News: Lebanon

We have started to collect the most important news related to Lebanon in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Lebanon: news

Italian reporter disappears in Syria

Monday, April 29th 2013, 21:59
related countries: Italy, Syria

A war correspondent for Italy's La Stampa newspaper has been missing for 20 days since crossing into Syria from Lebanon, the paper says.
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Israel 'shoots down Lebanon drone'

Thursday, April 25th 2013, 15:04
related countries: Israel

Israel says one of its fighter jets has shot down an unmanned aircraft sent from Lebanon into Israeli airspace.
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon fuel tensions

Tuesday, April 9th 2013, 8:11
related countries: Syria

Tensions and hostility surround Syrian refugees in Lebanon
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Lebanon nominates new prime minister

Saturday, April 6th 2013, 13:23

Prominent Sunni politician Tamam Salam is nominated to become Lebanon's next prime minister, ending a dangerous two-week power vacuum.
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Singapore probes football officials

Thursday, April 4th 2013, 5:03
related countries: Singapore

Singapore's anti corruption agency, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB), says it is investigating three Lebanese football officials.
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Syrian 'air strike inside Lebanon'

Wednesday, April 3rd 2013, 13:05
related countries: Syria

A Syrian helicopter has crossed into Lebanon and fired two rockets near a town home to thousands of Syrian refugees, reports say.
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VIDEO: Syrian refugees: Lebanon struggles

Tuesday, April 2nd 2013, 10:44
related countries: Syria

Lebanon is struggling to cope with the estimated 400,000 Syrian refugees that have crossed
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Cyprus jails Hezbollah operative

Thursday, March 28th 2013, 18:05
related countries: Cyprus, Israel

A Cypriot court jails a member of the Lebanese militant Shia movement Hezbollah for three years for plotting to attack Israeli targets there.
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Lebanon's PM Mikati steps down

Friday, March 22nd 2013, 20:00
related countries: Syria

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati announces the resignation of his entire government, divided over planned elections and the unrest in Syria.
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Saudi Arabia arrests 18 for spying

Tuesday, March 19th 2013, 20:03
related countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia arrests an Iranian, a Lebanese and 16 Saudis accused of being part of a "spying cell for a state", officials say.
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Hezbollah 'attacked Syrian villages'

Monday, February 18th 2013, 15:10
related countries: Syria

Syrian rebels and opposition leaders have accused the Lebanese militant Shia group Hezbollah of attacking three villages in a big operation inside Syria.
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Funeral for Iran Revolutionary Guard

Thursday, February 14th 2013, 22:53
related countries: Iran, Syria
related places: Tehran

A funeral is held in Tehran for Gen Hassan Shateri, a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard recently killed while travelling from Syria to Lebanon.
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Neighbours at war in Lebanon's divided city of Tripoli

Wednesday, February 6th 2013, 17:31
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

Lebanon hosts replica of Syrian civil war
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VIDEO: Bulgaria bus bomb 'Hezbollah attack'

Tuesday, February 5th 2013, 21:04
related countries: Bulgaria

A bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a driver in Bulgaria was most likely the work of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants, Bulgarian officials say.
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Bulgaria bomb 'work of Hezbollah'

Tuesday, February 5th 2013, 17:57
related countries: Bulgaria

Bulgaria blames Hezbollah for killing five Israelis and a bus driver in 2012, prompting the US and Israel to call for action against the Lebanese group.
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Syria 'confirms' Israeli strike

Thursday, January 31st 2013, 6:18
related countries: Israel, Syria

Syria's military says Israeli jets carried out an air strike on its territory, but denies reports that a convoy of weapons bound for Lebanon was hit.
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Russians flee Syria via Beirut

Wednesday, January 23rd 2013, 2:59
related countries: Russia, Syria
related places: Beirut

Scores of Russians are flown home after fleeing the violence in Syria - but Russia insists it is not the start of a mass evacuation.
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VIDEO: Russians flee Syrian via Beirut

Tuesday, January 22nd 2013, 17:21
related countries: Syria
related places: Beirut

Buses carrying the Russians have crossed the Lebanese border heading for Beirut airport
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Syria suicide bomb 'kills dozens'

Monday, January 21st 2013, 22:37
related countries: Russia, Syria
related places: Beirut

A suicide bomb in central Syria kills many people, reports say, as Russia prepares to airlift its nationals fleeing the conflict.
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VIDEO: Four die as Lebanon hit by snow

Wednesday, January 9th 2013, 12:13

Four people in Lebanon have died as a snow storm and heavy rains hit parts of the country. Officials say the country is facing the worst weather conditions in a decade.
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Lebanese town drawn into Syria war

Thursday, December 20th 2012, 13:21
related countries: Syria

Life in Lebanese border town shelled and shot at from Syria
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Wounded minister 'leaves Syria'

Wednesday, December 19th 2012, 23:12
related countries: Syria
related places: Damascus

Syria's interior minister is admitted to hospital in Lebanon after being wounded in a bombing in Damascus, reports say.
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Neither side can win - Syria VP

Monday, December 17th 2012, 17:00
related countries: Syria

Syrian Vice-President Farouq al-Sharaa tells a Lebanese newspaper neither the government's forces nor the rebels can win the 21-month-old conflict.
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VIDEO: Struggle for Syria's young refugees

Wednesday, December 12th 2012, 18:42
related countries: Syria

The BBC's Fergal Keane has travelled to Lebanon to meet Syrian refugees who have risked everything to escape.
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Uprooted Syrians dream of returning home

Wednesday, December 12th 2012, 9:31
related countries: Syria

Syrian refugees in Lebanon dream of returning home
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VIDEO: Postcards from the Arab uprisings 3

Wednesday, December 12th 2012, 3:11
related countries: Egypt

In the third of a series of video postcards, people in Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt talk about the effect the Arab uprisings have had on where they live.
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VIDEO: Postcards from the Arab uprisings 2

Tuesday, December 11th 2012, 0:04
related countries: Egypt

In the second of a series of video postcards, young people in Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon talk about how they see the events that began two years ago.
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Deadly clashes in north Lebanon

Monday, December 10th 2012, 9:59
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

Six people are killed and at least 40 injured in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in clashes between opponents and supporters of Syria's president.
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VIDEO: Postcards from the Arab uprising

Monday, December 10th 2012, 0:08
related countries: Algeria

Two years on from the start of the Arab uprising, people in Lebanon, Jordan and Algeria talk about how the events have changed their countries.
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Kidnapped Waite returns to Beirut

Sunday, December 9th 2012, 8:51
related countries: Syria
related places: Beirut

Kidnap victim Terry Waite returns to Lebanon, 25 years after he was captured by Hezbollah militants, to ask for aid for Syria's Christian refugees.
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Syria's Orthodox patriarch dies

Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 12:51
related countries: Greece, Syria

The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Syria, Ignatius IV (Hazim), has died in neighbouring Lebanon at the age of 92, officials say.
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Lebanon holds 'plotting' Syrians

Saturday, November 24th 2012, 17:54

Five Syrians possessing explosives are arrested in Lebanon amid speculation they were planning an attack on Lebanese Shia Muslims.
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VIDEO: Hezbollah accused of backing Assad

Saturday, October 27th 2012, 8:00
related countries: Syria, United States

The US has accused pro-Syrian groups in Lebanon - including Hezbollah - of providing training, advice, and logistical support to the Syrian military, raising fears that the conflict could spread beyond Syria's borders.
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Lebanon's Hezbollah drawn into Syria conflict

Friday, October 26th 2012, 7:14
related countries: Syria

Lebanon's Hezbollah increasingly drawn into Syrian fighting
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US calls for Lebanon stability

Wednesday, October 24th 2012, 7:49
related countries: United States

The US voices its support for Lebanese efforts to form a new government as tensions escalate over the killing of a senior security official.
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VIDEO: Lebanon army deployed on streets

Tuesday, October 23rd 2012, 16:02
related countries: Libya
related places: Beirut, Tripoli

The army has been deployed on the streets of Lebanon's two biggest cities, Beirut and Tripoli, in efforts to bring calm after the death of a senior security official last week.
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Lebanon army deploys on streets

Tuesday, October 23rd 2012, 9:44
related countries: Libya
related places: Beirut, Tripoli

Troops are deployed in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and the northern city of Tripoli in a bid to calm tensions after clashes left seven dead.
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