The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

Victims of Lebanon's deadly 2020 port blast have filed a quarter-billion-dollar lawsuit against a US firm for its suspected links to the tragedy, a Swiss foundation assisting the plaintiffs said Wednesday. The nine plaintiffs are all US citizens and include Sarah Copland, the mother of two-year-old Isaac Copland, who was…

The head of powerful armed group Hezbollah said on Wednesday that if Lebanon was not allowed to extract oil and gas from maritime fields bordering Israeli fields, "no one will be".

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday warned against “manipulating” the presidential elections due before the end of October. He also said during his sermon that "not facilitating the formation of a new government with full constitutional powers" is an "act of sabotage." "Leaving the country without a government at the…

Saudi political dissident Manea al-Yami was killed in Lebanon, the Saudi opposition National Assembly Party (NAAS) and a Lebanese security source said on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia’s acting Minister of Media, Dr. Majid Al-Qasabi received on Sunday Adam Mohammed, a British citizen of Iraqi decent, who came to the Kingdom on foot from the United Kingdom to perform the Hajj, reported the Saudi Press Agency. Meeting in Mina, Mohammed briefed the minister on his ten-month…

Lebanese may be sympathetic to public sector workers striking over wages, but frustration at inconvenience remains.

Lebanon's international music festivals kicked off at the weekend with a performance in the Roman ruins of Baalbek, the first performance there since the country's economic crisis. Under the title of "Baalbek Nights Return," conductor Lubnan Baalbaki – whose first name means "Lebanon" and whose last name means "from Baalbek"…

Hezbollah continued to escalate its rhetoric in Lebanon's maritime border demarcation negotiations with Israel. The Iran-backed party again justified its firing of drones towards Israel’s offshore Karish gas field earlier this month. Hezbollah central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq justified the attack, saying the party helped restore momentum to the…

Lebanon expects to receive one million tourists this summer, with 600,000 visitors already arriving in the country, caretaker Tourism Minister Walid Nassar said. The latest data showed a 77 percent increase in travelers through Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut since the beginning of the year. Nassar expressed his "optimism…