Lebanese security forces have arrested nine people, most of them Syrian nationals, over their alleged involvement in last week’s twin bombings in Beirut that killed at least 44 people, the interior minister said. “Until now the detained include seven Syrians and two Lebanese – one of them a [would-be] suicide[…]
At least 41 people were killed and nearly 200 injured in two suicide bombs targeting a Hezbollah stronghold in the south of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, according to local news reports. Lebanese Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said initial reports indicated that two suicide bombers blew themselves up seven minutes[…]
Lebanese security forces arrested 40 Palestinians on Wednesday as they tried to leave by boat from the northern city of Tripoli for a journey toward Europe, the National News Agency said. The group, which included men and women, was aiming to reach Germany and had come from the large, long-established[…]
OPINION by John Bell – Another set of political demonstrations has taken off in the Arab world. This time it is in Lebanon, where a summer of rubbish in the streets has triggered street riots reminiscent of Tahrir Square. No one knows what all this portends, some hope and dream[…]
At least three people have been killed in clashes between rival armed groups in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, near the southern port city of Sidon. Fighting between the Jund al-Sham group and members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement on Monday began in the northern part of Ain[…]
A suicide bombing struck a coffee shop Saturday night in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 30, security officials and the Red Cross said. Syria’s al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front claimed responsibility on Twitter for the blast in Tripoli’s predominantly Alawite neighborhood of[…]
Lebanon has begun limiting the flow of Syrians entering the country as it struggles to cope with a flood of asylum seekers fleeing the civil war next door. The unprecedented restrictions that went into effect Monday establish new categories of entry visas for Syrians and sharply limit the period of[…]
Lebanese authorities detained a woman and young boy believed to be the wife and son of the reclusive Islamic State group leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and were questioning the woman and conducting DNA tests on the child, senior Lebanese officials said Tuesday. If their identities are confirmed, Lebanon may use the pair[…]
The Lebanese army has detained a wife and a son of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, as they crossed from Syria in recent days, security officials have said. The military said that the wife was a Syian citizen and[…]
Lebanon has been without a president, who is also the commander-in-chief, since May because of disagreements between lawmakers. The 15-member council “expressed concern at the prolonged vacancy in the office of the presidency with a view to preserving the stability and the unity of Lebanon,” said Australian Ambassador Gary Quinlan,[…]
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