Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi confirmed on Sunday night that the ministry had allowed an aid vessel to sail from Lebanon(黎巴嫩) to Cyprus before heading to Gaza Strip, local An-Nahar daily reported on Monday. According to Aridi, his min...
Several rockets have been fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, as fighting and rocket fire continues in the south and Gaza. An Israeli woman walks in her damaged kitchen after a rocket fired from southern Lebanon hit the northern Israeli town of...
Lebanon's top political leaders are meeting at the presidential palace in a bid to reach a national reconciliation pact among feuding factions. Attempts to get the pro-Iranian Hezbollah to disarm, however, are threatening to derail the talks, as Edw...
The British head of the U.N. Mine Action Program in southern Lebanon, Christopher Clark, and his 990-member team of mine clearers will receive the 2008 Nansen Refugee Award. The U.N. refugee agency says the prize recipients are being honored for the...
The United States is cautioning Syria against new intervention in Lebanon following a terrorist attack in Damascus late last month that Syria has blamed on Lebanon-based militants. U.S. officials say they have been monitoring Syrian military activit...
By Challiss McDonough Beiruit 24 May 2008 The Lebanese parliament is scheduled to elect a president on Sunday, ending an extended period of political turmoil that erupted earlier this month into violent clashes between Lebanon's U.S.-backed governmen...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo, Egypt 26 March 2008 Egypt says it is sending a junior minister to the Arab League summit scheduled for Damascus this weekend. Lebanon is boycotting the meeting, and Saudi Arabia will also send a low-level delegation. The...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 08 January 2008 Two rockets fired from Lebanese territory struck northern IsraelTuesday, raising tensions before the Mideast visit of President George Bush. VOA's Jim Teeple reports Israeli police say they have mobilized a mas...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 19 December 2007 A political stalemate in Lebanon that started at the end of 2006 has dragged on through the entire year, culminating in a crisis that has left the country without a president. VOA Middle East Correspondent...
By Edward Yeranian Beirut 17 December 2007 Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed a ninth time, as top political leaders again failed to reach a political deal that the Hezbollah-led opposition is demanding before a vote can take place. T...