quds Force, Qassim Soleimani, in a US drone attack in Iraq, Hezbollah met with leaders of Shia...

The Lebanese army fired at an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) at the Israeli-Lebanese border last night, forcing the drone to leave Lebanon’s airspace, the Daily Star Lebanon reported....

The Lebanese government will request “technical assistance” from the IMF to draw up a stabilisation plan to resolve the country’s financial and economic crisis, including plans to restructure public...

Two members of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) have died after sustaining injuries during a shooting at the Ouzai police station in Beirut yesterday. Major Jalal Shreif, the head...

The Lebanese parliament convened this morning to conduct a confidence vote for the new government, despite attempts by protesters to prevent the assembly from taking place. Speaker of the...

Three Lebanese Army intelligence soldiers were killed, and four were injured, after being ambushed while pursuing a stolen car near Hermel in northern Lebanon yesterday. A statement reported that...

The Syrian crisis has so far cost Lebanon $25 billion, according to estimates by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said. In an...

These refugees are crying out for food in these extreme weather conditions

Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi condemned, Sunday, Iran for its repeated trespassing of “red lines” in Iraq by interfering in the formation of the upcoming government headed by Mohammed...

Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim threw, on Saturday, a copy of the US’ so-called “deal of the century” in the bin, stressing that it “was born dead” and “should...

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that foreign states, particularly France, had expressed a desire to help his country emerge from a severe economic crisis, Reuters reports. As...

Hundreds of demonstrators protested Saturday in front of the Parliament building here against the Hassan Diab government and a vote of confidence to prevent a new government, Anadolu Agency...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun called on Friday for the security services: “Not to compromise any attempt to undermine the sovereignty of the state, its institutions and its official headquarters.”...

Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri said on Wednesday that the owners of five large banks have transferred “personal money” amounting to $2.3 billion abroad. Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper said the...