Tag: Lebanon

Nigerian authorities intercepted nearly half a million amphetamine pills hidden in machinery coming into a Lagos port, an official said on Thursday. The 451 807...

Two rockets launched from Lebanon on Wednesday struck Israel, which responded with artillery fire amid heightened regional tensions over an alleged Iranian attack on...

A man was killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli on Thursday in clashes between security forces and protesters angry over a strict coronavirus...

Israel and Lebanon resumed US-mediated talks on Wednesday over their disputed Mediterranean Sea border, that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gas-rich...

Lebanon and Israel, formally still at war after decades of conflict, launch talks on Wednesday to address a long-running dispute over their maritime border...

Lebanese police seized 25 tonnes of hashish set to be smuggled to an African state in the country’s biggest drug bust, Lebanese security forces...

Lebanon formed a new government on Tuesday, the presidency announced after Shi’ite Hezbollah and its allies clinched a deal on a cabinet that must...

Cat-and-mouse clashes between Lebanon’s security forces and protesters wounded scores on a night of violence that rocked central Beirut. Riot police fired tear gas and...

An upsurge of violence in Lebanon’s protests against the ruling elite, with police meting out beatings and protesters hurling stones, has alarmed rights groups...

Protests in Lebanon turned violent for a second night on Wednesday with dozens injured after security forces used batons and tear gas to break...

Clashes between supporters of Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Saad al-Hariri, and Shi’ite groups Hezbollah and Amal erupted into gunfire in Beirut, state news agency...

A new wave of protests paralysed Lebanon after President Michel Aoun enraged demonstrators urging them to end a revolt against corruption and cronyism in...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement warned a power vacuum could tip the country into civil war, suggesting adversaries including the US and Israel were seeking to...

Lebanon’s cabinet is expected to approve reforms including halving ministers’ wages in a bid to ease an economic crisis and defuse protests against the...

Hezbollah said it downed an Israeli drone in southern Lebanon in another flare-up raising tensions between the Iran-backed group and Israel. The drone is...

Lebanon's intelligence service may have turned the smartphones of thousands of targeted individuals into cyber-spying machines in one of the first known...

The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeastern border with Syria, as the Lebanese...

Egypt on Monday arrested and deported popular talk show host Liliane Daoud, security and airport sources said, hours after the Lebanese journalist...

Saudi Arabia said on Friday it suspended a $3 billion (£2.1 billion) aid package for the Lebanese army in what a official...

Lebanon's Hezbollah says the Middle East is at risk of partition and sees no end to the war in Syria, where it...

Lebanon's Hezbollah and Syria's army made big advances against insurgents in mountains north of Damascus on Wednesday, Hezbollah and Syrian state media...

A suicide bomb attack on a cafe in the Lebanese city of Tripoli killed at least seven people on Saturday, the latest...

Islamist militants who attacked parts of Lebanon this year could have drawn it into civil war, army chief General Jean Kahwaji said...

So many bullet holes cover the apartment blocks and shops in the Bab al-Tabbeneh district of northern Lebanon's main city Tripoli that...

Guns fell silent in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Monday after two days of deadly battles between the army and...

Lebanese soldiers battled Islamist gunmen across northern Lebanon for a third day on Sunday in the worst fighting linked to the civil...

The United States has begun delivering nearly $20 million of arms including assault rifles, anti-tank missiles and mortars to bolster Lebanon's army...

Militant Islamists have mostly withdrawn from a Lebanese border town they seized at the weekend, taking with them captive Lebanese soldiers, militant...

The Lebanese army fought Islamist militants near the Syrian border on Saturday, killing 11 militants, a security official said, in a move...

The success of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has emboldened like-minded militants in Lebanon who believe they can emulate it,...

A suicide bomber blew up his car in Beirut on Monday night near an army checkpoint, killing a security officer and wounding...

For two weeks now, the rifles have been silent along Syria Street in Lebanon's Tripoli, an area shot up so often that...

A suicide bomber killed himself and three soldiers when he detonated a car bomb at a Lebanese army checkpoint in the border...

The death toll from three days of fighting between members of two Muslim sects in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli rose...

Shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles have been trafficked out of Libya to Chad, Mali, Tunisia, Lebanon and likely Central African Republic, with attempts made...

Israel fears guerrillas in Lebanon and Gaza would deploy exploding drones against the Jewish state in a future war as well as...

France is preparing to seal a multi-billion-dollar plan to help modernize Lebanon's armed forces as part of international efforts to stabilize a...

The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed a twin bomb attack in Beirut on Wednesday, saying such attacks would continue until Hezbollah...

Faced with recent setbacks in Iraq and Syria, al Qaeda is slowly but firmly gaining influence in Lebanon, helped by the country's...

A suicide bomber killed four people on Tuesday in a residential district of southern Beirut known for its support of the powerful...

A Lebanese soldier was killed on Thursday evening during clashes with Sunni Muslim fighters in the coastal city of Tripoli after the...

Clashes resumed on Tuesday between Lebanese militias who back opposing sides of Syria's war and 21 fighters were arrested by the army...

Two suicide bombings rocked Iran's embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including an Iranian cultural attaché and...

Two people died in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Monday, in fighting between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...

Four people have been killed in fighting in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli between Sunni Muslim gunmen who oppose Bashar al-Assad and...

Several rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel today, the first since 2009, prompting Israel to return fire, military officials said. Two buildings...

The Security Council yesterday extended the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon until 31 August 2012. Established in 1978,...

Iranian lawmakers protesting at Israel's blockade of Gaza, plan to travel on an aid ship that plans to leave from Lebanon, an...

Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the Shi'ite guerrilla group would attack all military, civilian and commercial ships heading towards Israel's...

Israeli is deploying an interceptor system it has developed at a cost of US$210 million to shoot down the short-range rockets and...