Lebanon Located in the Middle East, Lebanon is a small country with an area of 10,452 square kilometers (4,035 square miles). Beirut is the capital city. Syria borders it to the north and the east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the...

Republic of Lebanon Al-Jumhuriyah al-Lubnaniyah CAPITAL: Beirut (Bayrut) FLAG: The national flag, introduced in 1943, consists of two horizontal red stripes separated by a white stripe which is twice as wide; at the center, in green and brown, is a...

Lebanon POPULATION 3,677,780 SHIITE MUSLIM 41 percent SUNNI MUSLIM 27 percent MARONITE 16 percent DRUZE 7 percent GREEK ORTHODOX 5 percent GREEK CATHOLIC 3 percent OTHER 1 percent Country Overview Introduction The Lebanese Republic, located on the...

Lebanon (IPA: /ˈlɛbənɒn/) (Arabic: لبنان Lubnān; French: Liban), officially the Republic of Lebanon[2] or Lebanese Republic[3] (الجمهورية اللبنانية), La République Libanaise , is a small, mostly mountainous country in the...

Mideast: A U.N. complicit in the violence that afflicts Lebanon got one right by approving a tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of its former prime minister. It gives the beleaguered democracy hope.As the Lebanese Army continued to battle the terrorist group Fatah al-Islam,...

The army clashed with al-Qaida-linked Islamic fighters in a Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday, breaking a weeklong truce. Lebanon's government said it's determined to defeat the militants but remains willing to give mediation a chance.Lebanese army artillery pounded positions on the northern edge of the Nahr...

The Hezbollah-led opposition called Thursday on its supporters to take to the streets this weekend in a massive show of force, stepping up the pressure on the U.S.-backed government that has vowed not to give in to protesters.The move came as street demonstrations by Hezbollah...

Spanish peacekeepers policing the Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire took up combat positions after angry residents confronted them over their presence in a southern Lebanese village, a newspaper reported Thursday.A spokesman for the peacekeepers said there were no clashes and no one was hurt in the incident Wednesday...