US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cautioned countries in the Middle East against using Lebanon as "a venue for proxy conflicts".

Lebanon's parliament has abolished a law which allowed rapists to avoid prison by marrying their victims.

International donors have pledged $6bn to help conflict-torn Syria this year, a senior European Union official has confirmed.

Behind its strategic manipulations and sham alliance to tackle the likes of IS, a purported ally of the West’s official ideology forms the heart of the terrorist creed, writes Brahma Chellaney

THERE is an apocryphal tale of a verbal joust between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and US president John F Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis of October, 1962.

Charlie Murphy’s latest comment dodges the questions I posed to him. 

The selfie is a powerful thing.

Lebanon began limiting the flow of Syrians entering the country yesterday, placing unprecedented restrictions on their entry, as it struggles to cope with a flood of asylum seekers fleeing civil war.

Material damage of benefit to al Qaeda, says Syrian military

Lebanese authorities detained a wife and suspected son of the leader of the Islamic State group several days ago, and she is being questioned, two senior Lebanese officials said.

Lebanese authorities detained a wife and suspected son of the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group several days ago, and she is being questioned, two senior officials have said.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their annual meetings this week, and one of the themes those powerful organisations will consider is shared prosperity — or to express the idea in another way, tackling growing inequality all around the world.

The Israeli military shot down a Syrian fighter jet that infiltrated its airspace over the Golan Heights today.

They were created by imperial powers, but war and terrorism is posing risks to the shape and future of many nations, writes Shlomo Avineri

A man accused of the torture and killing of two Irish soldiers is to be deported from the US to his native Lebanon.

An Israeli soldier feared by the the military to have been abducted by Palestinian gunmen in a firefight that shattered Gaza’s temporary ceasefire has been declared dead.

A senior Irish aid worker has warned that Lebanon is in danger of becoming destabilised by the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

The bitter civil war in Syria has forced more than 2m people to flee their homes and seek refuge in neighbouring countries. The conflict’s death toll has reached something around 130,000 souls already.

Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes near the Lebanese border today, wounding at least 10 Syrians who were rushed to hospital in a nearby Lebanese town.

With the US, the long-time global leader, seemingly weakened in recent times, the radical axis of Syria, Iran, and the Hezbollah may look to take advantage next year, writes Ehud Barak

Former Lebanese minister Mohamad Chatah, who opposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, was killed in a massive bomb blast yesterday which one of his political allies blamed on the Shi’ite Hezbollah militia.

A powerful car bomb that tore through a busy area of Beirut has killed at least 18 people in the bloodiest attack so far linked to Syria’s civil war on Lebanese civilians.

A powerful car bomb that tore through a busy area of Beirut has killed at least 18 people in the bloodiest attack yet on Lebanese civilians linked to Syria’s civil war.

France’s president has vowed his country will stand against instability in Lebanon, two weeks after the assassination of a senior Lebanese intelligence official sparked clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian groups.

Calm has returned to the streets of Lebanon’s capital after troops launched a major security operation to quell fighting touched off by the assassination of a top anti-Syrian intelligence chief.

At least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in gun battles in the Lebanese capital Beirut and coastal Tripoli in further unrest linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

Troops in Lebanon have begun a major security operation to force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain the violence prompted by the murder of a top intelligence official.

Lebanese soldiers fired machine guns and rifles into the air and lobbed volleys of tear gas at hundreds of angry protesters who are trying to storm the Lebanese government headquarters in Beirut.

Soldiers have carried two flag-draped coffins through a central Beirut square packed with thousands of Lebanese mourners who turned out for the funeral of a top intelligence official and his bodyguard.

Lebanon’s tourism minister is considering suing the makers of the hit US TV series Homeland over the way Beirut is portrayed.

A number of people have been injured after a massive car bomb exploded in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Lebanon’s tourism minister is considering suing the makers of the hit US TV series 'Homeland' over the way Beirut is portrayed.

The leader of Hezbollah claimed responsibility today for launching a drone which entered Israeli airspace earlier this week, a rare and provocative move by the Lebanese militants at a time of soaring regional tensions.

After two decades as a diplomatic troubleshooter in hotspots from Afghanistan to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi firmly believes that every conflict can be solved.

At least seven people were killed and 22 others injured in gun battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in northern Lebanon today, security officials said, as activists reported fresh shelling in a region in central Syria where a massacre last week left more than 100 people dead.

Two people were killed and 15 others injured in street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in the Lebanese capital overnight as the spiralling conflict in neighbouring Syria spilled across the border.

One person was killed and 10 injured in overnight clashes in Beirut between Sunni Muslim groups that support and oppose the Syrian regime, Lebanese security officials said today.

Israel’s defence minister urged the world today to apply “paralysing” sanctions on Iran’s energy sector and leadership.

BRITAIN will abstain from the United Nations vote on the Palestinian bid for statehood, Foreign Secretary William Hague told parliament yesterday.

Syria is planting landmines along parts of the country’s border with Lebanon as refugees stream out of the country to escape the crackdown on anti-government protests.

IRISH peacekeeping troops in Lebanon have helped to open up a likely new front for food exports to the Middle East.