1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...

The parliament looks set to elect army chief Joseph Aoun as head of state, ending a presidential vacuum which has persisted ...

Lebanese army commander elected president weeks after a tenuous cease-fire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between ...

Israeli troops withdrew from the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura on Monday, amid growing accusations from both sides of ...

Push comes as Syria’s new de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met Bahraini, Libyan delegations in Damascus. Syria’s new administration is carrying out a security crackdown against what it has described as ...

Tehran dominated much of the region through loyal armed groups; burned by Lebanon trauma, Israel moved away from that ...

The two leading Gulf powers, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are taking a cautious approach, because Hayat Tahrir ...

Advertisement The Syrian Army first entered Lebanon in 1976 as part of a 30,000-strong Arab Deterrent Force to stop the raging civil war that started six months earlier. Soon, the Saudi ...

The parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S.

Lebanon’s new president and former army commander Joseph Aoun has maintained a low profile. Those who know him say he is ...

Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president on Thursday, is a 60-year-old career soldier who kept his ...

It allowed this to happen in Gaza and Lebanon ... border and its takeover of the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, “needs to stop. Along with destroying Assad’s army – officials estimate that ...