The Lebanese Army Tuesday detained a senior ISIS commander along the country's restive northeastern border.
The state-run National News Agency said that Sameh Al-Breidy, a notorious ISIS official, had been arrested in an operation carried out by the (...)
Lebanon's foreign ministry Friday expressed condolences with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the families of the victims of an EgyptAir plane that disappeared over the Mediterranean with 66 passengers and crew on board.
In a statement, (...)
Hezbollah said Saturday that "Takfiri groups" were responsible for the explosion that killed its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine in Damascus.
The Hezbollah run Al-Manar TV reported the latest development in a news flash one day after a (...)
Lebanon's Interior Ministry has released statistics showing the number of voter turnout in the first stage of the country's municipal elections. Just over 15 percent of eligible voters have so far cast a ballot in the capital.
The voter turnout so (...)
Lebanon's Interior Ministry has released statistics showing the number of voter turnout in the first stage of the country's municipal elections. Just over nine percent of eligible voters have so far cast a ballot in the capital.
The voter turnout so (...)
A car bombing Tuesday reportedly targeted a prominent Palestinian official near the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, a source told The Daily Star.
It remains unclear who was targeted in the explosion that rocked Hay Al-American (...)
Beirut's State Prosecutor for Appeals Tuesday charged eight people accused of storming and ransacking the Lebanon offices of the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper last week.
A judicial source told The Daily Star that Judge Ziad Abou Haidar (...)
A number of ISIS and Nusra Front militants have been killed in intense clashes near Lebanon's northeastern border in the last 24 hours, Hezbollah-affiliated media reported.
The War Media Center, which monitors fighting in the Syrian border area of (...)
Military Investigative Judge Fadi Sawwan issued six indictments against 16 suspected ISIS and Nusra Front members Thursday over a variety of charges.
Those charged include four Lebanese citizens and 12 Syrian nationals, some of whom are on the run. (...)
A roadside bomb targeted an army convoy Thursday near the northeastern border town of Arsal, killing one soldier and wounding one other.
A source told The Daily Star that the explosive device was detonated near an army post northeast of Arsal.
The (...)
Two explosions were heard at Brussels Airport on Tuesday, Belgian media reported.
Images on the RTBF website showed smoke rising from the terminal building, where the windows had been shattered. It was not immediately known what caused the blasts. (...)
Russia is warning that it will start responding to cease-fire violations in Syria unilaterally starting Tuesday if the United States refuses to coordinate rules of engagement against the violators.
Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian General (...)
Hezbollah's Loyalty to the Resistance bloc Thursday said the Gulf Cooperation Council's decision earlier this month to label the group as a "terrorist organization" was an indicator of Saudi Arabia's deteriorating political and economic (...)
A Lebanese national was killed and five others wounded when extremists attacked tourists on a beach at a resort town in Ivory Coast Sunday, a statement by Lebanon's Foreign Ministry said. The statement identified the dead as Toufic Hayek, 54, who (...)
The Lebanese Army Intelligence Wednesday seized rockets and arrested three suspects during a raid on houses in the Bekaa Valley, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The news agency said that an intelligence patrol raided several homes in (...)
Israeli troops Wednesday hurled smoke bombs across the barbed wire border fence into Lebanon, a security source told The Daily Star.
The Israeli soldiers tossed five smoke bombs at the southern village of Kfar Kila near the border fence with (...)
The Gulf Cooperation Council declared Hezbollah a "terrorist organization" Wednesday in an unprecedented move signalling a further deterioration of Lebanon-Gulf ties.
Last week, five out of six GCC countries issued travel warnings against Lebanon (...)
The international community will support Lebanon's military should ISIS launch an attack against the country, a lawmaker who participated in talks with senior U.S. officials in Washington said Tuesday.
"We were assured by a Pentagon official that (...)
The Military Court Thursday indicted 20 people for belonging to extremist militant organizations, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Military Investigative Judge Fadi Sawan indicted 19 people on charges of belonging to ISIS and the (...)
Clashes broke out between ISIS and Nusra Front militants on Lebanon's northeast border Monday following several days of relative calm, Hezbollah-affiliated media said.
The War Media Center, which monitors fighting in the border Qalamoun area and (...)
A complete failure of the Syria peace talks is "always possible", but all efforts must be made to resolve the devastating conflict, the U.N. Special Envoy said on Tuesday.
Staffan de Mistura, in an interview with Swiss television RTS, said that he (...)
An Algerian court jailed six people on Tuesday in a corruption case involving state energy firm Sonatrach, including a former vice president and an ex-state bank chief, and it fined two local subsidiaries for their role.
The verdicts in the (...)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul, calling it a "despicable crime" and said the perpetrators must face justice.
Ten people, mostly foreigners were killed, when a Syrian suicide bomber blew up (...)
Russia will create three new military divisions on its Western flank in 2016 and bring five new strategic nuclear missile regiments into service, Sergei Shoigu, the country's defense minister, was quoted as saying by news agencies on (...)
Democratic lawmakers criticized President Barack Obama Tuesday over a wave of arrests of Central American migrants for the purpose of expelling them.
U.S. authorities announced last week they had arrested 121 adults and children, mainly in Texas, (...)