Lebanon's parliament has passed a controversial general amnesty law, following the abolition of the death penalty.

Lebanon's parliament has abolished the death penalty, becoming the first Arab country to replace it with life imprisonment and aggravated hard labor.

Lebanon's prime minister has visited a southern village as a Lebanese-Israeli agreement brokered by Washington appears to have started following a monthslong war.

Tyre, an ancient city on Lebanon's coast, is trying to recover after weeks of Israeli airstrikes. A new ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is in effect, but past ceasefires have failed.

An Israeli strike has hit a car on a busy highway just south of Beirut. The strike in Khaldeh came without warning, hours before the second day of talks between Lebanon and Israel in Washington.

Israel's government has ordered strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs. This comes after its ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon in 26 years.

Israeli troops have captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in their deepest incursion into the country in more than a quarter century.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reports that an Israeli airstrike on a village in eastern Lebanon has killed 12 people.

Yemen's government and Houthi rebels have reached a deal to free over 1,600 detainees in the largest swap during Yemen's 11-year civil war.

Hezbollah's leader has urged Lebanon to withdraw from direct talks with Israel scheduled in Washington.

Fierce fighting has erupted in the strategic southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil. Israeli troops appeared to encircle the area while Hezbollah militants launched rockets and artillery to push them ba...

Tensions have escalated between Israel and Hezbollah, with intensified attacks on Friday. At least 13 Lebanese security personnel were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon.

Many Lebanese Christians are marking Easter far from their homes and churches, displaced by Israel's war with the militant Hezbollah group. The Rev.

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli strike hit a building in a Beirut neighborhood just south of the heart of the Lebanese capital overnight.

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Israel is trading fire with Hezbollah, calling for mass evacuations and sending ground troops deeper into Lebanon.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes since Israel issued mass evacuation orders and ramped up its airstrikes on the militant group Hezbollah.

Israel has ordered residents of dozens of villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate as airstrikes around Beirut intensify and Hezbollah reports more attacks.

Some of the jubilation was open and even raucous. People danced in Iranian streets, honked car horns in celebration and screamed joyfully from windows and rooftops over the killing of the country’s su...

Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether to use that stockpile to restore a crippled economy while its citizens are looking at go...

Hani Al Sawah, a rap artist known as Al Darwish, has returned to Syria after 13 years to perform his political songs for the first time without the Assad dynasty in power.

Human Rights Watch criticizes the Syrian government for lacking accountability in sectarian violence.

Lebanon's economy minister says the country's efforts to control weapons from non-state groups are crucial for economic recovery.

The Lebanese military says it has ended the first phase of its plan to deploy across southern Lebanon and disarm non-state groups, including Hezbollah.

Israel’s military raids and strikes over the past year aiming to carve out a buffer zone in southern Syria have raised tensions, frustrated locals and also appear to have scuttled chances — despite U....

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, as part of his first foreign trip, aiming to bring a message of peace to a region marked by war and tensions.

Lebanon and Cyprus have signed a long-delayed sea border agreement, ending an almost 20-year impasse.

The upcoming visit of Pope Leo XIV to Lebanon has rekindled a glimmer of hope for many in the small, crisis-battered country.

Israel has struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild.

The first trial has opened of some of the hundreds of suspects linked to deadly clashes in Syria's coastal provinces that quickly spiraled into sectarian attacks earlier this year.

More than 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have missed the past two years of school because of the war between Israel and the militant Hamas group.

The death toll in Gaza from overnight Israeli strikes has climbed to 81. Previously, at least 60 people, including many children, were reported killed.

When Syrian government forces entered the minority Druze enclave of Sweida this summer, it backfired.

Lebanese dancer Alexandre Paulikevitch takes to the stage in Beirut, defying extremist threats. His sold-out performance, which includes wearing dresses and dancing to classical Arabic music, has ange...

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are ready to invest in an economic zone in south Lebanon. This zone aims to create jobs for Hezbollah members and supporters if they disarm.