Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four ...

Lebanon offers reasons for optimism in the Middle East and so could Syria if it can achieve stability, a senior S&P executive ...

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Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Israel is trying to negotiate a border demarcation with the Lebanese government while continuing to hold Hezbollah in check.

Lebanon has appointed a new army chief and heads of three security agencies as the government seeks to firm up state ...

Officials say negotiations would also include the future of Israeli military outposts in Lebanon and of Lebanese prisoners ...

Lina Abou-Habib is fighting inequality, working to change laws that make it difficult for women to keep custody of their ...

Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon, among hundreds of people ...

Israel's war on Gaza and the fall of Assad have rattled the region, but as history shows, there is often more continuity than ...

For more than two years, Lebanon has been paralysed. The previous president, Michel Aoun, left office in October 2022.