The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

Former Likud MK Danny Danon accused on Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid of offering major concessions in the agreement between Lebanon and Israel to demarcate the maritime borders. “These concessions amount to a maximum surrender to Hezbollah,” the Israeli former deputy said. His comments came amid statements in Tel…

The United States stressed on Tuesday that it will “continue to work with Lebanon for peace and prosperity.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “We discussed the need for a timely…

Hezbollah leader calls the Israeli plan to extract gas at the disputed maritime border a ‘red line’.

Lebanon's caretaker economy minister says the crisis-hit country hopes to adopt key but long-delayed reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund for an economic bailout before the end of next month if there is “political will.”

Cyprus authorities late on Monday and early on Tuesday rescued hundreds of migrants who had left Lebanon and were stranded at sea in two separate incidents, officials said.

Cyprus has assisted in rescue of a small wooden boat crammed with more than 300 migrants that was floating adrift 203 kilometers (126 miles) west of the island nation, a Cypriot official said Tuesday. Cyprus Joint Rescue Coordination Center Commander Andreas Charalambides told the Associated Press that the captain of…

In a war-scarred Beirut heritage house turned museum, archives of Lebanon's troubled past fuse with artistic depictions of its grim present to portray a country seemingly in perpetual turmoil. Newspaper clippings, film negatives and diary entries from the years before Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war tell a story of government corruption,…

The Karish maritime reservoir, part of which is claimed by Lebanon, is estimated to hold 2-3tn cubic feet of natural gas

Israel’s prime minister has vowed to begin production at a contested Mediterranean natural gas field “as soon as it is possible.”