The election of Joseph Aoun to the presidency of Lebanon has profound implications for the country, both domestically and internationally. Aoun served as the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) for years and is

An Israeli airstrike on Nabatieh, a major town in southern Lebanon, injured 14 people on Tuesday, said the Lebanese health ministry.

Implementation of a ban on the U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA in Israel - due to start on Thursday - will be disastrous, the UNRWA chief told the Security Council on Tuesday, as the United States accused it of being "irresponsible and dangerous.

Long lines of Palestinians -- some kneeling to kiss the soil as they stepped into the northern part of the strip -- were making their way home on Monday.

The Lebanese Army deployed units on Tuesday in several localities in the southwest of Lebanon and in other border areas of the southern region of the Litani River following the withdrawal of Israeli troops,

The Emirati state-owned defense and technology conglomerate EDGE Group has acquired a stake in an Israeli defense firm, the latter announced on Tuesday, underscoring growing defense ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates despite Abu Dhabi's recent public rebukes of Israeli military actions.

Many residents of northern Gaza and southern Lebanon are expected to return to their homes in the coming days and weeks, with most of the fighting in both areas paused under Israeli ceasefire agreements with Hamas and Hezbollah.

Nicole Grajewski is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance From Syria to Ukraine.

"Lebanon had no other choice but to give its consent," a source in a Lebanese special service told the newspaper

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