The ceasefire, brokered with US support, required Israel to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon within 60 days of ...

Lebanon’s parliament elected General Joseph Aoun as president on January 9, 2025, ending a two-year stalemate. Parliament had failed to elect a president 12 times following the end of the previous ...

Lebanon, one of the most troubled countries in the Middle East, is once again at a critical crossroads. Several recent developments—a new leadership, a cessation of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict ...

Lebanon’s international backers ... a step that has precedents but that led to raucous debate in the Parliament. Senior civil servants are required to resign two years before standing for ...

The unusually direct U.S. intervention in Lebanon's sectarian politics appears aimed at capitalizing on shifts in the power balance in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, with Iran-backed Hezbollah ...

As Lebanon will move to fill the presidential vacancy left unoccupied since 2022 on Thursday, the Hezbollah-endorsed candidate has dropped out with the odds favoring Joseph Aoun, leader of the ...

Lebanon's new prime minister vowed on Tuesday to rebuild his nation after the destruction caused by the war with Israel. Nawaf Salam was nominated for prime minister after a meeting with newly ...

Lebanon’s parliament is to vote for the country’s next president after a two-year void. A man waves a Lebanese flag as he stands amidst the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes ...

COMMENTARY: In the Western Hemisphere, the issue of migration seems to become rather more muted or nuanced once the United ...

Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun has summoned Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him as the country’s prime minister after he won the ...

Ekhtiar, who interviewed Israel's Arabic-language military spokesman last year as the Gaza war raged, has divided Lebanese political opinion.