#Lebanon

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 ...

Lebanese president Joeseph Aoun will visit Cyprus on Wednesday morning for a one-day visit to hold official talks with president Nikos Christodoulides. Government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said that Christodoulides will ...

A U.S. envoy met Lebanese officials in Beirut on Monday to discuss a proposed plan to disarm Hezbollah, hours after Israel launched new air strikes and a cross-border ground ...

Sixteen Israelis and two Cypriot crew members were rescued off the coast of Lebanon on Thursday after their boat stalled due to engine failure. According to the Times of Israel, ...

The Israeli military on Thursday told residents of four neighborhoods in Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate ahead of strikes on what it said were underground Hezbollah drone-manufacturing sites, and ...

Plans to link Cyprus and Lebanon with a passenger ferry service, were confirmed on Tuesday by Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, he said a group of ...

At least three people were killed and seven wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs early on Tuesday, the Lebanese health ministry said, further testing a shaky ...

Iraq has agreed to supply Lebanon with fuel for six more months, the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement on Saturday, renewing a deal ...

In a pivotal meeting held in Paris on Friday, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides highlighted significant diplomatic progress made between Cyprus, France, Greece, Lebanon, and the interim government of Syria. The ...

Israeli said on Friday it had intercepted a projectile launched from Lebanon and vowed to respond strongly to protect its security, the latest strains to a shaky truce that ended ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is participating on Thursday in the European Paris Summit, aimed at reaching a comprehensive peace agreement following recent ceasefire negotiations between the US, Russia and the Ukraine. ...

Lebanon’s new government won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, following a speech by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam promising to push for economic and financial reforms and to ...

Hezbollah on Sunday condemned an attack on a United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) convoy in Beirut on Friday which the U.S. State Department has said was reportedly carried out ...

France has put together a proposal for United Nations peacekeepers, including French troops, replace Israeli forces at key points to ensure those forces leave Lebanon by a February 18 deadline, Foreign ...

Lebanon formed a new government on Saturday, following unusually direct US intervention in the process and in a step intended to bring the country closer to accessing reconstruction funds following ...

Cyprus, in cooperation with the government of France on Friday delivered a total of 33 tonnes of supplies and logistics items to the Lebanese Armed Forces, it was announced on Friday. ...

Lebanon’s new president Joseph Aoun stressed to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday the urgency of an Israeli military withdrawal as stipulated by a ceasefire deal that ended ...