The migrant labour system which supports these conditions is known as kafala and is widespread across Middle East and Gulf ...

Clearing debris in Beirut after a strike in October. The World Bank estimates that Lebanon needs a total of $11 billion for reconstruction after the war.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New ...

Israel struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon Saturday after the terror group fired a half dozen rockets at a border town in the Jewish state in a “a blatant ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, killing six people including a child, in the heaviest exchange of fire since its ceasefire with ...

Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit south Lebanon this morning after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fired from across the border, endangering a shaky truce that ended a year-long war ...

Israel struck Lebanon in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, killing two, including a child, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Beyond its borders, Israel has resumed fighting on four fronts — in Gaza, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and Yemen. And internally, Israel’s citizens have returned to the bitter domestic ...

The fresh escalation, which has again brought the Middle East to a boil, came after rockets were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel. Listen to Story Israel retaliates with airstrikes after ...