Beirut, Lebanon News

Lebanese security officials say three people have been killed in the second day of sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon.

The clashes in Tripoli are between Sunnis and Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

The officials say the three were killed and 27 were wounded on Saturday. A total of nine people have been killed and 42 wounded in two days of fighting. The officials spoke condition of anonymity because they weren't allowed to talk to the media.

Tension has been high along Lebanon's religious and political fault lines since the militant Shiite Hezbollah group overran parts of Beirut in May in response to government attempts to limit its power.

BEIRUT - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will visit Syria soon to discuss establishing diplomatic ties between the neighboring countries, the Syrian foreign minister said on Monday.Walid Moualem handed ...

BEIRUT - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will visit Syria soon to discuss establishing diplomatic ties between the neighboring countries, the Syrian foreign minister said on Monday.Walid Moualem handed ...

BEIRUT: New Yorker Dareen Hakim had dreamed of waking up in her grandmother's house in the mountains overlooking Beirut to a breakfast of fresh fruit jams and a manousheh - a thyme-flavoured flatbread.

Sectarian clashes broke out Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing five people, including a policeman, and wounding at least 15, police officials said.

The clashes between Sunni Muslim gunmen and Alawites, an offshoot Shiite sect, broke out at dawn after a hand grenade was thrown toward a Sunni area, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Tension has been high along Lebanon's religious and political fault lines since the militant Shiite group Hezbollah overran parts of Beirut in May in response to government attempts to limit its power.

BEIRUT: Firemen in the Aley region brought a large forest fire under control on Wednesday amid the danger of exploding cluster bombs and land mines, a civil defense official said.

Lyrical notes from the saxophone of U.S. jazz artist Branford Marsalis waft into the cool night air of a mountain palace courtyard in Lebanon.

NAQOURA: Hizbullah's claim to victory over Israel in its July 16 prisoner swap undermines moderate Arab states and leaders, and may encourage armed struggle across the region at a time of upheaval in the ...

Lebanese firefighters along with the help of UN troops positioned in southern Lebanon brought a large forest fire under control on Wednesday, a civil defence official said.

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IT WAS A GHASTLY trade, flesh and blood for two boxes of bones. Many criticized it.

I kid you not . For the second time this year, Israel has decided to act against Al-Jazeera, after the influential TV station held a party for released Lebanese child-killer Samir Kuntar, The Jerusalem Post has ...

BEIRUT: Efforts were under way on Tuesday night to contain a massive fire that broke out Monday evening between the towns of Souk al-Gharb and Aley, southeast of Beirut.

BEIRUT: American presidential elections - even if nothing more than a Dukakis or Dole drubbing - are perpetually billed as the most important in recent years, if not ever.

UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday released details of a letter he received from Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah outlining his group's conditions for ...

By: Elias Bejjani Beirut- It is really sad, shocking and shameful when a convicted murderer is decorated as a hero.

BEIRUT, Lebanon : An international human rights watchdog is urging Syria to order an independent investigation into the shooting of inmates during a prison riot earlier this month.

Originally printed in The Independent . Yesterday was the last day of the 2006 Lebanon war, the final chapter of Israel's folly and Hizbollah's hubris, a grisly day of corpse-swapping and refrigerated body ...

Hezbollah has identified 157 guerrillas whose bodies Israel returned in a prisoner swap with the Lebanese militant group.

What can you say about a people who welcome a child murderer as a hero? Most Americans are familiar with the brutal murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer on the cruise ship Achille Laura in 1985.