Items related to Lebanon

Reuters 23 Oct 2012
The Lebanese army said it had arranged a ceasefire on Tuesday in the northern city of Tripoli after two nights of...
Ana Maria Luca 22 Oct 2012
It was 2 am on Monday morning when the shooting stopped in Beirut’s Sunni neighborhoods. Scores of...
Reuters 22 Oct 2012
At least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in gunbattles in the Lebanese capital Beirut and coastal...
Reuters 21 Oct 2012
  Violence erupted in downtown Beirut on Sunday as protesters tried to storm the offices of Prime...
A picture of senior intelligence official Wissam al-Hassan is pasted on a scooter at an empty street, blocked by Sunni Muslim protesters against his killing in an explosion, in Beirut 20 October 2012.
Reuters 20 Oct 2012
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Saturday he suspected the assassination of a senior Lebanese intelligence...
Lebanese soldiers patrol the streets of Beirut, January 22, 2011 as security measures were tightened in the Lebanese capital amidst the country's political crisis.
Reuters 19 Oct 2012
At least two people were killed and 15 wounded by a huge bomb that exploded in a street in central Beirut on Friday,...
An image grab taken from the Hezbollah-run Manar TV shows Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivering a speech via closed-circuit video from an undisclosed location, Janury 23, 2011, a day before the Lebanese President Michel Sleiman consults MPs to name a new premier after the collapse of Saad Hariri's government.
Reuters 11 Oct 2012
Hizbullah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged Thursday sending a drone aircraft that was shot down last weekend...
At a vigil in Beirut for migrant domestic workers who are often victims of abuse.
AFP 10 Oct 2012
Lebanon should probe and punish army and intelligence officials behind alleged beatings of Egyptian, Sudanese and...
Ana Maria Luca 09 Oct 2012
LEBANON — The village of Bodai, near Baalbeck in the Beqaa Valley, was in mourning last Wednesday. As the people...
Ana Maria Luca 01 Oct 2012
EAST LEBANON — Abu Fakher Zaarour, a farmer in his 60s, has lived all his life in Masharee al-Qaa, a strip of...