Tag: Lebanon

BEIRUT: Lebanon this month turned down a long-standing offer of Russian military aid that had caused concern for the United States, a major backer...

  BEIRUT: Lebanon's Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on Monday that Israel was seeking to "justify another aggression" with false allegations of missile sites belonging...

BEIRUT: Lebanon's security forces said Thursday they had detained a Palestinian refugee allegedly linked to the Islamic State group over two poisoning plots, one...

  THE HAGUE: Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said on Tuesday he is not seeking revenge for the 2005 bombing that killed his father, former...

BEIRUT: The parliamentary bloc of Lebanon's Hezbollah group said on Thursday that delay in forming a new government risked Lebanon sliding "towards tension". "(The delay)...

  BEIRUT: Lebanon faces a political impasse three months after an election produced a parliament tilted in favor of the Iran-backed Shi'ite group Hezbollah, with...

  ARSAL: Hundreds of Syrian refugees left Lebanon on Monday for their neighbouring home country, an AFP reporter said, the latest such return coordinated between...

BEIRUT: Lebanon's army says eight people have been killed and 41 others arrested in a raid in Brital, in eastern Lebanon, to arrest a...

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday the US withdrawal from world powers' 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran would have negative consequences for...

ARSAL: Nearly 400 refugees began leaving the Lebanese border town of Arsal to cross into Syria on Thursday, a rare case of returns which...

CAIRO: A Lebanese tourist who posted a video on Facebook complaining of sexual harassment and conditions in Egypt has been referred to criminal trial...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry denied French President Emmanuel Macron’s assertion that the kingdom held Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri captive last November, official...

BEIRUT: Lebanon's president formally asked caretaker premier Saad Hariri on Thursday to form a new Cabinet after the vast majority of legislators named him...

BEIRUT: Lebanese began voting on Sunday in their first general election for nine years, one that is seen as unlikely to upend the country’s...

BEIRUT: As its first parliamentary vote in nearly a decade approaches, Lebanon has been swept into campaign fever: posters on every corner, televised debates,...

PARIS: Lebanon’s prime minister called for international help on Friday to cope with the impact of war in neighboring Syria, and France responded with...

BEIRUT: An Israeli drone crashed in southern Lebanon overnight between Friday and Saturday, the Israeli military and Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV reported. “An unmanned Israeli spy...