Washington is pressuring top Lebanese officials not to allow Hezbollah or its allies to nominate the country's next finance minister, five people with knowledge of the matter said, in an attempt to limit the Iran-backed group's sway over the state.

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.

The Israeli government says its military will not withdraw from Lebanon by Sunday’s deadline, in violation of a deadline set in a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.

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.

The Lebanon County District Attorney provided a video of a suspect on a snowmobile chasing a red fox in Heidelberg Township on Jan. 20.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held his first conversation with General Joseph Aoun, Lebanon's newly elected president. Source: Zelenskyy on X (Twitter) Quote: "I held my first conversation with Lebanon’s President,

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

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

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.