The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

Israel has launched its first major airstrike on Beirut since a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah was established in November.

An already fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah appeared to be on shakier ground after rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel triggered Israeli airstrikes in the suburbs of Beirut

Israeli attack destroys a residential building in a Beirut suburb as France’s Macron decries ‘unacceptable’ strike.

Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in November

Israel's army had warned people to evacuate parts of a suburb in the Lebanese capital ahead of attack

Plumes of smoke rise from suburb of Dahiyeh in Lebanese capital after airstrike threatens fragile truce

The strike was in retaliation for rockets fired at northern Israel

Israel carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon Friday after its defence minister threatened Beirut over new rocket fire, rattling an already fragile truce that largely ended more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah.

French President Emmanuel Macron will host his Lebanese counterpart, Joseph Aoun, in Paris on Friday, a visit he says signals France's full commitment to Lebanon's "recovery" and "sovereignty". The country's new government is facing a crippling economic crisis, as well as the need to rebuild after the recent Israeli-Hezbollah war.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun visits France on Friday, his first trip to a European country since his January election and as Paris pushes Beirut for long-demanded political and economic reforms.

Battalion Sergeant Major Paddy Enfield from Co Donegal has completed tours in Lebanon over the last three decades.