Tensions persist as Israel accuses Lebanon of slow troop deployment, while Beirut cites Israeli ceasefire violations, including recent airstrikes in Sidon. US deputy special envoy for Middle East ...

For Hezbollah, these are trying times. After decades of being Lebanon’s predominant political and military organization, the group is reeling. During a yearlong war with Israel, it lost much of its ...

Turkish Ambassador to Lebanon Murat Lutem, visiting the coastal city for the first time, said: “The Sidon Turkish Trauma and Rehabilitation Hospital, opened to give aid in the humanitarian ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church ... live in Lebanon. MARONITE. The Maronite rite traces its origins to the work of St. Maron ...

Aoun was elected president on Jan. 9, ending more than two years of a presidential vacuum in Lebanon due to political disagreements. Days after his election, Aoun invited Salam, a judge with the ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new prime minister on Saturday formed the country’s first full-fledged government since 2022. President Joseph Aoun announced in a statement that he had accepted the ...

Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun has summoned Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him as the country’s prime minister after he won the ...

and shortly after the election of Joseph Aoun as president of Lebanon. Aoun is a member of the Catholic Maronite Church, whose members traditionally hold the presidency in the country. The country ...

France’s Emmanuel Macron is the first foreign head of state to visit Beirut since Joseph Aoun was elected as Lebanon’s president. French President Emmanuel Macron, left, meets his Lebanese ...

The selection of Mr. Salam was seen as a blow to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group and political party that has acted as the real power in Lebanon for decades. By Christina Goldbaum Reporting ...