In Lebanon, the tiny Arab state and French Mandate on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the United Nations came up hard against two complex, trouble-packed problems: the demands of Arab peoples ...

Lebanon’s newly elected President Alfred Nacache, formerly Prime Minister under the French Mandate, set about choosing a Cabinet representing both Christians and Moslems.

Brigadier Longrigg, who has had long experience in the Middle East, here reviews the successes and failures of the French Mandate from 1920 to 1945. While praising the material achievements he finds ...

A TD who served as a peacekeeper in Lebanon has warned that a threatened discontinuation of our Unifil mandate would have a “catastrophic” impact on Ireland’s reputation.

The League of Nations formally allocated the French mandate for Syria in September 1923, but like the British mandate in Palestine and east of the River Jordan, the French had already been ...

The mandate over Lebanon was entrusted by the League to the French Government in 1920. The Jewish press in Palestine has so far abstained from commenting on the developments in Lebanon.

“The solution might be through extending the mandate for one last time, by one or a maximum of two years, during which the countries contributing troops to UNIFIL can vacate their positions and ...

United Nations peacekeepers were deployed to patrol Lebanon's southern border with Israel in 1978 after Israel invaded south Lebanon.

Israeli soldiers raised the Jewish state’s flag in Lebanon as part of its ongoing assault on Hezbollah terrorists. A trio of Israel Defense Forces members were seen planting the flag on top of ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -France and the United States are working to hammer out a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Lebanese Hezbollah militants and Israel to allow time for broader negotiations ...

Inside the French-language school she has run for years in east Lebanon, Sister Colette Moughabghab welcomed parents devastated by the news the century-old establishment was locking up its classrooms.