Beirut Travel News

First Investigating Judge in Beirut Ghassan Owaydat issued two arrest warrants on Monday against two suspects for being part of the Al-Qaeda inspired militant group Fatah al-Islam. Owaydat also postponed on Monday the questioning of Fadi Ghassan Ibrahim, known as...

The Lebanese military said it thwarted a militant attack on members of the U.N. peacekeeping mission deployed in the south of the country. Lebanese officials announced the arrest of four members of a cell carrying large quantities of explosives in...

Lebanon is like the neighbourhood beer barn that gives a homeowner so much grief. The rowdies inside – who from time to time spill out and trample your begonias – don’t seem to much like each other and they don’t...

In a letter to the U.S. secretary of state, 31 members of the U.S. House of Representatives worried Hezbollah may try to start a regional conflict from Lebanon. The Israeli military in November seized a vessel that intelligence officials believe...

The Lebanese army has thwarted an attack against the United Nations Interim Force in Southern Lebanon, the al-Manar network reported Sunday.   According to the report, Lebanese intelligence forces in the Lebanon Valley arrested four people in possession of large...

Friday that President Michel Sleiman plans in his upcoming visit to the United States to improve Lebanese-American relations, stress his country’s refusal to naturalize the Palestinian refugees and ensure that Lebanon is not used as a bargaining-chip in diplomatic negotiations....

A security source confirmed to NOW on Friday that Hosni al- Zeaiter, known to be “one of the biggest drug dealers in Lebanon,” was killed and his son injured during an exchange of gunfire between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)...

President Michel Sleiman arrived on Sunday to Chafik al-Wazzan Boulevard to take part in the Independence Day military parade. Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived just before him. Upon the president’s arrival, soldiers fired 21 welcoming shots...