BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 8 (UPI) --Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Saturday formed a new cabinet made up of specialized and clean-handed ministers, ending past dominance by Hezbollah and its ...

New PM says will financial reform, reconstruction are priorities Cabinet formed after more than three weeks of talks Washington had pushed back against Hezbollah influence BEIRUT, Feb 8 (Reuters ...

Lebanon formed a new government on Saturday, following unusually direct U.S. intervention in the process and in a step intended to bring the country closer to accessing reconstruction funds ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new prime minister on Saturday formed the country’s first full-fledged government since 2022. President Joseph Aoun announced in a statement that he had accepted the ...

The IDF also eliminated several Hezbollah terrorists in the area as part of ongoing operations in southern Lebanon. Telephone: *2421 * Extension 4 Jerusalem Post or 03-7619056 Fax: 03-5613699 E ...

Beirut, Lebanon – A new president. A new prime minister. And the sense that Hezbollah, arguably the most powerful group in the country, has been weakened. It has been a potentially ...

Lebanon elected General Joseph Aoun, the head of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), as president earlier this month, ending a more than two-year presidential vacuum. Just days later, Nawaf Salam ...

The unusually direct U.S. intervention in Lebanon's sectarian politics appears aimed at capitalizing on shifts in the power balance in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, with Iran-backed Hezbollah ...

Lebanon’s new president has demanded that Israel must withdraw from his country’s south by the January 26 deadline agreed in last year’s Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire as he met the United ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday on a trip aiming to demonstrate Paris's support for the country's new leadership as it faces the task of ...

BEIRUT — Despite a 60-day ceasefire with Hezbollah, the Israeli military advanced into dozens of new positions across southern Lebanon in the first 40 days of the deal, damaging or destroying ...