Lebanese judge Nawaf Salam was elected on February 6 as the president of the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a three-year term, becoming the second Arab judge to preside over the highest human rights court in the world after Alge...

In a ramshackle Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Hayat Shehadeh wrings her hands as she watches the Israel-Hamas war. Her daughter is in Gaza, and she has not spoken to her for a week."I can't sleep. I get up at 3:00 am... I go to watch the telev...

Nearly 29,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon amid deadly exchanges between Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli army, a United Nations agency said Friday.A total of 28,965 people have been displaced, mainly in the country's south, th...

In a move seen as painkiller to ease Muslims’ anger over the repeated incidents of burning copies of the Noble Quran, Denmark is set to introduce a bill criminalizing this act before the Folketing (the Danish parliament), raising questions as to whet...

While enjoying the sunlight on a beach in Sidon (aka Saida in Arabic) as she used to do for five years, a Lebanese woman was assaulted for wearing a bikini on the beach, an incident that stirred the anger of dozens of Lebanese, especially women.The i...

A crushing economic crisis in Lebanon has impelled members of the security forces to take on side hustles to get by, raising concerns about security in the eastern Mediterranean country.Soldiers in Lebanon have seen their salaries diminish to around...

The Lebanese authorities have started toforcedly deport Syrian refugees back to their homes amid a crackdown that pushed one Syrian man to commit suicide to escape deportation.The threat of deportation of the Syrian refugees was a Lebanese card of pr...

Israel launched air strikes before dawn on Friday in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, saying it was targeting Palestinian group Hamas in retaliation for several dozen rockets fired at Israel from both territories.The strikes were launched around 4 am (010...

By AFPThe United Nations on Wednesday inscribed an ancient city and its dam in war-torn Yemen and a futurist park in cash-strapped Lebanon on its world heritage list.The UN cultural agency listed both as world heritage sites in danger, the first beca...

By AFPFamilies of victims killed in the 2020 Beirut explosion rallied Thursday to support the judge investigating the disaster, after he was charged by Lebanon's top prosecutor in the highly politically case.Security was tight at the palace of justic...

Riad Salameh, Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon (BDL), along with 18 other bank and financial officials and his brother Raja, are to come under investigation in the next month over accusations of money laundering and embezzlement, European inve...