Tag: Lebanon

  Lebanese forces have detained a wife and son of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi near the Syrian border, security and military sources...

NABATIYEH, Lebanon — Millions of Shiite Muslims from Lebanon to India commemorated on Tuesday the slaying of a revered figure, Imam Hussein, by weeping...

Lebanese police have arrested a man who staged a sick prank by filming himself threatening to behead three Syrian refugee children left in his...

BEIRUT- Lebanese officials say that Syrian military aircraft have carried out a series of airstrikes at a Lebanese border town. Deputy mayor Ahmad Fliti says...

BEIRUT- A new Lebanese government was announced on Saturday following a 10-month political impasse during which spillover violence from neighboring Syria worsened internal instability. "A government...

An explosion hit Hezbollah's southern Beirut fortress on Tuesday, the Lebanese Shiite movement's television channel Al-Manar said. The blast took place on a busy commercial...

At least three people were killed and several others were injured when a car bomb exploded near a local government building in the Lebanese...

A leader of an Al Qaeda-linked group died in custody on Saturday in Lebanon, according to a  Lebanese army general. The general says the detainee, Majid...

Rockets launched from south Lebanon struck northern Israel on Sunday and Israel responded with artillery shells across a border that has been largely quiet...

Two rocket strikes from south Lebanon in northern Israel resulted in the Israeli military firing back 20 shells on Sunday, according to reports by...

The Syrian army has regained control of the strategic city of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon, Syrian rebels and state television have said. "Our heroic armed forces...

At least one member of Lebanon's Hezbollah group has been killed overnight in clashes with Syrian rebels in Lebanon's eastern border region. Lebanese security sources reported...

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to extend its mandate and delay elections scheduled for next month after failing to adopt a new electoral law at...

Sixteen rockets fired from Syria have struck the eastern region of Baalbek, Lebanese security officials said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said...

Two rockets have hit a district in the southern part of Lebanon's capital, wounding at least five people. Initial reports said one of the rockets landed in...

Gunmen loyal to opposite sides in neighbouring Syria’s civil war battled on Wednesday in the streets of a northern Lebanese city where two days...

International charity Save the Children has warned 200,000 Syrian refugee children are at serious risk from freezing temperatures, as winter sets in the Middle...