BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 14 (UPI) --Normalizing ties with Lebanon has emerged as Israel's new emphasis after it greatly weakened Iran-backed Hezbollah during a devastating war, raising concerns over ...

US aims to curb Hezbollah influence in Lebanon financial system Candidates include asset management heads, IMF official Reforms needed for IMF talks and reconstruction support BEIRUT/WASHINGTON ...

A doctor and professor was deported after she returned from a trip to Lebanon despite having a valid U.S. visa, according to a court petition filed on her behalf. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, an assistant ...

Lebanon’s new government has won a confidence vote in parliament, following a speech by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam promising to push for economic reforms and to start negotiations with the ...

Nada Mohammed, who crossed into Lebanon on Sunday, said her village near the border, Karto, was woken up by a phone call at 4 a.m. from relatives telling her the militants had arrived in the ...

Hezbollah, designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., has long operated as a vast state-within-a-state in Lebanon, supplying jobs and social services to members. It also pays relatives of ...

A Brown University assistant professor and doctor was deported over the weekend from Boston to Lebanon after federal agents found photos of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s ...

Dr. Rasha Alawieh works at Brown Medicine and Rhode Island Hospital, and she had secured an H-1B visa, her lawyer said PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island doctor who had traveled to Lebanon to see her ...

But she was put on a flight to Paris, presumably on her way to Lebanon. In a second order filed Sunday morning, the judge said there was reason to believe U.S. Customs and Border Protection had ...

Israeli fighter jets launched air strikes across Lebanon on Sunday ahead of the funeral of former Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine. Hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah ...

Lebanon is preparing for the burial of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli air strike. The country is expected to come to a halt for a ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s paramilitary Hezbollah group is preparing for a massive funeral for slain leader Hassan Nasrallah this weekend, more than five months after his killing in an Israeli strike.