Lebanon

Israeli forces this morning shelled several areas in southern Lebanon with dozens of rocket-propelled grenades, a Lebanese security source said. The source told the Anadolu news agency that three...

Senior Hamas official in Lebanon Osama Hamdan denied on Friday any effort exerted to reach a truce between his movement and Israel regarding the ongoing escalation in the West...

Anti-Syrian groups in Lebanon have expressed their concerns about the potential nomination of Bahjat Suleiman as the new Syrian ambassador to Beirut after he was dismissed as Syrian ambassador...

The Lebanese parliament failed, for the eighth time yesterday, to elect a new president to succeed President Michel Suleiman whose term ended in May, prolonging the power vacuum in...

The Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, a group that has claimed responsibility for a number of recent attacks in Lebanon, declared on Monday its allegiance to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi,...

One person was killed and 20 more were wounded by a suicide car bombing at a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Beirut on Monday night, the Lebanese Red Cross and...

A suicide bomb attack targeted a police checkpoint on Friday in east Lebanon on the Beirut-Damascus highway, killing one police officer and wounding 33 people, the Daily Star reported....

The countries participating in the Rome Conference to support the Lebanese army affirmed their readiness to provide it with special technical support. The Conference, which was held in the...

Lebanese judges today sought the death penalty for two detainees, in two separate cases, a Palestinian and a Syrian – as well as four other Syrian fugitives – on...

"Italy encourages the Lebanese political forces to reach an agreement on the presidential election and to elect a new president as soon as possible"; Italy's state television reported the...

During the last Israeli war against Lebanon in 2006, the Lebanese resistance forces, led by Hezbollah, mostly stayed north of the border. Aside from a brief border skirmish that...

Syrian refugees cost Lebanon $1 billion directly and $3.5 billion indirectly every year based on a study prepared by the International Monetary Fund, the Governor of the Lebanese Central...

Lebanon's Minister of Public Health Wael Abu Faour said "the door to a political compromise in the presidential elections is not open yet" calling "not to hold any third...

Syrian society has never truly been studied scientifically, neither before nor after the revolution began. The reason is that researchers cannot move about the country freely to conduct individual...

Few people outside Lebanon noticed when the government gave itself the power to strip Syrians of their refugee status. While the world's eyes were trained on the election in...

Analysts suggest that Gulf countries are expecting tangible steps from Iran to prove its willingness to change its policies in the region ahead of the planned visit by Kuwaiti...

The UN Security Council issued a statement on Thursday voicing its "disappointment and concern" over the failure to elect a new president in Lebanon within the constitutional time frame,...

Last week, Facebook banned "Syrian refugees for marriage", a page that had had numerous complaints about its abusive message. Promoting the capitalisation of vulnerable Syrian refugee girls and their...

'American Foreign Policy & the Muslim World' is a compilation of academic essays and articles aimed at 'dispel naïve ideas and misconceptions…about US foreign policy'. The editors were...

Remnants of the former South Lebanon Army (SLA) in Israel on Wednesday asked the Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai to secure their return to Lebanon, according to the Arabs 48...

A Lebanese court yesterday rejected a request from Tunisia to confiscate funds held in a Lebanese bank account that belongs to the wife of Tunisia's ousted president Zine El...

Lebanon is currently witnessing presidential vacuum as outgoing President Michel Suleiman ended his 6-year-term on Saturday without having a successor. A farewell ceremony was held for Suleiman at the...

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said on Friday evening that political deadlock has delayed the achievement of many things in the country. In a speech during a celebration with journalists,...

Amnesty International accused the international community of ignoring the needs of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and warned that the great deficient in international aid will mean that they...

How has the Arab Spring changed Arab perceptions of their citizenship? Immeasurable sacrifices and atrocities were committed as millions took to the streets with the prospect of shaping democratically-elected...

Lebanon's former Prime Minister and Head of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri has met with the Free Patriotic Movement leader, MP Michel Aoun to discuss the power vacuum as...

Organized by Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations The conference on "The European Foreign Policy towards the Palestinian Issue" was convened in Beirut on the 3rd and 4th of...

On the 4th and 5th of November, the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) was present at a conference in Beirut, convened by the Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations under...

Sectarian strife, catalysed by chronic national marginalisation, severe economic and infrastructural decline and state negligence are all combining to push the once-prosperous commercial hub of Tripoli in north Lebanon...

Today around 300,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, yet only 2% of them have work permits. Lebanese law bans Palestinians from working in most professions; those that do work...

Last month top UN officials warned that Syrians are expected to surpass Afghans as the world's largest refugee population. Going into the fourth year of the bloody revolution-turned-war, an...

It seems to be the official message from Lebanon that Palestinians have long overstayed their not so pleasant stay. Testing times ahead for Lebanon, then, with the difficult accommodation...