Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias.

For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Diary Dispatches from Beirut, by Mariam Tell above. There are words one often associates with a hometown, and I have come to characterize my ...

Internal paralysis, deeply entrenched feelings of ethnic identity and a political system rooted in sectarianism render normalization almost unthinkable.The post Why Lebanon won’t make peace with Israe ...

The clashes began in the afternoon after a militia group fired at a Druze checkpoint set up in the village of Al-Makous ...

Reports that Syria's interim president is threatening action over thousands of Syrians still held in Lebanese prisons have ...

Lebanon’s president says his country wants peace but not normalisation with Israel, as health authorities said an Israeli air strike killed one person in the south of the country. As well as causing ...

Joseph Aoun called on Israel to withdraw its troops from five occupied localities in the south of his country to let the Lebanese army complete its deployment on the southern border ...

Israel doesn’t exist to placate the feelings of its detractors and defamers. It exists to protect Jewish life and uphold Jewish dignity.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has no plans to have normal relations with Israel at the present time, and Beirut’s main aim is to ...

For decades, Lebanon has been torn apart by internal division and external conflict. There may currently be a narrow window ...