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U.S. delivers laser-guided rockets to Lebanese military for air defense
The American Embassy in Lebanon says the United States has delivered laser-guided rockets valued at more than $16 million to the Lebanese army. In a statement, it says the rockets delivered Wednesday are a key component for a fleet of A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah uses Syrian war gains to increase political clout
Hezbollah's bigger role in Lebanon's new unity government points to a growing appetite to shape state affairs and builds on unprecedented military clout the group is wielding after helping turn the tide in Syria's war. Hezbollah's expanding power in Lebanon reflects a deepening of Iranian ...
Hundreds of Syrian refugees return home from Lebanon as peace is restored
Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon went back to their war-torn country on Thursday — the latest batch to return home in recent months. Thousands of Syrians have returned home from Lebanon since June as calm returns to parts of the country. The refugees had gathered ...
Syrian state media say air defenses repelled an Israeli air raid near the international airport south of Damascus on Sunday. Syrian state TV said the air defenses "prevented" the attack from achieving its goals. It said Israel fired six missiles on an area near Damascus ...
Israel says all Hezbollah cross-border tunnels from Lebanon have been found
Israel said Sunday it had uncovered all cross-border attack tunnels dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon and will bring its operation to find and destroy them to an end after more than a month. The operation had raised concerns that Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite group and ...
Winter storm freezes refugees in flooded Lebanon camps, compounding their misery
Storms in Lebanon have flooded Syrian refugee camps, ruining tents, mattresses and food and compounding the misery of people enduring powerful winter winds and biting cold. More than a million Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon since war broke out at home in 2011, and U.N. ...
U.N. force says Israel-Lebanon border tunnels allegedly dug by Hezbollah violate truce
U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon said Monday that two of the four tunnels discovered by Israel and allegedly dug by the Hezbollah militant group cross the border in violation of the cease-fire agreement that ended the 2006 war. UNIFIL said it has been investigating the tunnels ...
U.N. force confirms existence of tunnel in Israel near Lebanon border
A U.N. peacekeeping force Thursday confirmed the presence of a tunnel in northern Israel near the Lebanese border, after the Jewish state accused Hezbollah of digging under the frontier. UNIFIL "visited a location" near Metula in northern Israel, it said in a statement, and "can ...
British radio presenter Gavin Ford was laid to rest Sunday near Beirut in a ceremony that brought together dozens of fans, friends and family members days after his murder. Ford's lifeless body was discovered Tuesday at his home in Beit Meri, a mountain town east ...
Dramatic downfall of Carlos Ghosn reverberates in Lebanon
He may have fallen from grace internationally as one of the auto industry's most powerful leaders, but Carlos Ghosn can count on continued support in at least one corner of the globe. Lebanon has long held hopes that Ghosn, whose grandparents were Lebanese and who ...
Syria says important Nassib crossing into Jordan will be reopened in October
Syrian state media said Saturday the major Nassib border crossing with Jordan will reopen on Oct. 10, three years after the trade route was captured by rebels and closed. The closure of the crossing in 2015 cut an important transit route for hundreds of ...
