Tag: Lebanon

The army said on Monday it was determined to restore order in Lebanon, roiled by growing political tensions linked to Syria after a top...

Iran on Saturday condemned a car bombing in Beirut that killed eight people, including a top Lebanese security official, blaming it on arch foe...

The UN Security Council has expressed "grave concern" about cross-border attacks on Lebanon from Syria. The 15-nation council issued a statement late Wednesday calling for...

Many a faultline pass through this troubled land With neighbouring Syria imploding, tensions with Iran mounting, and Israel ever threatening, Lebanon appears to be on...

Clashes erupted between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in neighbouring Lebanon’s northern port city of Tripoli on Saturday, killing nine people...

Lebanese authorities are weighing up what action to take after a group of newly recruited policewomen showed up for training wearing the hijab, a...

More than 1,500 Syrians, mainly women and children, have crossed into Lebanon in recent days, fleeing the violence in the central flashpoint province of...

An explosion tore through a restaurant in the southern Lebanese town of Tyre at dawn Wednesday, just a few metres from a hotel that...

The rise of political consciousness Nine months into the “Arab Spring,” we surveyed public opinion in seven Arab countries and Iran, asking over 6,000 respondents...

The Lebanese army on Monday said it had uncovered four Katyusha rockets in an olive grove near the volatile border with Israel. The rockets, each...

The United States on Monday condemned the Syrian army's incursions into neighboring Lebanon and suggested that dissidents of the Damascus regime had either been...

Syrian troops backed by tanks and personnel carriers rumbled Monday into the village of Hit bordering Lebanon and heavy gunfire could be heard, a...

The U.N.-backed Lebanon tribunal released on Friday the names, photographs and details of four men wanted for the assassination of statesman Rafik al-Hariri in...

Lebanon's government won parliament's vote of confidence on Thursday, as the prime minister vowed that his cabinet would cooperate with a UN-backed court charging...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah-dominated government will deal “responsibly and realistically” with a UN indictment issued Thursday in the 2005 murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, Prime Minister...

Soldiers deployed in force in Lebanon’s main northern city Tripoli Saturday after seven people were killed in clashes between Alawites and Sunnis over a...

bomb blew up a UN jeep near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on Friday, wounding six Italian UN peacekeepers, the Italian...