Lebanon News

BEIRUT: Your home, your office, your favorite restaurants and shops, an entertainment park for your kids and much more, all in one complex.

Libyan Foreign Ministry spokesman Saad Elshlmani says the Syrian charge d'affaires and the embassy staff on Thursday were given 72 hours to leave the country.

As Israel ratchets up talk of attacking Iran to thwart its nuclear program, the country also must weigh whether it would have to open a second front against Tehran's client, the terrorist group Hizbullah.

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link at a ceremony in Beirut, Lebanon, February 7, 2012.

Minister Adnan Mansour Meets U.N.Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly, Wednesday, February 08, 2012.

BEIRUT: The Lebanese government signed Wednesday a $200 million World Bank loan to finance a $370 million project aiming to supply Beirut with water from the Awali River.

BEIRUT: Talk among those in the know suggests that many Lebanese MPs, when asked about the two most irksome issues facing them in Parliament, cite the domestic violence and nationality draft laws.

BEIRUT: It is not surprising that Kesrouan draws much attention from Christian leaders, especially in the run-up to municipal and parliamentary elections.

JEDDAH: The director general of the Paris-based Institut de Monde Arabe , Mona Khazindar, has been elected "Woman of the Year". The choice was made on Feb.

The Council of Maronite Bishops, headed by Patriach Beshara Rai, center, meet in Bkirki, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov.

BEIRUT: Future Movement MP Ahmad Fatfat criticized the Lebanese Army Wednesday for unnecessarily flexing its muscles, urging the military instead to control the border with Syria.

Feb. 07--BEIRUT -- Lebanon posted the sixth steepest decline in tourist arrivals worldwide in 2011, with a 24.4 percent decrease from the previous year, according to preliminary figures issued by the United Nations World Tourism Organization.

Prominent Lebanese singer Ragheb Alama was in a minor accident while at Beirut International Airport waiting for his flight to Saudi Arabia.

BEIRUT: Two Lebanese men were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of smuggling arms to the Syrian opposition through illegal border crossings in the Bekaa, including the town of Arsal.

BEIRUT: Mazen Jannoun's "Watercolor, the Lebanese Coast" documents a four-year photographic journey he undertook along Lebanon's coast from 2007-11. The book features 100 or so of the photos Jannoun took of what he found during his north-south journey.

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, during a ceremony in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb.

WADI KHALED, Lebanon - As Western nations increasingly push to end the violence in Syria, dissidents on Tuesday said the killings are escalating in the city of Homs - a flashpoint for the uprising - where residents are fighting furiously to prevent their own annihilation.

New York, Feb 2 2012 1:10PM The United Nations-backed independent tribunal set up to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri announced today that it will try four men accused of carrying out the crime in absentia.

Founded in Abu Dhabi in 2007, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction is entering its sixth round this year.

THREE Australian men convicted of terrorism-related offences in Lebanon a little more than a year ago are to have their appeals heard in the military court in Beirut in April, according to the latest advice given to the federal government.