At least five people were killed and five others injured in a wave of Israeli airstrikes in eastern Lebanon on Monday, in the latest violation of a ceasefire deal in place since November 2024, the Health Ministry said. Lebanese media said that Israeli warplanes launched at least eight...

The Lebanese government is set to discuss on Friday an army plan to disarm Hezbollah, which the Iran-backed group opposes, accusing the cabinet of playing into the hands of Israel and the United States. In August, under heavy US pressure and fearing Israel would intensify its strikes,...

More than 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland from neighboring Lebanon this year following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, a United Nations official told AFP. The Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011 with Assad’s brutal repression of anti-government...

Lebanon and Syria will form two committees to decide the fate of the nearly 2,000 Syrian prisoners held in Lebanese jails, locate Lebanese nationals missing in Syria for years and settle the shared unmarked border, judicial and security officials said. Monday’s announcement came as a...