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Safaa Haidous, carries her daughter Yara, 4, as she speaks with her husband Rawad Srour, who is stands on the roof of their family destroyed house, as they collect the remains of their belongings after they returned to Hanouiyeh village, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024 following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect on Wednesday.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, but tense ceasefire holds
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says Israeli jets have launched an airstrike over a southern Lebanese border village, while troops shelled other border towns and villages still under Israeli control.
 
A man screams in front a fire erupting inside a computer shop hit during an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
An Israeli strike in Beirut kills Hezbollah’s spokesman, while a strike in Gaza kills at least 30
A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut has killed the chief spokesman for the Hezbollah militant group. It was the latest in targeted killings of senior Hezbollah officials.
 
Rescue workers use excavators to remove the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit Tuesday night in an Israeli airstrike, as they search for victims in Barja, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Rescuers pull 30 bodies from a building in central Lebanon hit in an Israeli strike
An Israeli airstrike has killed at least 30 people in central Lebanon, as the war between Israel and Hezbollah continues with no signs of easing. The strike took place late on Tuesday night.
 
Displaced children, who fled Baalbek city and the nearby towns of Douris and Ain Bourday with their families amid the ongoing Hezbollah-Israel war, are reflected in a mirror inside a school being used as a shelter, in Deir Al-Ahmar, east Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 7 in Israel as US officials try to push for cease-fires
Israeli authorities say rocket barrages fired from Lebanon have killed four Thai agricultural workers and three Israelis in northern Israel in the deadliest cross-border strikes from the country since Israel launched its ground invasion.
 
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Israel extends evacuation warnings in Lebanon, signaling a wider offensive
The Israeli military has warned people to evacuate a city and other communities in southern Lebanon that are north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone.
 
Cars sit in traffic as people flee the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, in Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Thousands flee southern Lebanon in search of safety and shelter
Thousands of people are fleeing south Lebanon as Israel carries out its deadliest bombardment in the country since its war with Hezbollah in 2006.
 
FILE - Riad Salameh, Lebanon's Central Bank governor, attends a news conference, in Beirut, on Nov. 11, 2019. Lebanon charged its embattled former central bank governor Wednesday with the embezzlement of $42 million, three judicial officials told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
Former Lebanon central bank chief to remain in jail while facing corruption charges
A Lebanese judge has ruled that the country’s former central bank chief will remain in jail while facing charges of embezzling tens of millions of dollars from state coffers.
 
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib, right, shakes hands with Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Micheal Martin after their meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Ireland’s top diplomat concerned over slow pace of justice in peacekeeper’s killing in Lebanon
Ireland’s top diplomat has expressed concerns about the slow progress of criminal proceedings against several Lebanese men charged with the killing of an Irish peacekeeper in Lebanon.
 
A Syrian refugee woman carries her child as she prepares to go back home to Syria as part of a voluntary return, in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Hundreds of Syrians refugees left a remote northeastern Lebanese town back to Syria in a convoy, amid a surge in anti-refugee sentiment in the small, crisis-hit country. Lebanese officials for years has urged the international community to resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Hundreds of Syrian refugees head home as anti-refugee sentiment surges in Lebanon
More than 300 Syrians refugees are heading back home from northeastern Lebanon to an uncertain future in Syria as anti-refugee sentiment is surging in crisis-hit Lebanon.
 
Mourners carry the coffin of Saleh Arouri, one of the top Hamas commanders, who was killed in an apparent Israeli strike Tuesday, as they pass in front of a graffiti that shows late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, during his funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Thousands attend the funeral of a top Hamas official killed in an apparent Israeli strike in Beirut
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Beirut for the funeral of Saleh Arouri, top commander of militant Palestinian group Hamas, who was killed earlier this week in an apparent Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital.
 
Investigators stand on an apartment building where an apparent Israeli strike Tuesday killed top Hamas political leader Saleh Arouri, in the southern suburb of Beirut that is a Hezbollah stronghold, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. The apparent Israeli strike that killed Hamas' No. 2 political leader, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israel's war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israel’s Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strike
The chief of Israel’s Mossad has vowed the intelligence agency will hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no matter where they are.
 
A Lebanese-Armenian protester clashes with riot police near the Azerbaijani Embassy, during a protest to denounce the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from the separatist Armenian authorities in the enclave, in Ain Aar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. A 24-hour Azerbaijani blitz last week forced Armenian separatist authorities to sit down for talks on Nagorno-Karabakh's "reintegration" into Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Lebanese Armenians scuffle with riot police during protest outside Azerbaijan Embassy
Hundreds of Lebanese Armenians have scuffled with riot police outside the Azerbaijan Embassy in a northern Beirut suburb.
 
An UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency) staff registers a Palestinian family who fled their house in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh to an UNRWA school, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. UNRWA said hundreds of families displaced from Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp have taken shelter in nearby mosques, schools and the Sidon municipality building after the fighting that broke out last Thursday in the camp between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group and militant Islamist groups which left several people dead and dozens wounded. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Top Hamas leader in Beirut in a bid to stop clashes at Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp
A top Hamas leader arrived in Beirut to push for an end to clashes in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp that resumed despite multiple cease-fire agreements.
 
A Lebanese army soldier stands guards at the entrance of Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh during clashes between members of the Palestinian Fatah group and Islamist militants near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. Islamist factions in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp said Sunday they will abide by a cease-fire after three days of clashes killed at least five people and left hundreds of families displaced. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Cease-fire declared after days of intense fighting in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp
An “immediate and lasting cease-fire” has been declared after a top Lebanese general met with officials from rival Palestinian factions, following days of fighting in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, which left has left six people dead and more than 50 wounded.
 
Palestinian residents who fled their home to a mosque, sit on the ground after clashes that erupted between members of the Palestinian Fatah group and Islamist militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. Islamist factions in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp said Sunday they will abide by a cease-fire after three days of clashes killed at least five people and left hundreds of families displaced. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Islamist factions in a troubled Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon say they will honor a cease-fire
Islamist factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp say they will abide by a cease-fire after three days of clashes killed at least five people and left hundreds of families displaced.
 
Smoke rises during clashes between members of the Palestinian Fatah group and Islamist militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. Clashes resumed in Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp overnight, with heavy gunfire and shelling wounding several people and prompting residents of the camp and the surrounding area to flee Friday. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Clashes resume between factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp
Clashes have resumed in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, with heavy gunfire and shelling wounding at least 20 people. The outbreak prompted residents of the camp and the surrounding areas to flee on Friday.
 
Empty bullet cartridges are seen lying on the road during a third day of clashes that erupted between members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group and Islamist factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, July 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)
Lebanon warns Palestinian president that troops may intervene if clashes continue in refugee camp
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has demanded an end to the volatile clashes in the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, warning that troops may have to intervene if the deadly violence doesn’t stop.
 
Members of the Palestinian Fatah group run to take position during a third day of clashes that erupted with Islamist factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, July 31, 2023. A Lebanese army spokesperson said the death toll from the fighting in Ein el-Hilweh camp had reached six, although some reports have given higher figures. Two soldiers stationed outside the camp were lightly wounded, Col. Fadi Abou Eid said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)
Thousands mourn a Palestinian general, among 9 killed in sectarian clashes at a Lebanon refugee camp
Thousands of mourners have gathered in south Lebanon for the funeral of a Palestinian military general with the Fatah group, whose killing in a refugee camp in Lebanon sparked fierce sectarian street battles that have killed at least nine people.
 
Lebanese try to storm Energy Ministry amid power cuts
Dozens of Lebanese protesters have tried to storm the Ministry of Energy, angered by prolonged power cuts as the country grapples with a crippling economic crisis.
 
Lebanese economy hammered by political crisis, debt
Nearly four months after Lebanon’s first parliamentary elections in nine years, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has not succeeded in forming a new Cabinet due to political bickering between rival groups increasing pressure on the country’s economy.