#Lebanon

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it struck infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in several areas in southern Lebanon, including what it described as a training compound used by the ...

Pope Leo made a fervent appeal to Lebanon’s diverse communities to unite to solve the crisis-hit country’s myriad problems at a Mass on Tuesday attended by tens of ...

A PROVISIONAL agreement for settling the issue of supplementing the provident funds of bank employees, whose deposits were reduced as a result of the 2013 haircut was reached at an agreement ...

There is no doubt that the strengthening of relations between Cyprus and Lebanon through the signing of the agreement on the delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) between the ...

The head of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on Friday it retained the right to respond to Israel’s killing days ago of its top military commander and left open ...

An agreement between Cyprus and Lebanon delineating their exclusive economic zones (EEZs) is proof of Cyprus’ role in the region’s shifting geopolitical landscape and strengthens legality in the eastern ...

A maritime demarcation deal signed between Lebanon and Cyprus violates the rights of Turkish Cypriots on the island and is therefore unacceptable, Turkey said on Thursday. Lebanon and Cyprus on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides arrived at the presidential palace in Beirut at around 11.30 on Wednesday morning, where he was met by his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun. A guard of honour was ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to Beirut on Wednesday for a visit of “particular significance,” following an invitation from his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun, with specific announcements expected on energy ...

Israeli military forces opened fire on United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Sunday, in an incident the U.N. peacekeeping mission described as a serious violation. None of the ...

A survey conducted by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon last month found that a wall built by the Israeli military crosses the Blue Line, the de facto border, ...

In the heart of southern Lebanon, where pine trees once stood tall and abundant, a quiet crisis is unfolding. The cones are barren, the trees are drying and a forest ...

Cyprus agreed on Monday to provide Lebanon with technical assistance and expertise to modernise its electricity transmission and distribution networks, and improve infrastructure efficiency. Energy issues were discussed on Monday ...

The Lebanese government on Thursday night approved the delimitation of its maritime border with Cyprus. Thursday’s cabinet meeting was attended by both the country’s President Joseph Aoun and ...

President Nikos Christodoulides pledged his support for a “safe and stable Lebanon” on Tuesday, during a meeting with the country’s President Joseph Aoun held on the sidelines of the ...

Israel said on Thursday it had launched fresh airstrikes against Hezbollah military targets in southern Lebanon to stop the militant group rebuilding in the area. The U.S. brokered a ...

Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qmati told Reuters on Saturday that the group considered Friday’s cabinet session on an army plan to establish a state monopoly on arms “an opportunity to ...

The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said that Israeli drones dropped four grenades close to peacekeepers who were working to clear roadblocks hindering access to a U.N. ...

Hezbollah raised the spectre of civil war with a warning on Friday there would be “no life” in Lebanon if the government sought to confront or eliminate the Iran-backed group. ...

The United States has presented Lebanon with a proposal for disarming Hezbollah by the end of the year, along with ending Israel’s military operations in the country and the ...

Hundreds of Lebanese gathered solemnly near Beirut’s coast on Monday to commemorate a half-decade since the cataclysmic port blast of 2020, when more than 200 people were killed in one of ...

By Euripides L Evriviades The recent visit of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to Cyprus was not merely a diplomatic courtesy call. It was laden with history, symbolism and strategic meaning, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday extolled the “excellent relations” between Cyprus and Lebanon upon the arrival of his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Nicosia. “We have ...

The deputy shipping ministry, although aware of reports that regular passenger ferry cruises linking Cyprus and Lebanon were about to be launched, said it could not comment on their veracity ...