Saad al-Hariri is expected to be named Lebanon’s prime minister on Monday, but political rifts look set to hinder agreement on a new government badly needed to rescue the country from a dire economic crisis. Hariri, a Western ally and the leading Sunni Muslim politician, is widely...

Lebanon's Interior Minister Raya El-Hassan on Sunday ordered the country's security forces to open a "rapid and transparent" enquiry, after dozens of people in Beirut were wounded in clashes the night before. Security forces in the capital used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse...

Protesters and police were injured as a result of clashes in Lebanon's capital as demonstrators continue to demand a change in government.  A large group of protesters tried to march to parliament Saturday where talks about establishing a new government are to begin Monday. But...

Over the past two months everyone in Lebanon has become an economist. Walk down the street and you will probably hear snippets of conversation about dollars and exchange rates—and vitriol aimed at bankers. The country is in the third month of a political and economic crisis caused by a drop...