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A huge plume of smoke billowed over Beirut’s southern suburbs after Israeli jets struck on Sunday, 27 April.

Netanyahu’s office says Israel ‘will not allow Hezbollah to grow stronger’

Israeli jets have struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in the third such attack since a ceasefire began in late November

Attack on Hezbollah ally one of two deadly strikes as Lebanon PM under pressure to dismantle armed groups.

As pressure mounts ahead of a key UN summit, France is weighing whether to recognise a Palestinian state – a move President Emmanuel Macron says could come within months. The two-state solution has been the guiding principle of French diplomacy in the Middle East for 70 years, and while the…

Mazen Al Shaar, 48, was about to fly to Beirut when intercepted by Border Force officers

US pressure campaign to accelerate the disarming of Hezbollah is putting Lebanese government in a difficult position.

Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to bear the same message, half a century after the devastating conflict erupted: never again.

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon