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Spain's King Felipe VI called for "peace and harmony" in Lebanon on a visit that will take him to the country's troubled border.

• 08 апреля 2015, 15:41

Miss Universe contestants are keen to proclaim their desire for world peace, but this year's Miss Lebanon has declared war.

• 19 января 2015, 12:12

Lebanon's Foreign Minister urged the international community to present a "common front" against Islamic State.

• 11 сентября 2014, 12:51

The Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan will begin on Monday in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring states.

• 28 июля 2014, 16:25

A rocket fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early Friday, causing troops to hit back with artillery fire over the border, the Israeli army said.

• 11 июля 2014, 13:37

Kazakhstan will render $2 million worth of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan this year.

• 20 мая 2014, 13:29

Lebanese politician and former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora named Kazakhstan a prime example for other Muslim countries in his letter to President Nazarbayev.

• 03 апреля 2014, 22:48

The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing war in their country has surpassed one million, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday.

• 03 апреля 2014, 12:52

Israel launched air raids against Syrian army positions early Wednesday and issued a stark warning to Damascus just hours after a bomb on the occupied Golan Heights wounded four of its soldiers.

• 19 марта 2014, 17:24

The government of the Marshall Islands on Tuesday defeated a motion of no confidence brought after it nominated a former Lebanese general -- a suspect in a deadly bombing -- as its ambassador to UNESCO.

• 18 марта 2014, 16:27

Syrian regime forces were Monday readying an assault on the last rebel-held areas in the Qalamoun mountains, strategically located on the Lebanese border, after overrunning key opposition bastion Yabrud.

• 17 марта 2014, 17:28

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, who led the regime's negotiating team at failed peace talks this year, underwent a successful heart operation in neighbouring Lebanon on Friday, Syrian television reported.

• 15 марта 2014, 14:43

The chief of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed on Sunday that the group would prevail against extremists fighting in neighbouring Syria.

• 17 февраля 2014, 18:51

A powerful car bomb explosion killed at least three people and wounded 20 Thursday in downtown Hermel, a stronghold of Lebanon's Hezbollah near the border with Syria.

• 16 января 2014, 14:49

Donors gathered in Kuwait Wednesday in a major fundraising drive for 13 million Syrians affected by war following a record UN appeal for $6.5 billion.

• 15 января 2014, 18:51

A decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest in north Lebanon's majority Sunni city of Tripoli was torched late Friday, a day after a sectarian scuffle, a security source said.

• 05 января 2014, 18:00

Hezbollah on Wednesday said one of its leaders had been assassinated near Beirut and accused Israel, the Lebanese Shiite movement's arch-foe, of being behind the killing.

• 05 декабря 2013, 10:00

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• 04 декабря 2013, 13:55

International aid agency Oxfam on Tuesday launched a "12 Days of Giving" appeal to help destitute Syrian refugee families in Jordan and Lebanon survive the region's harsh winter months.

• 03 декабря 2013, 13:33

Desperate Syrian refugee families in Lebanon are slipping further into debt and poverty, affecting their children's education and their dignity, an international aid agency said Thursday.

• 21 ноября 2013, 16:00