The latest exchange of insults follows a crisis between Lebanon and Gulf Arab states over the war in Yemen.

The midmarket rate for the Lebanese pound is around 1,500 to the dollar, but the reality on the ground is that the black-market rate of 30,000 prevails.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati has said the Hezbollah allegations do not reflect the official position of Lebanon.

President Michel Aoun has called for national dialogue on matters including a defense strategy.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Sunday it struck a Huthi rebel camp in the capital Sanaa, as it intensified an aerial bombing campaign against the Iran-backed insurgents. The coalition, which backs Yemen's internationally recognized government against the Huthis in a civil war, said it destroyed weapons storehouses in...

Israeli strikes targeting a part of Syria where fighters loyal to Lebanon's Hezbollah are based killed five people Wednesday, a war monitor said. The official Syrian news agency SANA, citing a military official, had reported earlier that two civilians had been killed.

Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi triggered the dispute with an interview recorded in August and aired last week. In it, he said that Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels were "defending themselves... against an external aggression". Lebanon on Monday called for talks with Saudi Arabia to ease the dispute.

The decision closely mirrored that of Saudi Arabia, which too ordered the Lebanese ambassador to its country to return home.

The sanctions boosted pressure on Iran ahead of the reopening of negotiations on the country's nuclear program. The sanctions came nine days after an attack on a US military base in Al-Tanf in Syria that involved drones, and two days after Iran said it would return to talks to revive...

Hundreds of his supporters gathered in his mountain bastion and marched in a show of support. Geagea had warned last week he would ignore the summons if his rival, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was not called in for questioning too.

Seven people were killed as snipers opened fire on a rally by Hezbollah, the powerful group allied with Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran, and fellow Shiite movement Amal as they protested against a judge investigating last year's devastating port blast.

Heavy fighting claimed at least six lives and left dozens wounded in Lebanon's capital Thursday as an escalation of tensions around last year's massive portside explosion turned parts of Beirut into a war-zone.

Heavy fire rang out as ambulances rushed the wounded through the deserted streets, a few blocks from the Palace of Justice, where hundreds of black-clad protesters had gathered moments earlier to demand Tarek Bitar's removal.

It is the second time Bitar has had to suspend the investigation in the face of lawsuits filed by former ministers he had summoned on suspicion of negligence.

Iran is set to deliver more fuel in the coming days to Lebanon for distribution by the Shiite movement.

Lebanon has been without a government for more than a year, and the main priority of Prime Minister Najib Mikati's newly-selected cabinet would be to guarantee petrol and electricity supplies and curb other shortages that are crippling the country.

BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said that the first delivery of Iranian fuel would arrive Thursday in Lebanon to help ease dire shortages in the embattled country. Lebanon is facing one of its worst-ever economic crises, with more than three out of four Lebanese considered to be under the...

The move, prohibited by US sanctions on Iran's oil industry, could drag Lebanon into the covert naval war between Tehran and Israel

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah described the air strikes this week as a 'very dangerous development'