1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...

Some streets erupted in celebratory fireworks and gunshots. In Aoun’s hometown of Aichiye in Jezzine province, southern Lebanon, people waved the Lebanese flag and distributed traditional sweets, ...

Aoun, 61, is from Aichiye, a Christian village in Jezzine province, southern Lebanon. He joined the army as a cadet in 1983, during Lebanon's 15-year civil war. George Nader, a retired brigadier ...

Several of the cities and towns concerned, including in Homs and Tartous provinces, are near the porous border with Lebanon. A boy holds a flag adopted by the new Syrian rulers as he rides a ...

In a statement, the Internal Security Forces said a “suspicious vehicle” was stopped in the central Mount Lebanon province while carrying 67 people, who were illegally trafficked from Syria.

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than ...