Defaulted debt jumps more than 25% as investors hope protests will reduce support for groups such as Hizbollah ...

The protests in Iran could have a sweeping effect in a region already jolted by historic changes over the past year. Four CFR ...

Lebanese bonds have rallied to the highest since March 2020, when the country defaulted on some $30 billion of international ...

Lebanon's government has signed a deal with an international consortium for gas exploration in an offshore area bordering ...

BEIRUT — Chloe Abi Mansour has been attending Mass sporadically, though she still observes Lent and prays when she feels the need. It's not that she's lost her faith exactly. It's that the Catholic ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 5 (UPI) --Negotiations between Lebanon and Israel took a new turn this week, as the long-time enemies agreed to engage in direct, U.S.-backed talks -- their first in decades -- ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first official papal trip from Nov. 27–Dec. 2 to Turkey and Lebanon has just ended. The wide-ranging international visit included historic ecumenical encounters, deeply symbolic ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to prevail, as he ...

Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wraps up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Tuesday. He also met with relatives of some of the 218 ...