BEIRUT -- The World Bank will grant Lebanon a $250 million loan that will be used to help ease electricity cuts in the crisis-hit country, the country's finance ministry said Thursday.

Hezbollah hailed Pope Francis' "unequivocal positions calling for an end to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip." ...

The border area, especially near Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and Syria's Qusayr region, has long been a corridor for illicit trade, arms trafficking, and the movement of fighters — including ...

The once unthinkable disarmament of Hezbollah could finally be within reach, as the United States pushes Lebanon to act and applies pressure to the group's backer Iran over its nuclear programme ...