Lebanon

The head of Lebanon's powerful armed group, Hezbollah, on Friday, denied his group was involved in narcotics smuggling and said it had no links to an alleged drug kingpin...

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied on Thursday media reports claiming Riyadh had proposed compensation to Syria, in return for curbing the "production and smuggling" of the amphetamine...

German federal prosecutors yesterday announced the arrest of two alleged members of Hezbollah on suspicion of recruiting and organising activities for the Lebanese movement, which is banned in the...

There are 1.8 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon and in 2023 the Lebanese authorities launched a campaign to return them with 600 being deported so far

Many Israelis believe that a confrontation with Lebanon's Hezbollah would be devastating. Tension on the border continues, though, with a number of incidents in recent weeks. Hezbollah has been...

Lebanon topped the list of countries with the highest food price inflation rates in the world, recording a 352 per cent nominal food inflation rate, a World Bank report...

Lebanese Energy Minister Walid Fayyad signed contracts with 11 private sector companies on Friday for the construction of new solar power plants, in a bid to address the country's energy crisis. Lebanon's residents have been facing daily power cuts lasting up to 20 hours as the country grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.

European prosecutors, on Friday, questioned Lebanon's Finance Minister, Youssef El-Khalil, a senior judicial source said, as part of their probe into whether the country's long-standing Central Bank Governor embezzled hundreds...

Overlooked by a portrait of President Bashar Al-Assad and offering sticky sweets, a Syrian tourism booth in Dubai is trying to seize on an emerging rapprochement with Arab States...

The Lebanese government has called on governorates in the country to stop renting apartments or issuing documents to unregistered Syrian refugees in the country. Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi also...

Egyptian author Shady Lewis' latest book opens the world of migrants to a Western audience

Turkish citizens living in Lebanon on Monday started casting their ballots for Turkiye's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, reports Anadolu Agency. Some 8,336 Turks who are eligible to vote...

Syrian refugees detained by security forces in Lebanon and deported have been subject to arrest and forced conscription upon return to their war-ravaged homeland, their relatives and rights advocates...

Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Friday planted an olive tree at the southern Lebanese borders, near Israel, expressing: "We are here to highlight our support for...

European investigators in Beirut questioned an assistant to Lebanon's Central Bank Governor on Thursday as part of a probe into whether the Governor embezzled and laundered hundreds of millions...

As Lebanese businessman, Ahmad Shams, sheltered in the hotel he ran in Khartoum from the gunfire and shelling that erupted there this month, it brought back flashbacks of the civil...

A collective show at CUE Art Foundation in New York reflects on the hybrid identities of Arab Americans. Called "A thought is a memory", the show is curated by...

Lebanon has been in a crippling economic crisis in recent years. Food prices in Lebanon have soared by 350%

A dual Lebanese-Belgian citizen accused by the United States of financing Lebanon's Hezbollah has been extradited from Romania and faced sanctions evasion and money laundering charges on Wednesday in...

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior yesterday announced the arrest of three "dangerous" drug dealers, one of whom was arrested in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The ministry said in a...

The brother of Lebanon's Central Bank Governor did not attend a hearing in Beirut on Tuesday with European investigators probing whether the siblings embezzled and laundered hundreds of millions...

Amnesty International yesterday called on the Lebanese authorities to "immediately stop deporting refugees back to Syria … amid fears that Syrian refugees are at risk of torture or persecution...

Two Syrian refugees were arrested and detained by Syrian regime authorities upon their forced return to the country from Lebanon, as Lebanese authorities last week began implementing controversial deportation...

A Lebanese-Canadian university professor was found guilty in absentia Friday for a bomb attack on a Paris synagogue more than 40 years ago, reports Anadolu Agency. Hassan Diab, 69,...

Approval ratings of Saudi Arabia's leadership was found to be higher than Iran's across all 13 Muslim-majority countries surveyed by in a poll conducted by US analytics firm, Gallup....

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that Saudi Arabia could regret its rapprochement with Tehran as Iran is the reason for most of the problems in the Middle East,...

The United States is offering a reward of up to $7 million for information on a senior leader in the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, 40 years after the bombing of...

Lebanon is experiencing one of the worst financial crises seen globally since the mid-nineteenth century, the local currency is in freefall and has left many unable to provide for their most basic needs

Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash, the former head of Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman), yesterday warned that the United States might not supply Israel with weapons in any future war, Ma'an News reported. Ze'evi-Farkash's warning, the news site said, came in the...

US prosecutors, on Tuesday, charged Nazem Ahmad, an alleged financier of Lebanon's Hezbollah, with evading US sanctions imposed on him by exporting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of...

The deteriorating security situation has given Israelis a great opportunity to list the failures of the new government 100 days after its formation. Members of the current coalition admit that many...

When Israel launched a war against the Gaza Strip in August 2022, it declared that its target was the Islamic Jihad only. Indeed, neither Hamas nor the other Gaza-based...