Qatar’s offer to build 3 power plants to ease Lebanon’s electricity crisis is blocked
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s political class, fuel companies and private electricity providers blocked an...
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A Libyan delegation reopens talks in Lebanon on a missing cleric and on Gadhafi’s detained son
BEIRUT (AP) — A Libyan delegation visited Beirut this week to reopen talks with Lebanese officials o...
An airstrike on southern Syria, likely carried out by Jordan’s air force, kills 9
BEIRUT (AP) — An airstrike on southern Syria early Thursday killed at least nine people and was prob...
Lebanon’s top court suspends arrest warrant for former cabinet minister in Beirut port blast case
BEIRUT (AP) — A judge at Lebanon’s highest court suspended an arrest warrant against a former cabine...
Slain Hezbollah commander fought in some of the group’s biggest battles, had close ties to leaders
BEIRUT (AP) — The elite Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike Monday in souther...
Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘initial response’ to killing of top leader from allied Hamas
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday, wa...
Hezbollah leader says his group must retaliate for suspected Israeli strike in Beirut
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah said Friday that his group must retaliate...
France urges Lebanese leaders to work on bringing calm along the border with Israel
BEIRUT (AP) — France’s foreign minister urged Lebanese leaders on Monday to work on reducing tension...
US national security adviser says a negotiated outcome is the best way to end Lebanon-Israel tension
BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday that he has discussed with Is...
Rights groups say Israeli strikes on journalists in Lebanon were likely deliberate
BEIRUT (AP) — Two Israeli strikes that killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalis...
Hezbollah and Israeli troops exchange fire along the border as 2 people are killed in Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group attacked several Israeli army posts along the two c...
Hezbollah fires rockets at north Israel after an airstrike kills 5 of the group’s senior fighters
BEIRUT (AP) — The militant Hezbollah group fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern ...
Shadowy Hamas leader in Gaza is at top of Israel’s hit list after last month’s deadly attack
The mastermind of the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the worst Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed ...
Hezbollah says it is introducing new weapons in ongoing battles with Israeli troops
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Saturday his fighters have intro...
40 years after Beirut’s deadly Marines bombing, US troops again deploying east of the Mediterranean
BEIRUT (AP) — Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East,...
Hezbollah official says his group already ‘is in the heart’ of Israel-Hamas war
BEIRUT (AP) — A top official with Hezbollah vowed that Israel will pay a high price whenever it star...
Iran’s foreign minister warns Israel from Beirut it could suffer ‘a huge earthquake’
BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warn...
In Beirut, Iran’s foreign minister warns war could spread if Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues
BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister warned Friday that if Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip don’t...
Hamas official says Iran and Hezbollah had no role in Israel incursion but they’ll help if needed
BEIRUT (AP) — A senior Hamas official on Monday said only a small number of top commanders inside Ga...
The fall of an enclave in Azerbaijan stuns the Armenian diaspora, extinguishing a dream
BEIRUT (AP) — The swift fall of the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani tro...
Lebanese military court sentences an Islamic State group official to 160 years in prison
BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese military court has sentenced an official with the extremist Islamic State g...
Lebanese security forces detain man suspected of shooting outside US embassy
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces have detained a man suspected of being behind last week’s sho...
Hearings in $1 billion lawsuit filed by auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn against Nissan starts in Beirut
BEIRUT (AP) — Hearings in the $1 billion lawsuit filed by auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn against Nissan an...
Dozens of Syrians are among the missing in catastrophic floods in Libya, a war monitor says
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian dentist, a confectioner who made mouthwatering Arabic sweets, a carpenter. Sy...
IMF warns Lebanon that the country is still facing enormous challenges, years after a meltdown began
BEIRUT (AP) — Four years after Lebanon’s historic meltdown began, the small nation is still facing “...
Palestinian man who fled Lebanon seeking safety in Libya was killed with his family by floods
BEIRUT (AP) — A At the height of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war in the late 1980s, Saleh Ali Sariyeh de...
Clashes resume in largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, killing 3 and wounding 10
BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes resumed early Saturday at the largest refugee camp in Lebanon between Palestin...
Two men questioned in Lebanon at Turkey’s request over 2019 escape of former Nissan tycoon Ghosn
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese judicial authorities have questioned two people at the request of Turkey on s...
Fighting between rival US-backed groups in Syria could undermine war against the Islamic State group
BEIRUT (AP) — The weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria, where hundre...
On 3rd anniversary, Beirut port blast probe blocked by intrigue and even the death toll is disputed
BEIRUT (AP) — Three years after Beirut’s massive port blast, attempts to prosecute those responsible...