The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

The Syrian conflict began in early March 2011 on the heels of the Arab Spring as pro-democracy uprisings in Syria demanded regime change and political reform.

A Syrian Cabinet minister says Syrian refugees in neighboring Lebanon can start returning home, where he says they will get all the help they need from authorities

Following a long period of political rift between the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and Hezbollah, a meeting on Thursday brought together the PSP head, Walid Jumblatt, and the political assistant to Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hajj Hussein Al-Khalil. The two sides emphasized the need to put aside differences and to maintain dialogue…

Iraq's government has agreed to continue supplying Lebanon's electricity company with heavy fuel oil for another year, Lebanon's caretaker prime minister said on Thursday, alleviating pressure on Lebanon's struggling power grid. Najib Mikati said he had made the request to Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who agreed to extend the…

The armed man’s wife supported her husband’s actions, claiming he ‘did what he had to do’

A Lebanese man who had held six people hostage at gunpoint inside a commercial bank in Beirut for around six hours exited the bank on Thursday evening, a Reuters journalist said.

The gunman entered the Federal Bank of Lebanon in Beirut and drew his firearm when he was told he couldn't access the $200,000 (£160,000) in his bank account

A hostage standoff in which a gunman demanded a Beirut bank let him withdraw his trapped savings so that he could pay his father's medical bills ended seven hours later with the man's surrender Thursday. No injuries were reported. Authorities said Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, a 42-year-old food-delivery driver, entered the…

Banks in Lebanon have implemented informal capital controls amid ongoing economic crisis, effectively freezing savings.