The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

The president of the American University of Beirut says Cyprus bested 15 other countries as the most suitable to host the institution’s first overseas campus

Lebanese Parliament meets to choose a new president after previous failures.

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.

The lawyer of a son of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi says his client's health is deteriorating three days into a hunger strike in his prison cell in Lebanon

Lebanon's disparate opposition, independent and main Christian parties said on Sunday they had nominated IMF official Jihad Azour for the presidency in a challenge to Hezbollah-backed candidate Suleiman Franjieh.

Decades of civil war and economic meltdowns left Lebanon’s people struggling for hope – but the country’s creatives are fighting back