At least one person has been killed after a fire broke out in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

Angelina Jolie, the Hollywood actress and special envoy for the UN’s refugee agency, said that the international community must address the root causes of the global refugee crisis.

Inside a garage in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley filled with green dust and piles of cannabis, stand a woman and a 13-year-old boy, sifting through the twigs and buds of the recent harvest.

An unseasonal sandstorm has swept across the Middle East covering Beirut and Damascus with a blanket of yellow dust.

Noel Baker travels to Lebanon, where as many as 1.5m Syrian refugees find themselves in limbo on the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict

Still another full week of January to go but I recommend you cheer yourself up by checking out the line-up for the Ballymaloe Litfest which has just been announced.

Lebanon has rarely been out of the news since the 1970s but through all the years of political turmoil and refugee crises, there has always been one annual event to celebrate: the arrival of the new vintage of Chateau Musar.

A suicide car bomb blast has exploded near a Hezbollah base in eastern Lebanon in the latest deadly attack to target the Shia militant group’s interests in the country.

Hezbollah fighters and Syrian rebels have exchanged fire in a remote area of eastern Lebanon overnight, leading to a number of deaths on both sides, according to a Lebanese security official.

Syria has bombed a security building that had been taken over by rebels on the Turkish border, wounding at least 11 people and sending dozens of civilians fleeing across the frontier.

Three people have been killed and dozens injured as protests by tens of thousands of Pakistanis infuriated by an anti-Islam film descended into deadly violence.

Syria’s woes point to an irreversible weakening of Western supremacy, writes Jaswant Singh

A British charity has suspended plans to deliver aid to Syria because of the worsening violence in Lebanon.

Seven Estonian tourists abducted nearly four months ago by masked gunmen while cycling through Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley have been released, officials say.

A FORENSICS team searching for the body of a British journalist kidnapped by Palestinian militants more than 20 years ago recovered human remains in Lebanon, the Foreign Office said yesterday.

Sporadic fighting between Lebanese troops and al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants continued today in a northern Palestinian refugee camp as police, stepping up raids nationwide on suspected militant hideouts, made 13 more arrests.

Lebanese guerrillas used human shields in their recent war with Israel, according to a report from an Israeli think tank.

Lebanon’s prime minister, caught in a vice of conflicting demands by Israel and Syria, side-stepped Israeli insistence that international forces be deployed on the Syrian border and said today that Lebanese troops already there posed no threat to its prickly Arab neighbour.

Lebanon’s defence minister has said he is certain Hezbollah would not break the cease-fire but warned rogue Palestinian groups of harsh measures and a traitor’s fate if they incited Israeli retaliation by launching rockets into the Jewish state.

Lebanon today warned rogue Palestinian groups against inciting Israel to break the fragile Middle East ceasefire by launching rockets into the Jewish state.

Lebanon’s defence minister today warned that any group breaking the ceasefire with Israel would be “decisively dealt with” and considered a traitor.

Lebanon’s defence minister threatened today to halt the Lebanese army’s deployment in south Lebanon if the United Nations does not intervene after an Israeli commando raid near Baalbek.

Hezbollah said its guerrillas clashed early today with an Israeli commando force that landed near their stronghold of Baalbek deep inside Lebanon.

Israeli drones and warplanes crisscrossed the skies above Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley tonight near the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek, security officials said.

Israel ordered its army to halt its offensive against Lebanese-based Hezbollah guerillas in as a United Nations-imposed ceasefire went into effect today.

Israeli airstrikes pounded south Beirut and border crossings to Syria, killing at least 13 people across Lebanon as ground fighting picked up intensity.

Israel’s security cabinet today decided to vastly expand its ground offensive and send troops deeper into Lebanon, in an attempt to deal more blows to Hezbollah and score quick battlefield victories before a Middle East ceasefire is imposed.

Israel’s military struck Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp early today, killing at least two people and wounding five, officials said. In the eastern Bekaa Valley five people were killed and two feared dead in an Israeli raid.

Israel’s military struck Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp early today, killing at least one person and wounding three others, officials said.

Israeli artillery pounded villages and hills throughout south Lebanon while a complete curfew was imposed on any civilians still trapped in the heart of the war zone.

Israeli commandos landed on a southern hilltop near Lebanon’s Mediterranean coast today, fighting Hezbollah in close combat in a bid to destroy its rocket launchers, as warplanes launched fresh airstrikes across the country, killing at least 28 people.

Israeli warplanes launched fresh airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs and Lebanon’s southern and eastern regions today, killing at least eight people. The stepped-up bombardment came a day after cross-border guerrilla rockets killed 15 Israelis.

Israel continued its bombardment of Beirut early today, while Hezbollah fighters repelled Israeli paratroopers trying to land in the southern city of Tyre, according to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television.

An Israeli missile hit a house in a Lebanese border village early today, killing a family of three, Lebanese security officials said.

Israeli planes and artillery attacks today hit Hezbollah positions and crushed houses and roads in southern Lebanon, killing up to 12 people.

Israeli warplanes and artillery intensified strikes today, hitting Hezbollah positions and crushing houses and roads in towns in southern Lebanon, killing as many as 12 people, officials said.

Israeli warplanes struck three buildings in a village near the market town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon as they renewed attacks on suspected Hezbollah targets today, killing three people and wounding nine, including four children, Lebanese security officials said.

Israeli forces kept up their offensive in Lebanon today, with troops battling Hezbollah for control of a southern town as their jets flattened a house in an unrelated strike and killed seven civilians.

US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice will lobby Israeli leaders today in an attempt to silence the guns and halt the bloodshed on both sides of the Lebanese border.

Israeli forces resumed attacks on Lebanon at daybreak today, pounding the country’s main road link to Syria with missiles and setting passenger buses on fire.

ISRAELI troops met fierce resistance from Hezbollah guerrillas yesterday as they crossed into Lebanon to seek tunnels and weapons after warning residents in a 20-mile swathe of the south along the border to flee.

Israeli troops met fierce resistance from Hezbollah guerrillas today as they crossed into Lebanon to seek tunnels and weapons after warning residents in a nearly 20 mile swath of the south along the border to flee.

Israeli troops fought Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon today, and there were Israeli casualties, the Israeli military said in Jerusalem.

Israeli airstrikes pounded parts of the Lebanese capital early today, killing two people in Beirut’s port, hitting a gas tank in a northern neighbourhood and shelling the southern suburbs.

Israeli missiles struck Lebanon from north to south and in the Bekaa Valley near Syria, killing 35 people, including a family who had come from Canada to visit their home village.

At least 12 Lebanese villagers, including women and children, were killed today in what appeared to be an Israeli airstrike on a convoy of vehicles fleeing a village near the border with Israel in southern Lebanon, a witness said.

Israeli warplanes renewed attacks on Lebanon early today, targeting bridges and fuel storage tanks and petrol stations in the east and south, security officials said.

ISRAEL intensified its attacks against Lebanon yesterday, imposing a naval blockade, twice hitting Beirut’s airport and blasting two Lebanese army air bases near Syria.

Israeli warplanes blasted runways at the main army air base in eastern Lebanon near Syria’s border today, police said, an attack that could draw the Lebanese army into Israel’s war with Hezbollah guerrillas.

A Lebanese guerrilla was killed and two Lebanese civilians were wounded in cross-border fighting today as Lebanese gunmen responded to Israeli airstrikes by attacking Israel, the Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV said.