Lebanon

Egypt and Jordan reject Trump’s proposal to transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to their territory

Hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag will be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners

Nawaf Salam seen as a man of change who could secure reforms required for the country to access $20bn in international funds to rebuild its shattered economy and war-ravaged regions

UN official calls on new president to appoint a prime minister, after two years of caretaker cabinet

Israel cites Hizbullah’s failure to withdraw north of the Litani river while Iran-backed group alleges IDF in breach of 60-day deadline

A UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report found children aged five-nine accounted for the largest number of dead in Israel’s military onslaught, followed by 10-14 year olds and then babies and children aged 0-four

Between October 2023 and the November 2024 ceasefire, Israeli attacks in Lebanon claimed at least 2,961 lives, including 248 children

Trump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayed

Strikes near Roman, Crusader and Ottoman sites flattened some and left others with ‘invisible’ damage

In the space of a single year, the Islamic Republic of Iran effectively lost three of the key elements in its so-called axis of resistance

As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards

Opening exhibition branch at former Israeli embassy would be ‘political statement’, Faisel Saleh says

Decades of brutal dictatorship in Syria came to a remarkably swift end when Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and opposition forces took control of Damascus

Solicitor for family says full report should be released to them into death of soldier in Lebanon two years ago

Yemen-based Houthis are the only full-strength survivors of Tehran’s axis of resistance

Binyamin Netanyahu says IDF moves to ensure ‘no hostile force embeds itself next to Israel’s border’

Anarchy could spill over into neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan and destabilise the eastern Arab world

Ceasefire negotiations resume as 32 Gaza residents are killed

There are signs of mass return, of cleaning and clearing; a sense of reclamation, but also of grief

When the war started and the clubs closed, Raghed Waked turned his focus to the conflict in Lebanon