The unusually direct U.S. intervention in Lebanon's sectarian politics appears aimed at capitalizing on shifts in the power balance in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, with Iran-backed Hezbollah ...

Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times Issam Srour, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the American University of Beirut, said that landfills in Lebanon were already ...

Klaus also said there was "no direct impact" on the agency's Lebanon operations from a new Israeli law banning UNRWA operations in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Palestinians at ...

The U.S.-monitored arrangement between Lebanon and Israel will carry on until Feb. 18, the White House stated on Sunday evening — the day the prior agreement, struck on Nov. 26, was slated to end.

Al Habtoor withdrew investments in Lebanon on safety concerns Gulf has spurned Lebanon for years on Hezbollah influence Says will reconsider investing if Lebanon's security improves DUBAI ...

Lebanon, one of the most troubled countries in the Middle East, is once again at a critical crossroads. Several recent developments—a new leadership, a cessation of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict ...

An Israeli airstrike killed three Turkish citizens who attempted to cross illegally from Lebanon to Israel, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Wednesday. "We condemn in the strongest terms this ...

Attacks come on the day Israeli troops were supposed to withdraw from southern Lebanon and allow people to return home. A young man from Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburbs, another from a south Lebanon ...

BURJ AL MULUK, Lebanon: South Lebanon residents accompanied by the army tried to return to their villages on Monday (Jan 27), official media and AFP correspondents reported, a day after Israeli ...

The election of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is a political breakthrough in Lebanon and a harbinger of what could happen in a country long dismissed as unsalvageable. Beirut’s ...

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