Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to treat its smaller neighbor as a sovereign nation.

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has raised Lebanon’s long-term local currency credit rating to CCC from CC, maintaining a “stable” outlook. However, the agency left the country’s foreign currency rating at Selective Default (SD),

How refugee children in one of the most strife-torn parts of the world are eagerly embracing an unfamiliar sport

Lebanon’s president has told a top Iranian security official that Beirut rejects foreign intervention and wants stability for its people. Ali Larijani, Iran’s Supreme National Security

The visit by Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s top security body, came as the Lebanese government moves to disarm Hezbollah, the militant group that has long been Tehran’s most powerful regional ally.

People are buying water by the truckload in Beirut as the state supply faces its worst shortages in years, with the leaky public sector struggling after record-low rainfall and local wells running dry.

Five years after the Beirut port explosion, families of victims are still seeking justice. The blast, caused by detonated ammonium nitrate, killed at least 218 people and devastated the city.

No group in Lebanon is permitted to bear arms or rely on foreign backing, President Joseph Aoun told a senior Iranian official on Wednesday, days after the cabinet approved the objectives of a U.S.-backed roadmap to disarm the Iran-aligned Hezbollah group.

Thursday marks two years since a deadly blast ripped through Beirut’s port. Now, the port’s hulking wheat silos – which withstood the effects of the explosion despite their proximity ...

Hizbullah’s grip on the state has never looked weaker. Many of its leaders are dead. Its armoury is depleted. It has lost control of Beirut airport. Its land corridor to Iran via Syria and Iraq has been cut off. And its supporters are angry at its failure to rebuild what Israel destroyed last year.