The Latest Breaking News from Beirut

Beirut (AFP) - Troops from the US-led anti-jihadist coalition landed in northwest Syria Thursday in search of wanted militants, resulting in clashes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Beirut (AFP) - Turkey said Wednesday it launched deadly strikes against Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria, where Kurd forces have been left reeling from the largest Islamic State group attack in nearly three years.

A year after the murder of Lebanese intellectual and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim, his family is still searching for accountability in a country where crimes often go unpunished. "We really need justice for Lokman," his widow Monika Borgmann told AFP from their home in the southern suburbs of the capital…

Beirut (AFP) - A year after the murder of Lebanese intellectual and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim, his family is still searching for accountability in a country where crimes often go unpunished.

Beirut (AFP) - The music is often hushed and the atmosphere studious -- for the patrons filling Beirut's cafes these days, the most important things are good lighting and stable wi-fi.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara Al-Rai criticized on Sunday the Lebanese authorities’ position on Hezbollah’s weapons, stressing that officials “have no right to justify the plurality of arms.” In response, Grand Jaafari Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan emphasized that the Shiite sect’s “choice begins and ends with the resistance,” meaning Hezbollah. Beirut's response…

Kuwait Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah announced on Sunday that his country had received the Lebanese response to the Gulf initiative aimed at mending Beirut's ties with the Gulf. The minister had traveled to Beirut a week earlier to deliver the 12-point proposal that covers confidence-building measures to…

Kuwait City (AFP) - Kuwait said Sunday that a Lebanese response to a list of suggested measures to ease a diplomatic rift with Gulf Arab countries is currently under review.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday he saw no reason for a delay to parliamentary elections in May after three-times former prime minister Saad al-Hariri announced he was boycotting the vote and stepping away from politics.