Lebanon

The head of the Syrian National Coalition Hadi al- Bahra has called on the Lebanese government to exert pressure on the Lebanese Hezbollah militia to withdraw its fighters from...

The Israeli army is currently preparing for the possibility of the eruption of "a very violent war" with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Israel's Channel 2 reported. In the report,...

Ten nongovernmental human rights organisations working in Lebanon issued a statement on Wednesday saying that under a new directive issued by General Security, Lebanon's security agency in charge of...

France and Saudi Arabia are finalising a $3 billion arms deal to provide the Lebanese army with weapons, the French presidency announced yesterday following talks between French President Francois...

Israel pounded southern Lebanon with 15 shells in response to rocket fire into Israel, a Lebanese security source said yesterday evening. The source, who preferred not to be named,...

Syrian refugees are barred from leaving Arsel despite urgently needing medical care, medical professionals and aid workers inside the embattled border town told Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star. Mahmoud...

The Lebanese cabinet has approved a Saudi grant worth 1$bn for the army and security forces, the minister of information said Thursday. According to the Lebanese minister of information,...

Israeli forces kidnapped a Lebanese shepherd early on Wednesday in the town of Sheebaa in southern Lebanon, after capturing a herd of sheep the day before. Lebanon's state news...

Dozens of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and their supporters commemorated the Palestinian victims of Israel's indiscriminate campaign of violence in Shujaiya, Gaza by releasing balloons symbolising those Palestinians who...

The Lebanese Parliament failed for the ninth time to elect a new president due to lack of quorum, a new hearing has been set for August 12, the parliamentary...

Eight major Lebanese TV channels yesterday evening aired a united news broadcast entitled "Palestine…You're not alone", in solidarity with the people of Gaza against the Israeli aggression which has...

Former Lebanese Prime Minister and head of Future Party Sa'd al-Hariri said on Friday that Lebanon is in danger as Hezbollah continues to fight in Syria. In a televised...

This week, Lebanon's border with Israel has seen escalating unrest agitated by the current aggression against Gaza. On Tuesday, Israel unleashed an artillery salvo on the outskirts of villages...

Rockets were fired for the third consecutive night in a row from southern Lebanon into northern Israel shortly after midnight, leading the Israeli army to respond with artillery fire...

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...