Lebanon News

Witnesses say kids were sitting on an interstate median Thursday afternoon after a Lafayette School Corporation bus carrying special needs kids crashed on I-65. According to dispatchers, an LSC school bus - the particular school is unknown at this point - crashed near the Whitestown exit on I-65, near mile marker 128.

Violence surged in the strategically important Syrian town of Qusayr on Sunday. Activists said the offensive marked some of the most intense fighting they've seen in the fiercely contested area near the Lebanese border.

The Syrian Army began deploying 'Tishreen' medium range ballistic missiles on May 19, targeting them on the city of Tel-Aviv in Israel .

Dozens of migrant domestic workers are being trafficked over the Lebanese border into Syria every month, despite the war raging there and official bans by Syria and several major source countries against bringing in new labor, officials from the Indonesian and Philippine embassies said Friday.

Cyprus on Friday got rid of limits on money transfers and withdrawals for international clients of another eight foreign banks doing business in the debt-laden country.

An exciting business year for Burger King Lebanon marked with an upbeat expansion plan in 2013; saw the prominent brand getting bigger everywhere in the country despite the volatile economic situation.

Alfa unrolled the country's first commercial 4G data service in certain areas of Beirut Wednesday and Lebanon's second mobile operator, touch, is set to follow suit next week.

US actress and UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie attends a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati along with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 12, 2012.

Lebanese members of the Syrian leader's Alawite sect fear their tiny community will be a casualty of the civil war raging in the neighboring country.

An agricultural and construction equipment company plans to boost its central Indiana operations with a $13 million expansion project.

Threats from Damascus and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to turn the Golan Heights into a "resistance front" against Israel could end nearly four decades of calm across the increasingly tense ceasefire line separating Israeli and Syrian forces.

"The claim that armed opposition to the government has begun only recently is a complete lie.

BEIRUT: More than 50 women are planning to run for the upcoming parliamentary polls, as activists are still campaigning for quota in both the Parliament and Cabinet.

This is the Ottawa firm that went bankrupt in January 2008 after Marlene and her husband, Roland Eid, transferred $1.7 million to a personal account and left for their native Lebanon.

Three months ago, I flew to Beirut to attend a landmark event for personal freedoms and human rights in the Arab world, an event that gives hope in coexistence at a time of sectarian strife in the Middle East, an event that announces a new relationship between citizen and state in Lebanon, where archaic institutional structures still dominate the ... (more)

Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Herve Ladsous is welcomed by a UNIFIL Nepalese peacekeeper at the start of his Blue Line tour.

After a 25-year legal battle, Canada has finally deported a Palestinian convicted of an attack on an Israeli airliner in 1968, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said on Monday.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh speak to Syrian refugees during their visit to the Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria September 11, 2012.

This undated handout picture courtesy of the British Health Protection Agency shows the Coronavirus seen under an electron miscroscope.

26, 2013 photo, Syrian singer Farah Youssef, performs during the Arab Idol Show broadcast by MBC Arabic satellite channel, in Zouk Mosbeh neighborhood, north of Beirut, Lebanon.