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Lebanon's electricity utility Électricité du Liban shuts down two of its biggest power stations due to lack of fuel, reducing total electrical output by 40% and leaving much of the country without power.
2021-07-9

U.S. authorities in Massachusetts arrest a father and son, aged 59 and 27, who have been charged in Japan with helping Carlos Ghosn, former Chairman of Nissan, to escape from Japan to Lebanon last year.
2020-05-20

Canadian tourist Kristian Lee Baxter, who had been held in Syrian detention since 2018, is released in Lebanon.
2019-08-9

A civilian vehicle hits an unexploded landmine in Arsal, Lebanon. Three occupants die.
2018-04-14

Kuwaiti authorities announce they arrested six members of an extremist network suspected of supplying funds and weapons, including rockets, to Daesh (Islamic State) militants. Four others are still being sought outside of the country. The group includes a Lebanese, an Egyptian, five Syrians, two Australians, and a Kuwaiti national.
2015-11-19

Syrian air strikes near the Lebanese border town of Arsal killed three people.
2014-02-28

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

Israeli warplanes strike Na'ameh, Lebanon in response to rocket attacks.
2013-08-23

French newspaper "Le Figaro" reports that Hezbollah has transferred hundreds of missiles from Syria to Lebanon, fearing the fall of the Syrian government in the ongoing Syrian uprising.
2011-06-26

Lebanese Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah dies suddenly in Beirut.
2010-07-4