Lebanese leader Pierre Gemayel (1905-1984) founded the Lebanese Phalanges, a political and military force which he led for almost 50 years. The Phalangist Party, geared toward Lebanese Christians, focused on the need for a strong Lebanese state....

Explosions tore through two buses traveling on a highway Tuesday near a mountain town northeast of Beirut, and dozens of people were either killed or wounded, the country's state-run news agency said.The news agency gave no exact figure on the number of dead. Arab media...

Lawmaker Walid Eido, killed Wednesday, is the seventh prominent anti-Syrian figure in Lebanon to be killed in a little more than two years. Here is a glance at recent attacks in Lebanon, most of them against opponents of Damascus:_ Feb. 14, 2005: Former Prime Minister...

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri until June 15, 2008.Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz told the council last week that the investigation into the killing of Hariri and 22 others in...

The U.N. Security Council has given a green light to U.N. investigators to help probe last week's killing of an anti-Syrian lawmaker in a massive car bombing in Beirut.Belgium's U.N. Ambassador Johan Verbeke, who is the current council president, asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a...