The United States on Monday ordered non-emergency personnel to leave its embassy in Beirut as President Donald Trump threatens strikes on Iran, which has close relations with Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah.

The US State Department has ordered the evacuation of non-essential embassy personnel from Beirut.

Bank of Beirut UK has transitioned to the Temenos core banking system, enhancing its operational capabilities.

Protesters in Beirut have blocked roads following the Cabinet's approval of new taxes that will lead to increased fuel prices.

More than a year after a cease-fire, the continuous presence of Israeli drones above Beirut serves as a stark reminder that the conflict, in many ways, persists.

The United States has ordered some staff to leave its embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, amidst rising tensions with Iran.

US official says Washington determined it was 'prudent to reduce our footprint to essential personnel' in Lebanon.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has blasted Syria’s interim president calling him a “puppet without a soul” controlled by Western countries, adding that his fate eventually will be similar to that of ousted leader Bashar Assad. In an audio message released late Saturday by the group’s spokesperson, who identifies himself as Abu Huzaifa al-Ansari, he called on IS followers around the world to attack Jewish and Western targets as they have in past years. Al-Ansari sent greetings to IS fighte

The singer-songwriter loves her hometown for its resilient spirit, and its chatty taxi drivers

FIFA President Gianni Infantino celebrated in Beirut after receiving a Lebanese passport.

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-LEBANON-USA:US pulling non-essential staff from embassy in Beirut amid Iran tensions

Remembering and documentation are radical acts in Lebanon, a country with a tumultuous history and no national archive. Daher’s effervescent cultural collage is a direct challenge to collective amnesia At one point in Lana Daher’s film Do You Love Me, a woman questions the repeated advice of those around her to simply forget Lebanon’s 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. Why does she insist on “digging into the past”, especially when “this war was no worse than the others”? Yet it is precisely her act of remembering – of knowing that she “did not dream” the actuality of war – that prompts her to dig “into the present”. The Lebanese director’s debut feature is itself a substantive feat of excavation, with more than 20,000 sources consulted in collaboration with the editor, Qutaiba Barhamji (who worked on The Voice of Hind Rajab), to unearth the footage that would produce this 76-minute film. It is substantive also in the sense that this work was done in relation to a country that does not have a national archive. Continue reading...

Daniel Beichler has been named the new head coach of FC Red Bull Salzburg, signing a contract that extends until 2028.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino received his Lebanese passport at the Interior Ministry in Beirut on Monday, months after he was granted citizenship by the country’s president. Infantino, who is married to Lebanese citizen Lina al-Ashkar, thanked President Joseph Aoun when he received him Monday for granting him and his family Lebanese citizenship. The meeting with Aoun took place after Infantino visited the Interior Ministry where her performed the official process of filing documents, being photographed and having his fingerprints taken before he was handed a copy of his new blue Lebanese passport.