The unusually direct U.S. intervention in Lebanon's sectarian politics appears aimed at capitalizing on shifts in the power balance.

United Arab Emirates billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, who this week scrapped his investments in Lebanon, said the country was still not safe and that he had been threatened with being "slaughtered and killed" last year.

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law.

The election of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is a political breakthrough in Lebanon and a harbinger of what could happen in a country long dismissed as unsalvageable. Beirut’s new leadership reflects the aspiration of a majority of the Lebanese people to live in a functioning state free from the dual drivers of its failure: political violence and pervasive corruption.

Lebanese officials say firing by Israeli troops has killed two people and wounded 17 in the second day of deadly protests in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli military has set up roadblocks across border towns and roads in a strategic valley in southern Lebanon.

Three people were killed and 44 others injured by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese government said, as residents of villages near the border defied orders by Israel’s military not to return to their homes.

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has left behind lots of rubble. Some experts fear that much of it will be dumped into the environment without controls.

A woman was killed in a head-on crash with a tractor-trailer Thursday in Lebanon County, according to Troopers. Ann Guy, 60, of Brownstown, was driving her 2013 Chevy Sonic north when she didn’t take a curve,

According to Pennsylvania State Police, Ann Guy, 60, from Brownstown, died following a two-vehicle crash along State Route 501.

Chevy Sonic hit the Peterbilt head-on, then bounced off and hit a telephone pole with the rear of the vehicle.