The U.S. special envoy to Lebanon says his team will discuss the long-term cessation of hostilities with Israel, after Beirut ...

Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...

How refugee children in one of the most strife-torn parts of the world are eagerly embracing an unfamiliar sport ...

A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in Syria toppled longtime autocrat Bashar Assad and brought a new gov ...

Syrian refugees, who fled to Lebanon more than a decade ago to escape war, violence and persecution, have slowly begun to return, encouraged by better conditions after President Bashar Assad's ouster.

Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious ...

Syrian border amid reports of forces being amassed in both countries. Stoking the tensions were Lebanese media circulating a document from the Army Command that spoke of extremists gathering along the ...

BEIRUT: Armed groups attacked personnel from Syria's internal security forces in Sweida, killing one member and wounding others, and fired shells at several villages in the violence-hit southern ...

Mohammed Wishah and his bodyguard killed in Thursday strike; separately, Friday drone attack in south kills Hezbollah ...

Syria is being rocked by a fresh wave of deadly sectarian violence, highlighting its fragile security landscape.

Syria's fortunes in Lebanon began to unravel in September when Damascus orchestrated a three-year extension of President Emile Lahoud's term. Hariri's assassination a bombing Syria's opponents blamed ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial incentives, after Syria's new rulers said all citizens ...