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Lebanon

  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu says Israel has resumed ‘fighting with force’ against Hamas

    Israeli military’s renewed air strikes in Gaza kill more than 400 people, say Palestinian officials

    People look through the rubble after an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Tuesday
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israel strikes Syrian capital in warning to new leader

    Strike targeting Palestinian group is first since interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa established control

    A member of the Syrian security forces guards the site of an Israeli air strike on a building in Damascus, Syria
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    News in-depthSyria
    ‘The tanks are everywhere’: Life on Syria’s new front line with Israel

    The IDF is using excavators, tanks and bombs to take territory from neighbours and remake its borders

    Children ride a bicycle on a street filled with debris as an Israeli army tank takes position in the background in the Syrian town of Madinat al-Baath
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Huge crowds mourn Hizbollah’s Nasrallah at Beirut funeral

    Ceremony in 55,000-seat stadium comes five months after veteran leader was killed in Israeli air strike

    A vehicle carries the coffins of former Hizbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine in Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Israel
    Israel blames Palestinian militants for Tel Aviv bus bombs

    Operations stepped up by Israel military in northern West Bank after public transport is targeted

    Forensic personnel inspect a bus following its explosion in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    Middle East war
    Lebanon demands full Israeli withdrawal from its territory

    Tuesday’s deadline to pull out passes as Israel says its troops will stay in 5 ‘strategic’ locations

    Israeli military tanks on the border with Lebanon on February 18 2025
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israeli troops to keep control of 5 ‘strategic’ locations inside Lebanon

    Decision to retain military forces in the country comes ahead of Tuesday’s deadline for Israel to withdraw

    Israeli army forces are seen patrolling a rural area in the village of Kfarshuba, southern Lebanon. The soldiers are walking alongside a vehicle on a path bordered by stone walls and surrounded by vegetation.
  • Sunday, 16 February, 2025
    Middle East war
    Hizbollah supporters protest in Lebanon as tensions rise over Iran flights

    Demonstrations come as ceasefire between Israel and Shia militant group is due to enter next phase

    Hizbollah supporters clash with the Lebanese army after blocking the road to Beirut International airport on Saturday
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran’s president calls for unity against Trump

    Fading hopes of negotiations with US and sanctions relief send currency to record low

    Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, near the front in the centre, among a large crowd of people at a rally to mark the 46th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran on February 10 2025
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    News in-depthHizbollah
    How Hizbollah is using cash and WhatsApp groups to shore up power

    Weakened by war with Israel, the group is deploying a vast patronage network to strengthen its base

    Montage of Hizbollah members salute and raise the group’s yellow flags at a funeral; a Lebanese soldier patrols along a residential area that was devastated by the war between Israel and Hizbollah, in the southern coastal town of Naqur
  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    Lebanon forms new cabinet after three-year hiatus

    New government will seek to enact reforms in order to tap much-needed aid from donor countries

  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    The Art Market
    Beirut has suffered endless catastrophes — its art galleries offer a glimmer of hope

    Amid conflict and economic woes, businesses have struggled in the capital — but dealers and curators sense the tide is turning

  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas frees 3 Israelis and 5 Thais in largest hostage release

    Israel hands over dozens of Palestinian prisoners in additional exchange designed to resolve stand-off over ceasefire

    Freed Israeli hostage Agam Berger waves after being released by Hamas on Thursday
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Syrian crisis
    Israeli military to hold on to Syrian territory indefinitely

    Defence minister says forces will remain in positions seized after collapse of Assad’s regime ‘for an unlimited time’

    An Israeli military vehicle on the Syrian side of the border fence in the Golan Heights
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    Middle East war
    Palestinians return to northern Gaza as Israel hostage deal holds

    Passage was delayed by stand-off over Hamas release of last civilian female hostage in Gaza

    Displaced Palestinians make their way back to their homes in northern Gaza
  • Saturday, 25 January, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    ‘Explosions every day’: Israeli troops entrench in southern Lebanon

    Military delays withdrawal as it carries out hundreds of operations during ceasefire with Hizbollah

    Smoke billows from a fire that Lebanese media reports say was lit by Israeli forces in Burj al-Muluk, South Lebanon on January 21 2025
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israeli forces to remain in Lebanon beyond 60-day ceasefire deadline

    Government says Hizbollah has not fully withdrawn so military exit will not be complete by Sunday

    People stand at a damaged site at the Lebanese village of Khiam, near the border with Israel on January 23 2025
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israel and Lebanon in talks to extend Hizbollah ceasefire

    Negotiations take place ahead of deadline for IDF and militant group to pull back following devastating war

    Israel Defense Forces patrolling the southern Lebanese village of Naqoura in October last year
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia aims to rebuild Lebanon ties with foreign minister’s visit

    Riyadh is also trying to reset relations with Syria after fall of Assad regime

    Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, left, with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Gazans return home . . . to nothing

    Following the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, many Palestinians find only sand, twisted metal and shredded concrete where they used to live

    A dinning table amid debris in a ruined neighbourhood of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah
  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
    Israel Defense Forces
    Israeli military chief resigns

    Herzi Halevi’s departure over failure to protect country from Hamas attack triggers politically charged battle for control

    Herzi Halevi during a visit to northern Israel earlier this month
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    News in-depthWest Bank
    Palestinian security forces crack down on West Bank militants

    Authorities launch operation as they seek a role in postwar Gaza

    A relative mourns over the body of journalism student Shatha Sabbagh
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    What are the terms of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal?

    Hostages to be gradually released in exchange for Palestinian detainees under agreement that could end brutal conflict in Gaza

    Side-by-side images: a protester holding a sign reading ‘HOSTAGE DEAL NOW’ with a yellow ribbon, and a man walking through rubble
  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    A power shift in Lebanon

    International Court of Justice head named Lebanon’s new prime minister, in blow for Hizbollah

  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Nawaf Salam named as Lebanon’s new prime minister

    International Court of Justice head secures support of majority of MPs in blow for Hizbollah militant group

    Nawaf Salam listens to a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands
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