Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Beirut is a city where quiet is hard to come by, a luxury reserved for the privileged few.

Between October 7, 2023, and October 18, 2024, Israel, Hezbollah, and other Lebanese groups exchanged more than 13,600 ...

KAKUMA, Kenya — At a refugee camp in northern Kenya , Aujene Cimanimpaye waits as a hot lunch of lentils and sorghum is ladled out for her and her nine children — all born while she has received ...

Lebanon would be at the epicenter of those tensions. And, according to Michael Bauer, the country was certainly not capable of coping with another crisis — not to mention a war with Israel.

Students in an English class at a primary school run by UNRWA for Palestinian refugees at the Mar Elias refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ...

The region holds its breath, waiting to see if the recent developments mark the end of the conflict between Tehran and Tel ...

Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem has reaffirmed the group’s refusal to disarm while Israel continues its airstrikes and occupies ...

An Israeli drone strike has hit a car near Beirut, killing one person and injuring three others, according to Lebanon's state ...

The US demands that the Lebanese cabinet approve a plan on the disarmament of Hezbollah as Israeli attacks in south Lebanon ...

Lebanese officials were drafting a response on Tuesday to U.S. demands for armed group Hezbollah to relinquish its weapons ...