By Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon A Trump administration envoy to the Middle East pressed Lebanon’s new leaders on Friday to ensure that Hezbollah does not become part of the ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 8 (UPI) --Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Saturday formed a new cabinet made up of specialized and clean-handed ministers, ending past dominance by Hezbollah and its ...

New PM says will financial reform, reconstruction are priorities Cabinet formed after more than three weeks of talks Washington had pushed back against Hezbollah influence BEIRUT, Feb 8 (Reuters ...

Lebanon formed a new government on Saturday, following unusually direct U.S. intervention in the process and in a step intended to bring the country closer to accessing reconstruction funds ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new prime minister on Saturday formed the country’s first full-fledged government since 2022. President Joseph Aoun announced in a statement that he had accepted the ...

The unusually direct U.S. intervention in Lebanon's sectarian politics appears aimed at capitalizing on shifts in the power balance in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, with Iran-backed Hezbollah ...

KUALA LUMPUR: As widely expected, Bank Negara maintained the status quo on the overnight policy rate (OPR) at the conclusion of its two-day monetary policy meeting. In a statement issued today ...

Lebanon’s new president has demanded that Israel must withdraw from his country’s south by the January 26 deadline agreed in last year’s Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire as he met the United ...

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has named Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem as his “representative” in Lebanon, Iranian media reported today. “The leader of the revolution in a ...

Lebanon elected General Joseph Aoun, the head of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), as president earlier this month, ending a more than two-year presidential vacuum. Just days later, Nawaf Salam ...

France’s Emmanuel Macron is the first foreign head of state to visit Beirut since Joseph Aoun was elected as Lebanon’s president. French President Emmanuel Macron, left, meets his Lebanese ...

This may in turn convince Bank Negara to raise the benchmark overnight policy rate (OPR) by 25 basis points to 3.25%.The central bank has maintained a “neutral” stance on the OPR since May ...