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Cyprus and Lebanon will on Wednesday hold their first technical meeting on a feasibility study for a proposed subsea electricity interconnection, with the participation of the World Bank, according to ...

Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese town killed at least 13 people including six children on Monday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, in one of the deadliest days of Israeli bombardment ...

Israeli strikes on the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Rumman early on Monday killed at least 11 people, including two children and two medics, Lebanon’s state news agency said. Israeli ...

Lebanese authorities have stopped a boat carrying some 25 Syrian migrants from departing for Cyprus and arrested a Syrian national suspected of organising the journey on Monday. Lebanon’s state security ...

At least nine people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanon’s state news agency said. Seven people were killed when Israeli warplanes struck a house ...

Lebanon and Israel have agreed a shortlist of countries that could send troops to verify the disarmament of Hezbollah under a US-brokered agreement, a Lebanese official said on Friday, with ...

Two Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said on Thursday, while Israeli retaliatory attacks killed at least one person, according to the Lebanese health ministry. On ...

Cypriot intelligence service chief Tasos Tzionis did travel to Lebanon in June, the government confirmed on Monday, though the exact purpose and details of his trip remain officially undisclosed following ...

The Cypriot government has shipped around €200,000 worth of humanitarian aid to Lebanon, the foreign ministry said on Monday. The shipment comprised a total of 31 containers, which the foreign ministry said ...

A man has been arrested in Lebanon after having reportedly offered “sensitive security information” to the Israeli embassy in Nicosia, according to reports on Wednesday. Lebanese news website Lebanon Debate ...

US President Donald Trump pledged support for Lebanon on Tuesday during talks with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun but offered no timetable for an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, saying only ...

Lebanese troops began deploying to parts of southern Lebanon on Tuesday after Israeli forces withdrew from a designated pilot zone under a United States brokered agreement aimed at reducing tensions ...

Lebanese army troops began deploying in the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh on Tuesday after Israeli forces withdrew from the area, a senior Lebanese security official said, in line ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday reaffirmed Cyprus’ commitment to strengthening bilateral relations with Lebanon, stressing that the neighbouring country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity remain a priority for the Republic. ...

Some 400,000 Lebanese uprooted by war have returned to southern Lebanon, with more expected to follow in the coming week, the social affairs minister said on Tuesday, encouraged by a lull ...

Israeli soldiers are free to act without restriction to eliminate threats in Lebanon, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday, adding troops remained in position in what Israel refers ...

Israeli strikes in Lebanon killed at least 16 people on Saturday, Lebanese Civil Defence said, hours after a ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect, with Israel saying it was responding to projectiles ...

At least 18 people were killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Friday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, while the Israeli military said four soldiers were killed in one of ...

The U.S. government on Thursday announced sanctions against Lebanese officials it said were aligned with Hezbollah and members of the previously sanctioned Alaa Hassan Hamieh business network, for obstructing ...

Leaders of the G7 countries demanded a ceasefire in Lebanon on Wednesday and said they will diversify energy supply routes to reduce dependence on the Strait of Hormuz in response ...

Iran and Israel said they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump, though Tehran warned it would resume hostilities if Israel continued ...

Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other following an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that they immediately “stop ‘shooting'”, though Tehran said ...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Iran of using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with the United States on Friday, in some of his toughest criticism yet of ...

Iran has reaffirmed support for its Lebanese ally Hezbollah and demanded Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon, underscoring complications facing an interim deal to end the broader conflict between the U....