Lebanon has approved a new work contract allowing foreign domestic workers to resign and keep hold of their own passport, but activists say the exploitative "kafala" system remains in place. The economic crisis-hit Mediterranean country is home to around 250,000 migrants, mostly women from...

Hundreds of Lebanese marched Saturday on the presidential palace to denounce a lack of progress in a probe by authorities into a monster blast that ravaged swathes of the capital 40 days ago. Some marchers carried black versions of the Lebanese flag in a sign of mourning for the more...

Bekaa (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee child has been killed by lightning in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley on Thursday evening, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Anwar Alaiwi, 6-year-old, was struck by lightning while he was playing with two more children inside the refugee camp in Bar Elias...

Lebanese firefighters and army helicopters on Friday put out the remains of a huge fire at Beirut’s port that had flared up a day earlier, barely a month after a massive blast devastated the port and the surrounding area. Thursday’s fire, which officials said was sparked by welding...