Michel Suleiman

The U.S. government believes Israel has conducted an airstrike inside Syria, two unnamed officials were reported as saying late Friday. U.S. and other Western intelligence agencies suspect that Israeli aircraft probably struck targets Thursday or...

BEIRUT -- Lebanon’s political blocs united behind a compromise choice for prime minister Saturday, two weeks after his predecessor quit office under the cloud of the civil war in neighboring Syria.  Tammam Salam, endorsed nearly unanimously by the...

BEIRUT -- Amid dire warnings that funds are running low to care for victims of the Syrian conflict, the United Nations said Wednesday that donors had pledged about $1.5 billion to help war-battered Syrians, exceeding the U.N.’s target appeal....

The leader of a prominent Lebanese political party called Friday for declaring a state of emergency in his country as the Syrian conflict continued to spill over into Lebanon....

BEIRUT –- Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said he would not resign Saturday, a day after a car bomb killed the country’s intelligence chief and raised fears that Syria’s conflict was spilling into Lebanon. Mikati in a televised news...

Violent clashes apparently linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria broke out overnight in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, leaving at least four people dead, including a soldier, resident said Sunday....

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned of “a dangerous trajectory with potential ramifications for the entire region” in his remarks during the opening session of the annual Arab Summit. Syria is one of the main issues to be...

Zeid Hamdan, 35, singer, composer and producer in the Lebanese band Zeid and the Wings was briefly imprisoned Wednesday morning for defaming Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in his single "General Suleiman." Before Suleiman was elected as President of...