1+ week, 3+ day ago   (534+ words) BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Israel said Thursday it decided to release five Lebanese it captured during the war in southern Lebanon in exchange for Beirut's recent assistance in efforts to locate and return the remains of Lebanese Jewish community figures…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (513+ words) BEIRUT, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Monday that Lebanon's stability is essential to Europe's, calling for the full implementation "without selectivity" of the U.S.-brokered framework agreement reached last June to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (513+ words) BEIRUT, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Monday that Lebanon's stability is essential to Europe's, calling for the full implementation "without selectivity" of the U.S.-brokered framework agreement reached last June to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (365+ words) Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A federal judge in California on Friday ruled that the Trump administration violated the Constitution's First and Fifth Amendments when it sought to deport international students critical of Israel. Judge Noël Wise, of the Northern District of California,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (434+ words) Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Treasury issued sanctions Wednesday against British-based direct action group Palestine Action and two other organizations it called "violent far-left terrorist networks." The treasury declared Palestine Action a "specially designated global terrorist," meaning that it can freeze the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (699+ words) Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The United States on Tuesday sanctioned two senior officials of the International Criminal Court, as the Trump administration cracks down on the global tribunal it calls a threat to U.S. sovereignty. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the rest…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1119+ words) BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Lebanese, exhausted by decades of armed conflict that reached an unprecedented peak in intensity, casualties, and destruction during the recent Israel-Hezbollah war, increasingly want an end to hostilities, but they remain divided -- as they often are…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (494+ words) BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem lashed out at the Lebanese officials Friday for accepting the June 26 U.S.-brokered framework agreement with Israel and failing to secure any gains after seven rounds of negotiations. He called for an…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (497+ words) BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem lashed out at the Lebanese officials Friday for accepting the June 26 U.S.-brokered framework agreement with Israel and failing to secure any gains after seven rounds of negotiations. He called for an…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (1089+ words) BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Relations between Lebanon and Turkey recently underwent a significant shift, driven by the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, Iran's reduced influence, growing challenges posed by Israel and other major regional developments, Lebanese and Turkish…...