Lebanon

Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said yesterday that measures have been taken to maintain security in Lebanon after clashes that broke out in the Ain Al-Hilweh refugee camp last...

In a thought-provoking op-ed published on Friday by Saudi Arabian daily newspaper Okaz, entitled "Friday is a working day," writer Mona Al-Otaibi questions whether the Kingdom's traditional Friday-Saturday weekend...

Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro commemorated the people who lost their lives in the deadly Beirut port explosion on Friday, Aug. 4

Saudi Arabia called on its citizens to quickly leave Lebanese territory and to avoid approaching areas where there have been armed clashes, the Saudi embassy in Lebanon said in...

Thousands of mourners and protesters marched in the Lebanese capital on Friday to remember those killed in a huge port blast three years ago, as religious leaders and rights groups decried the lack of...

Lebanon, on Friday, mourned those killed in the port blast that devastated Beirut three years ago, as religious leaders and rights groups decried the lack of accountability among political...

The head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has made a series of contacts with senior Lebanese officials and discussed the latest developments in the Ain Al-Hilweh refugee camp, Quds...

Banks from four Arab countries are interested in investing in Lebanon's struggling banking sector, according to an Associated Press report. Lebanon is facing the worst economic crisis in its short and...

The commander of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), and a member of the movement's Lebanon Command, Major General Munir Al-Maqdah, yesterday...

The annual commemoration of the Beirut blast has now become a symbol of something else: an outpouring of grief and emotion, accompanied by a staggering lack of action in...

Archbishop Atallah Hanna, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, has slammed events in the Ain Al-Hilweh camp in Lebanon as "shameful." "The use of weapons in the camps between...

Lebanon, on Thursday, handed over to Italy a suspected Italian drug dealer arrested weeks ago near the capital, Beirut, the Italian police said, Anadolu Agency reports. Sought with an...

No one has been found guilty in connection with a port explosion in Lebanon in 2020, Amnesty International said Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. "The Lebanese authorities have had three...

For nearly three years now, 10 portraits on the outer wall of a Beirut fire station have honoured its fire-fighters killed in the explosion at the city's port, Reuters...

Lebanon, on Friday, marks the third anniversary of the Beirut port explosion which killed at least 220 people, wounded thousands and damaged swathes of the city. Despite the devastation,...

The events of Ain Al-Hilweh began with Muhammad Zubaidat, nicknamed Al-Somali, who is affiliated with the Fatah movement and the Palestinian National Security, opening fire in the market last...

The Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement has called those who desecrate the Holy Quran to be punished. Hassan Nasrallah described the position taken by Muslim countries in defending the...

Israel yesterday submitted an official complaint against Lebanon at the United Nations Security Council, demanding the Lebanese government and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) take immediate...

A Lebanese relief NGO said on Tuesday that it had suspended its services in the Ain Al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the city of Sidon. Al Shifaa for Medical...

The head of Hezbollah yesterday called for a halt to days of deadly clashes that have raged between rival factions in the Palestinian camp of Ain Al-Hilweh in southern...

Despite a cease-fire agreement, violent clashes resumed in Ain Al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. The largest of 12 Palestinian refugee camps in...

On the brink of socio-economic collapse, Lebanon finds itself caught in a relentless and unforgiving cycle that threatens its very foundation. The heart of this vexing challenge lies in...

Riad Salameh faces charges of money laundering and fraud in Lebanon and six European countries including Switzerland and France.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday received a phone from the head of the Lebanese Kataeb Party, Samy Gemayel, during which they discussed the violent events that took place in...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has been exerting a lot of effort in order to "stabilise" the ceasefire in Palestinian Ain Al-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon. "Meetings with all...

A commander from the Palestinian Fatah movement, Abu Ashraf al-Armoushi, was killed in an ambush along with a number of his aides in Al-Basateen neighbourhood in the Palestinian Ain...

The death toll from clashes between two groups in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp rose to nine on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports. The largest of 12 Palestinian refugee camps...

The Lebanese army today closed all entrances to the Ain Al-Hilweh camp for Palestinian refugees, after renewed clashes inside it. The closure of the entrances to the camp, which...

The Lebanese Central Bank's first vice governor Wassim Mansouri has urged the government to undertake long-delayed reforms as he confirmed that he will take over as its acting head...

In July 1949, upon the complete destruction of Palestine and the expulsion of its people, David Ben Gurion addressed his officers, who were not sure that the emptiness of...

Lebanon's cabinet, on Thursday, failed to meet to choose a successor to long-time Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, meaning the bank could be leaderless from Monday as the country...

Lebanese officials were in a last-minute scramble on Wednesday to avoid leaving the crisis-hit country's Central Bank without a leader when Governor, Riad Salameh's 30-year tenure ends next week,...