Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to treat its smaller neighbor as a sovereign nation

The future of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies with implications for security in the Middle East.

How refugee children in one of the most strife-torn parts of the world are eagerly embracing an unfamiliar sport

Lebanon’s president has told a top Iranian security official that Beirut rejects foreign intervention and wants stability for its people.

Hizbullah’s grip on the state has never looked weaker. Many of its leaders are dead. Its armoury is depleted. It has lost control of Beirut airport. Its land corridor to Iran via Syria and Iraq has been cut off. And its supporters are angry at its failure to rebuild what Israel destroyed last year.

The visit by Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s top security body, came as the Lebanese government moves to disarm Hezbollah, the militant group that has long been Tehran’s most powerful regional ally.

TEHRAN - In an interview with Mojtaba Amani, the Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Jam-e-Jam examined the significance of the trip of Dr. Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council,