France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the nation attempts to recover from the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.

New developments following the election of Western-backed Joseph Aoun as president perhaps offer hope for generating political momentum and restoring the international community's confidence in Lebanon.

If the pager explosions had not occurred and Israel had not escalated its war against Lebanon last September, the investigation into the Beirut Port explosion would have likely been nearing its conclusion by now.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, visited Beirut today as part of his trip to Syria and Lebanon from January 14 to 16, 2025. Camera: WAEL HAMZEH. [Restrictions: Spain,

Geopolitical shifts in the troubled Middle East, highlighted by the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran's dwindling influence, present a rare opportunity for Lebanon to regain control of its own fate.

Germany's Lufthansa Group is set to resume flights to and from Tel Aviv in Israel from Feb. 1 and Wizz Air restarted its London to Tel Aviv route on Thursday, the companies said following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares landed in Beirut on Wednesday. Albares plans to hold high-level political meetings in the Lebanese capital to address the situation in the country, after the parliamentary process resumed on January 9 with the election of the new president of this country,

Lebanese judge Tarek Bitar resumed his investigation into the deadly 2020 Beirut port blast on Thursday, charging 10 people including security, customs and military personnel, a judicial official said.

This observational documentary tracks four families living in poverty in the capital of Lebanon.

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate has vowed to rebuild the country following years of economic meltdown and a 14-month war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group.

A little more than forty years ago, in 1982, US Marines began a peacekeeping mission as part of a multinational force (MNF) in war torn Lebanon. The Marines were to maintain a visible “presence” in the capital of Beirut,