With faint hopes for ending the war in Gaza before President Biden leaves office, U.S. officials have turned their focus to Lebanon, where they are scrambling to strike a cease-fire deal to end ...

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 ...

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FRANCE’S IMPERIAL tragedy began even before its revolution, when it lost the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). “After us, the deluge,” said Louis XV after having lost in that conflict much of ...

FRANCE’S IMPERIAL tragedy began even before its revolution, when it lost the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). “After us, the deluge,” said Louis XV after having lost in that conflict much of ...

Shortly before, Macron strolled ... France administered Lebanon for two decades after World War I, and the two countries have maintained close relations even since Lebanon's independence in 1943.

With its high literacy rate and traditional mercantile culture, Lebanon has been an important commercial hub for the Middle East. It has also often been at the centre of Middle Eastern conflicts ...

Before traveling to Israel, Hochstein had voiced optimism to reporters that a deal was progressing. Biden described the cease-fire as a permanent cessation of fighting, starting at 4 a.m. Lebanon ...

On Monday, Jean-Noel Barrot, France's foreign affairs minister, became the first representative of a Western nation to visit Lebanon since Israel began its bombing campaign and issued evacuation ...

AFP, Friday 17 Jan 2025. France's President Emmanuel Macron was in Lebanon on Friday for a visit to meet his newly-elected counterpart and offer support to leaders seeking to open a new chapter in ...

Provides an overview of Lebanon, including key dates and facts about this Middle Eastern country.