The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

Michelle Peters, 47, of Lebanon has been charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action

U.S., European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants from spiraling into a wider Middle East war that the world has feared for months

Displaced Palestinian families in southern Gaza have fled intensifying Israeli gunfire in the north Rafah to seek shelter elsewhere

The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp has entered the eastern Mediterranean Sea as the U.S. positions warships to try to keep fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon from escalating into a wider war in the Middle East

Fighting continues in central and southern Gaza, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to encounter resistance from units of Hamas fighters, despite a recent assessment by the Israeli government that the “intense phase” of the ground offensive is drawing to a close. The IDF will now switch to conducting…

Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant says the country does not want to go to war with the militant group – but will do so if pushed

Gallant says Israel can inflict ‘massive damage’ as UN humanitarian chief says war would be ‘potentially apocalyptic’.

Hezbollah has warned of a ripple effect across the Mediterranean Sea if Israel widens its conflict against Lebanon.

Israel said it does not want war in Lebanon but could send its neighbour "back to the Stone Age", as the UN's humanitarian chief warned such a conflict would be "potentially apocalyptic".