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Mohammad Shahin, a senior Hamas commander, is assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in Sidon, Lebanon. 2025-02-17
Israeli airstrikes on two villages in Baalbek, Lebanon, kill at least nineteen people. 2024-10-30
Thousands of Iraqis demand American forces withdraw from the country during protests in Liberation Square, Baghdad, a year after an American drone strike killed Iran's general Qasem Soleimani and Iraq's militia commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The anniversary of their deaths in Baghdad was also marked in Iran as well as by supporters in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and other Middle East countries. 2021-01-3
Acting Health Minister Hamad Hassan announces that the country will gradually ease restrictions beginning tomorrow in a bid to relieve its struggling economy during Christmas and New Year festivities. Restaurants will reopen at 50% capacity and the curfew will be moved from 5:00 p.m. local time to 11:00 p.m. local time. 2020-11-29
Sixty-nine inmates escape from a prison in Baabda District, Lebanon. Five of them are killed in a car crash while being pursued by security forces. 2020-11-21
Israel and Lebanon report their first cases of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. 2020-02-21
The Lebanese government passes a series of economic measures, such as slashing government wages and extending financial aid to poor families, in an attempt to placate protestors. 2019-10-21
Syrian government troops recapture the towns of Al-Sarkha and Ma'loula near the Syria-Lebanon border. 2014-04-14
A car bomb explodes in the Central District of Beirut, Lebanon, killing eight people, including the former ambassador to the U.S. Mohamad Chatah, and wounding 71 others. 2013-12-27
Lebanon cancels an Iranian made television series about Jesus after complaints from Christian leaders and the public. 2010-08-13