For years, Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement had dominated the country’s Christian political scene, obtaining key ministerial seats and yielding a president of the republic, the party’s founder Michel ...

The election of Joseph Aoun, a Maronite (Eastern-rite Catholic), as the 14th president of Lebanon and a fragile ceasefire ...

"Liberation and Justice" is a hypothetical title for the ministerial statement of Lebanon's "reform and rescue" government. Nawaf Salam’s appointment as prime minister, following the election of ...

Beirut: The Israeli Army is seeking an extension to a Feb. 18 deadline to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon, Israel's public broadcaster said on Wednesday, despite Beirut’s rejection and ...

Hezbollah has told Newsweek it rejected the Israeli military's recent claims that an elite Iranian unit was illicitly using ...

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Gaza The Israeli military on Wednesday said its troops would remain in southern Lebanon after claiming that the implementation period for a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah had been extended – a move ...

Beirut: Global financial services firm JPMorgan said the recent positive developments in Lebanon raise hopes for the normalization of the political dynamics in the country, but cautioned they remain ...

Can Nawaf Salam's cabinet seize the optimism in Lebanon and steer the country toward stability, or will it slip back into turmoil, asks Ramzi Abou Ismail.

By bne Beirut Bureau Lebanon's newly appointed Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held his cabinet's first session at Baabda Palace ...

King Abdullah has said he could take in 2,000 children from Gaza. He even specified how he might be able to get them to ...

Beirut: The new Lebanese government held its first meeting on Tuesday, forming a committee tasked with drafting its ministerial statement that is expected to drop the “army, people and resistance” ...