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

VIDEO: Sabah, Lebanese singing legend, dies

Wednesday, November 26th 2014, 22:03

Lebanese singer and actress Sabah, one of the Arab world's best-known entertainers, has died aged 87.
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Lebanese diva Sabah dies, aged 87

Wednesday, November 26th 2014, 14:18

Lebanese singer and actress Sabah, popularly known as the "Diva of Music" in the Arab world, dies at the age of 87.
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VIDEO: Lebanese fear attacks from Syria

Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 13:35
related countries: Syria

There is a growing fear that the conflict in neighbouring Syria will spill over into Lebanon, and that has left some communities taking up arms themselves.
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Tense calm follows Tripoli fighting

Monday, October 27th 2014, 12:12
related countries: Libya
related places: Tripoli

A tense calm is reported in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli after days of deadly fighting between Sunni militants and government troops.
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Lebanon army steps up Tripoli battle

Sunday, October 26th 2014, 14:41
related countries: Libya
related places: Tripoli

The Lebanese army forces a retreat by Sunni militants linked to Islamic State and al-Qaeda, on a third day of fighting in the second city Tripoli.
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Clashes hit historic Lebanese market

Saturday, October 25th 2014, 22:40
related countries: Libya
related places: Tripoli

At least six Lebanese soldiers have died in clashes with Islamist gunmen at a historic market in the northern town of Tripoli, the army says.
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New clashes on Syria-Lebanon border

Sunday, October 5th 2014, 21:52
related countries: Syria

There have been fierce clashes in eastern Lebanon between Sunni Islamist militants and members of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah.
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Lebanon 'imposes curfews on Syrians'

Friday, October 3rd 2014, 17:43
related countries: Syria

Lebanese towns and villages are increasingly imposing curfews on Syrian refugees, restricting their movements, Human Rights Watch says.
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Lebanon raids Arsal refugee camps

Thursday, September 25th 2014, 19:13
related countries: Syria

At least one person was killed and two wounded during a search for militants at refugee camps near Lebanon's border with Syria, the Lebanese army says.
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Blast hits Hezbollah checkpoint

Saturday, September 20th 2014, 21:40

A suicide blast has targeted a checkpoint manned by the Shia Hezbollah group in eastern Lebanon, killing three people, state media says.
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VIDEO: Empty bucket challenge hits Lebanon

Wednesday, September 10th 2014, 23:06

With water shortages a part of daily life, campaigners in Lebanon have started an alternative to the ice bucket challenge.
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Is Islamic State heading for Lebanon?

Tuesday, September 9th 2014, 16:25

Islamic State threat ups the tension in a divided Lebanon
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Lebanese soldier 'beheaded by IS'

Saturday, September 6th 2014, 22:29
related countries: Syria

A second Lebanese soldier seized by Islamic State militants near the border with Syria last month is reported to have been beheaded.
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Lebanon army receives soldier's body

Monday, September 1st 2014, 17:06

The Lebanese army receives the remains of a missing solider who is believed to have been beheaded by militants from Islamic State (IS).
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Syrian rebels 'leave Lebanese town'

Thursday, August 7th 2014, 17:13
related countries: Syria

Islamist rebels from Syria reportedly withdraw from the Lebanese border town of Arsal after days of fighting with the Lebanese army ended in a truce.
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France to speed up arms for Lebanon

Tuesday, August 5th 2014, 23:50
related countries: Syria

France says it will speed up a delivery of weapons to Lebanon, as clashes between the army and Syrian rebels continue despite a temporary truce.
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Thousands flee Lebanese border town

Monday, August 4th 2014, 12:01
related countries: Syria

Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees flee clashes between the Lebanese army and Syrian rebels who raided a border town.
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Troops killed in Lebanon border raid

Sunday, August 3rd 2014, 7:59
related countries: Syria

Eight Lebanese soldiers are killed in clashes with Syrian rebels who raided the border town of Arsal in Lebanon.
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Syrian rebels raid Lebanese town

Sunday, August 3rd 2014, 6:46
related countries: Syria

There are scenes of chaos as Islamist rebels from Syria raid a border town in Lebanon, killing members of the security forces and abducting others.
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Bulgaria names anti-Israeli bomber

Friday, July 18th 2014, 16:25
related countries: Bulgaria, France, Israel

A suicide bomber who killed five Israelis in Bulgaria in 2012 had dual Lebanese-French citizenship, investigators say.
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VIDEO: World Cup takes over Beirut streets

Saturday, July 12th 2014, 9:05
related places: Beirut

As the World Cup draws to a close, football fans in Lebanon have been enjoying the action - despite the fact that their country has not been involved in the tournament.
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VIDEO: Syrian refugees 'beaten in Lebanon'

Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 5:41
related countries: Syria

Lebanon's policy has been to allow all Syrians refuge within the country, but the BBC has spoken to one man who says he was mistreated by the Lebanese army.
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Suicide bomb hits Lebanese capital

Tuesday, June 24th 2014, 14:16
related places: Beirut

A suicide bomber blows up his car near a Lebanese army checkpoint in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut, killing a security officer.
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Lebanon deports Berlusconi ally

Friday, June 13th 2014, 9:16
related countries: Italy

A former business associate of Italy's ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi is extradited from Lebanon to serve a prison term for Mafia links.
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Syrian exiles in Lebanon voting frenzy

Friday, May 30th 2014, 12:12
related countries: Syria
related places: Beirut

Chaos as Syrian voters in Beirut face more than one choice
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Syria refugees vote in election

Wednesday, May 28th 2014, 18:45
related countries: Jordan, Syria

Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan are being given the chance to vote on Wednesday in the presidential election due to be held on 3 June.
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VIDEO: 'Rubbish' help for Syrian refugees

Tuesday, May 27th 2014, 5:12
related countries: Syria
related places: Beirut

Architecture students in Beirut are trying to help some of the Syrian refugees that have resorted to picking up the city's rubbish for recycling purposes, by designing more user-friendly carts.
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Syrian refugees 'lack medical care'

Wednesday, May 21st 2014, 1:18
related countries: Syria

Amnesty International says a shortfall in international support has left many Syrian refugees in Lebanon unable to access crucial medical care.
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Lebanese MPs fail to elect president

Wednesday, April 23rd 2014, 14:27

Members of Lebanon's parliament fail to elect a new president at the first attempt before Michel Suleiman's six-year term expires on 25 May.
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Lebanese journalists killed in Syria

Tuesday, April 15th 2014, 15:03
related countries: Syria

Funerals are to take place for three Lebanese journalists for the Hezbollah TV station al-Manar who were killed in Syria on Monday.
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Berlusconi ally arrested in Lebanon

Saturday, April 12th 2014, 20:36
related countries: Italy

A close associate of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is arrested in Lebanon, ahead of a verdict in his long-running trial.
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'Million Syria refugees' in Lebanon

Thursday, April 3rd 2014, 8:04
related countries: Syria

The number of refugees who have fled Syria and registered in Lebanon has surpassed the "devastating milestone" of one million, the UN says.
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Syrians fear permanent exile in Lebanon's camps

Thursday, April 3rd 2014, 1:56
related countries: Syria

Syrian refugees fear long wait in Lebanon's Palestinian camps
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VIDEO: Refugee: I'd live anywhere but here

Thursday, April 3rd 2014, 0:23
related countries: Syria

BBC News meets some of the Syrian refugees inside the Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon.
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Omar Bakri 'on the run' in Lebanon

Wednesday, April 2nd 2014, 10:14
related countries: Libya
related places: Tripoli

Cleric Omar Bakri Mohammad is on the run in Lebanon, officials say, after his house was raided as part of an operation to end the violence in Tripoli.
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Soldiers killed by Lebanon car bomb

Saturday, March 29th 2014, 19:58
related countries: Syria

A suicide car bomber attacks a Lebanese army checkpoint near the Syrian border, killing three soldiers and wounding four others, reports say.
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VIDEO: Syrian refugee crisis deepens

Thursday, March 27th 2014, 22:31
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

A Syrian woman is in serious condition after setting herself on fire outside the UNHCR offices in Tripoli in Lebanon, after trying and failing to get food aid several times from the UN.
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