This week’s surge in violence between Israeli forces and Hezbollah that has already killed more than 500 people in Lebanon in a single day – including many women and children – represents the most ...

It was a year ago when Jomana Siddiqui visited Lebanon, where her father was born — and is now buried. She planned to return there soon; this time, she thought, she would take her two teenage ...

Rescuers rush to the scene of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh on September 24, 2024 — Kawnat HAJU The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is bracing for a ...

HEBBARIYE, Lebanon (AP) — A series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed 16 people and a barrage of rockets fired by the militant group Hezbollah killed one Israeli man, making Wednesday ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Nada Sabbagh received a brief, chilling telephone call from her son-in-law last month telling her: “Come to your daughter. I am going to kill her.” Sabbagh said by the time she arrived ...

The United States has reaffirmed its warning against travel to Lebanon due to the escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, as concerns intensify about the conflict escalating into a ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Coming up, John McCain tries his firepower on the NRA, but first, under an agreement brokered by the Arab League, Beirut's air and sea ports ...

MIKE PESCA, host: The outbreak of violence in Lebanon last week had deep ethnic and religious roots. That's the underpinning of all outbreaks of violence in Lebanon. But the approximate cause - I ...

BEIRUT — Syria and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire late Monday after Syrian forces loyal to the new government in Damascus ...