The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

And a shark attack in Egypt, Gaddafi’s fifth son on hunger strike in Lebanon. Here’s the Middle East this week.

Lebanon has been plunged deeper into crisis after Hezbollah and its allies thwarted a bid to elect a top IMF official as president.

The 1200 participants, aged 16 to 76, travelled from as far as the US, Lebanon, Ukraine and New Zealand

Israeli soldiers have fired tear gas to disperse scores of stone-throwing protesters along the border with Lebanon, leaving some demonstrators and troops with breathing problems

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed his former foreign minister as his personal envoy to Lebanon to try to break the political deadlock in the country, a year after his own efforts to do so failed.

The son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is protesting his eight-year-long detention without trial.

Feminists and human rights activists in Lebanon are speaking out against attempts to impose increasing restrictions on their lives in the name of "conservative values". This follows an attack on a woman at a beach in the southern city of Sidon, when an Islamic cleric and his followers told Mayssa…

Rania Matar has found inspiration in Beirut’s resilient women, trying to rebuild lives after the huge blasts that wrecked the city

The palatial modern art museum was badly damaged in the explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital.