At least two people were killed in an Israeli strike near the Christian-majority town of Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Saturday, in the first attack on the area by Israeli forces. The Israeli military was looking into the report of the strike in Jounieh, a...

Hamas vowed on Friday it would not release the hostages it seized during its October 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader, Yahya Sinwar. “We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,” Qatar-based Hamas official...

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister on Friday made a rare rebuke to Iran and said Tehran’s envoy should be summoned over reported comments by a top Iranian official that it would be ready to help “negotiate” to implement a UN resolution on Lebanon. Lebanese PM Najib Mikati said in a...

Two people were killed and 15 others injured Thursday in Israeli airstrikes targeting two towns in the Baalbek-Hermel province, eastern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.  “An Israeli airstrike on the town of Yammoune in Baalbek-Hermel resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries...