Now Hezbollah is also at risk of losing the support of Lebanese Shiites, who make up its domestic base. As is usually the ...

At a news conference in Damascus, Mr. Mikati said both countries should quickly resolve the matter of the more than one million refugees that Lebanon took in as a result of the Syrian civil war ...

Aoun’s predecessor, Michel Aoun (no relation), stepped down in 2022 at the end ... Lebanon’s 14th president and the fifth army commander to become head of state. After Lebanon’s 15-year ...

Lebanon's lawmakers on Thursday elected ... The president's powers have been reduced since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. But filling the position is key to overseeing consultations towards ...

His assassination came less than a fortnight after multiple factions in Lebanon signed the Taif Peace Agreement, which was designed to bring 15 years of sectarian civil war to an end. “After my father ...

The Iran-backed Lebanese Shi'ite Islamist group Hezbollah played a major part in propping up Assad during Syria's civil war, fighting the Sunni Islamist insurgents who toppled him. Prior to this ...

Syria's new ruler and ... since the civil war started in 2011. Prime Minister Najib Mikati's trip came after Islamist-led rebels seized Damascus last month, bringing an end to the rule of Bashar ...