Lebanon

Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar repeated on Friday the Israeli claims that the Karish field located in the disputed maritime zone between Israel and Lebanon is an Israeli area,...

The Lebanese government has revealed a plan to deport Syrian refugees from Lebanon, in cooperation with the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad. The Lebanese Minister of Displaced Affairs, Issam...

Lebanon's Najib Mikati was named Prime Minister on Thursday, urging fractious politicians to set aside differences to secure an IMF deal which he said was the only chance to save the...

Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, met with Hamas Political Chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Beirut, according to the Lebanese group on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. A Hezbollah statement said discussions...

Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, prepares to restore relations with the Syrian regime after a 10-year hiatus, a Palestinian source said on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The two sides...

The deal, signed at a ceremony at the Lebanese Energy Ministry in Beirut, would see gas piped to Lebanon's northern Deir Ammar power plant

The head of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement is due to arrive in Beirut today with a Hamas delegation. Ismail Haniyeh is scheduled to meet...

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other human rights organisations have warned against the forcible return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon. They pointed out that they have documented evidence...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned the remarks of Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai who called for the removal of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon. The movement's spokesman...

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, on Monday threatened to expel Syrian refugees from the country if the international community fails to repatriate them. "Eleven years after the start...

A special UN-backed court has found two members of the Hezbollah militant organisation guilty for the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafic Hariri in 2005, sentencing them to...

The Lebanese Order of Physicians (LOP) has warned that the country's health sector is on the verge of collapse due to the emigration of the veteran generation of doctors....

Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philip Lazzarini, said yesterday that "there are no plans to delegate UNRWA's tasks to other parties,...

Turkiye's state-run aid agency, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has supported the renovation and reopening of an Orthodox church in Lebanon, built 170 years ago. The agency,...

US Energy Envoy, Amos Hochstein, arrived in Beirut on Monday for talks with Lebanese officials on a maritime border dispute with Israel over the development of a gas field,...

Over the past 15 years, 22,111 Israeli military aircraft have violated Lebanese airspace, a report has found. According to the site, Air Pressure, 8,231 fighter jets and 13,102 Unmanned...

On this day in 1978, Israeli military forces finally withdrew from Lebanon three months after their invasion of southern Lebanon in an effort to hunt down and eliminate the...

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib announced on Friday that the Greek Foreign Ministry had summoned the Lebanese Chargé d'Affairs to Athens. Bou Habib informed Al-Mayadeen TV that the...

The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said yesterday that his group could stop Israel from extracting gas from a maritime field that Beirut says lies in disputed waters, adding Hezbollah...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has picked a resident representative for Lebanon, the multilateral lender's spokesman, Gerry Rice, said on Thursday, Reuters reports. Rice, who did not specify who...

A new report has shed light on the extent of "Gendered crimes" against women and girls during the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), a conflict which claimed the lives...

Israel said yesterday that it will continue gas exploration in the Karish field in the Mediterranean despite Lebanese objections, Anadolu reported. The Israeli Ministers of Defence, Foreign Affairs and Energy, Benny...

Outside one of Lebanon's leading hospitals, desperate parents arrive seeking help for their sick children, while inside its pediatric intensive care unit the beds lie empty and unattended. There...

Egypt has made a new record high in gas imports from Israel in the first quarter of the year. According to the weekly newsletter by the Middle East Economic...

Lebanese Hezbollah has declared that it is ready to use "force" against Israel if the Lebanese government states that Israel is violating its water rights, deputy leader Sheikh Naim...

Transcripts from a White House meeting during the Israeli war on Lebanon in 1982 showed Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin pushed for the expulsion of Palestine refugees from Lebanon to Libya or Saudi Arabia, Haaretz revealed yesterday. Journalist Ofer Aderet wrote...

A dispute between Israel and Lebanon over their maritime boundary has obstructed energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean and risks exacerbating tensions between two foes. After months of deadlock...

Lebanon warns Israel against aggressive action in their disputed waters after a rig arrived to produce gas for Tel Aviv

Lebanese Hezbollah yesterday warned that it would not accept Israel to work in the Karish gas field located in the disputed maritime zone, Sama news agency reported. This came following the...

Lebanon yesterday warned Israel against "encroaching" on its maritime wealth after the arrival of Greece's Energean Power floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to the area, Jordan's Assabeel newspaper reported. The rig...

An offshore drilling platform tasked with extracting gas for Israel has reached a disputed maritime area with Lebanon, 80 kilometres from Israel's shores, Channel 12 reported. The platform, owned by Greek...

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib announced on Friday that Lebanon might not continue to host displaced Syrians if Europe fails to adopt a clear roadmap to return them...