Lebanon

Dozens of rockets have been launched from southern Lebanon into occupied Palestinian territories following Israeli forces raid on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound for two nights in a row and attacks on Palestinian worshipers during the holy month of Ramadan.

The Lebanese government’s decision to delay the start of daylight savings time by a month until the end of the holy month of Ramadan has resulted in mass confusion. The country has woken up in two time zones amid an escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over a decision to extend winter time for a month.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has dismissed Israeli officials' recent threats of possible military attack on Lebanon, saying any strike will be met with an immediate response.

The Lebanese pound has sunk to a historic low against the US dollar on the country’s parallel market. It's the latest sombre milestone in an economic meltdown that has plunged much of the population into poverty.

The leader of Hezbollah movement, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, urged the Lebanese parliament to elect a new president, declaring the movement's support for former president Suleiman Franjieh as their candidate.

The judge investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion has charged Lebanon’s then-Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, and two former ministers with homicide with probable intent, according to a court summons seen by the Reuters news agency.

Top Republican and Democratic senators have urged the administration of US President Joe Biden to use sanctions to pressure Lebanese lawmakers to form a new government.

An Irish soldier has been killed on a United Nations peackeeping duty in Lebanon after a convoy of two armoured utility vehicles carrying eight personnel travelling to Beirut came under fire, Ireland’s defence forces have confirmed.

Lebanon's parliament failed to elect a new president Thursday for a ninth time, despite the damage the political deadlock is doing to efforts to bail out its economy.

Lebanese lawmakers on Thursday failed for the eighth time to elect a new president. Speaker Nabih Berru scheduled a new session on December 8, as the country's political deadlock continues to prevent consensus on a new president.

French oil giant TotalEnergies has announced it will soon launch gas exploration operations off the Mediterranean Sea along Lebanon’s coast. It follows a US-mediated deal last month that put an end to a decades-long maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel.

The secretary general of Hezbollah says the resistance movement won Lebanon’s recent parliamentary elections despite all pressures, calling, however, for reforms in the country’s electoral law.

A report says the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah and its political allies have managed to gain the majority of the seats in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections by getting a number of independent candidates on board.

Iran’s former attaché in Lebanon has said resistance movement Hezbollah will remain a potent force in the country despite losing some seats in the recent parliamentary elections.

Lebanon’s interior ministry says Hezbollah and its allies have lost their majority in the parliament. The country’s general election results were announced on Tuesday.

Polls opened on Sunday in Lebanon’s first election since the country’s economic collapse, a test of whether Hezbollah and its allies can preserve their parliamentary majority amid soaring poverty and anger at ruling parties.

The Israeli Army has reportedly targeted an area in southern Lebanon with heavy artillery fire in what is calls retaliation for rocket firing from Lebanon.

One child has died but more than 40 people have been rescued following the sinking of a boat off the coast of Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli on Saturday, Transport Minister Ali Hamie told Reuters.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait returned their ambassadors to Beirut in a move that slowly thaws a diplomatic crisis that has strained Lebanon since last October, sparked by critical comments of the Saudi-led coalition’s war in Yemen. Recent improvements in relations between Lebanon and the two Persian Gulf states have relieved the cash-strapped country’s politicians.

At least one person was killed and seven others were injured in an explosion at a scout centre affiliated with the Amal Movement near Sidon in southern Lebanon, officials told Reuters early on Tuesday.

Lebanese security forces have foiled three suicide attacks planned by militants linked to Daesh terror group in Beirut's southern suburbs, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said Wednesday.

Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the resistance group is making rockets and drones on its own and has the capability to turn rockets into precision missiles.

A general strike by public transportation and labor unions paralyzed Lebanon Thursday as the country in engulfed in one of the world’s worst economic crises.

A Lebanese judge has issued a travel ban against Central Bank Governor over a lawsuit accusing him of financial misconduct.

Electricity was cut off throughout Lebanon on Saturday. Lebanon’s state electricity company has announced its power plants had stopped working after protesters stormed a key substation and tampered with the electrical equipment.