Lebanon's foreign minister summoned the German ambassador Tuesday to explain Berlin's decision last week to ban the Shi'ite Hezbollah movement on its soil. Germany also classified the Iranian-backed movement as terrorist, a step which Hezbollah's foe Israel has long urged along with the...

Children ran up and down the alleyway of the Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley as two women squatted down next to each other with a plate of courgettes they were preparing for that night's dinner.  The women were not wearing gloves or face masks while they worked, undaunted...

Lebanon is set to extend its lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus by two weeks until May 24 with the prime minister warning on Tuesday that a failure to comply with a gradual easing of restrictions risked a second wave of infections. Lebanon has recorded 740 cases of the novel...

Human rights groups have expressed outrage after adding jailed human rights activist and Palestine campaigner Ramy Shaath to its terrorism list. Shaath, who co-founded and co-ordinates Egypt's wing of the peaceful Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli human...