Lebanese Nationals

Western nations are ramping up contingency plans to evacuate citizens from Lebanon after a sharp escalation in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese armed movement Hezbollah, coupled with Iran's missile attack on Israel on Tuesday.

Israeli forces today began "ground raids" in southern Lebanese villages, targeting Hezbollah strongholds. As the Israeli invasion begins, the ghost of past incursions into the Levantine nation is still fresh in the minds of its citizens.

A senior official from the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has made a landmark trip to the United Arab Emirates to facilitate the release of more than a dozen Lebanese nationals detained there, four sources close to Hezbollah told Reuters.

At least five people were killed Saturday, four of them from the same family, in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Lebanon, the country's official National News Agency reported.

An Israeli shell killed the mayor of a Lebanese village on Monday, a relative and Lebanon's National News Agency said, as Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah kept up hostilities ignited by the war in Gaza.

The UN peacekeeping force patrolling the Lebanon-Israel border, UNIFIL, warned of a "very dangerous situation" after the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and the Israeli army traded fire on Friday.

The United Nations said it is "actively assisting" in the response to the horrific explosions that ripped through the port area of Beirut, as Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Lebanese people.

Lebanese police on Monday arrested a driver suspected of killing British embassy worker Rebecca Dykes after trying to rape her, according to officials and the national news agency.

Voting was deadlocked on Thursday at the UN in the election of World Court judges in which Dalveer Bhandari of India is facing a Lebanese diplomat in his re-election bid.

Union minister Sushma Swaraj today tweeted that two Indians have died in the terror attack at a nightclub in Istanbul in which 39 people died and 65 others were wounded. The attack came during a New Year's Eve party at a nightclub and the victims included at least 15 foreign nationals, a Turkish minister had said. Two Lebanese and five Saudi nation...

If the cuisine of a nation can be used to trace its cultural and political revolutions, Lebanon would be an ideal example to prove the point.

Lebanon observed a national day of mourning on Friday after two suicide bombs the day before killed 43 people in southern Beirut, in an act the United Nations condemned overnight as "despicable".

Lebanese authorities said on Saturday they had arrested two Lebanese nationals and a Syrian on allegations of spying for Israel.

As his family crammed alongside strangers into a small, exposed makeshift tent in Syria near the border with Turkey, Mohammed Musa slept outside in the mud through the first heavy rainfalls of autumn.

Two Israeli soldiers were wounded on Tuesday when a roadside bomb detonated near the Lebanese ceasefire line in an attack claimed by the Shiite movement Hezbollah.

Western nations are ramping up contingency plans to evacuate citizens from Lebanon after a sharp escalation in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese armed movement Hezbollah, coupled with Iran's missile attack on Israel on Tuesday.

Israeli forces today began "ground raids" in southern Lebanese villages, targeting Hezbollah strongholds. As the Israeli invasion begins, the ghost of past incursions into the Levantine nation is still fresh in the minds of its citizens.

A senior official from the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has made a landmark trip to the United Arab Emirates to facilitate the release of more than a dozen Lebanese nationals detained there, four sources close to Hezbollah told Reuters.

At least five people were killed Saturday, four of them from the same family, in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Lebanon, the country's official National News Agency reported.

An Israeli shell killed the mayor of a Lebanese village on Monday, a relative and Lebanon's National News Agency said, as Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah kept up hostilities ignited by the war in Gaza.

The UN peacekeeping force patrolling the Lebanon-Israel border, UNIFIL, warned of a "very dangerous situation" after the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and the Israeli army traded fire on Friday.

The United Nations said it is "actively assisting" in the response to the horrific explosions that ripped through the port area of Beirut, as Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Lebanese people.

Lebanese police on Monday arrested a driver suspected of killing British embassy worker Rebecca Dykes after trying to rape her, according to officials and the national news agency.

Voting was deadlocked on Thursday at the UN in the election of World Court judges in which Dalveer Bhandari of India is facing a Lebanese diplomat in his re-election bid.

Union minister Sushma Swaraj today tweeted that two Indians have died in the terror attack at a nightclub in Istanbul in which 39 people died and 65 others were wounded. The attack came during a New Year's Eve party at a nightclub and the victims included at least 15 foreign nationals, a Turkish minister had said. Two Lebanese and five Saudi nation...

If the cuisine of a nation can be used to trace its cultural and political revolutions, Lebanon would be an ideal example to prove the point.

Lebanon observed a national day of mourning on Friday after two suicide bombs the day before killed 43 people in southern Beirut, in an act the United Nations condemned overnight as "despicable".

Lebanese authorities said on Saturday they had arrested two Lebanese nationals and a Syrian on allegations of spying for Israel.

As his family crammed alongside strangers into a small, exposed makeshift tent in Syria near the border with Turkey, Mohammed Musa slept outside in the mud through the first heavy rainfalls of autumn.

Two Israeli soldiers were wounded on Tuesday when a roadside bomb detonated near the Lebanese ceasefire line in an attack claimed by the Shiite movement Hezbollah.