Two explosions have been heard in Beirut as at least one person is killed by gunfire during a protest against the judge in the city’s port blast probe. At least eight people were also wounded as gunfire erupted near the protest site, according to hospital source. For the latest...

Several Arab countries have signaled they might be easing the isolation of Syria's Bashar Assad regime as a political solution to end the country's decadelong conflict seems out of sight. While Assad is still shunned by the West and Turkey, who blame him for a decade of brutal war in...

The Lebanese army has seized 28 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a fertiliser also used in making explosives, in a town near the Syrian border. Hundreds of tonnes of the substance, improperly stored in Beirut, caused a huge blast in August last year which killed more than 200 people, injured at...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man who was critically injured in the massive explosion at Beirut’s port last year has died, nearly 14 months after the blast, his family said Tuesday. Ibrahim Harb, a 35-year-old accountant, was at his downtown office near the port when the explosion occurred,...