Israel is increasingly operating in parts of Lebanon which are not widely populated by Shias, who are most likely to support ...

Civil war veteran Samir Geagea hopes the Shiite militia will be pressed into a position where it has no choice but to disarm.

There's no need to create militias; the Lebanese army ... Lebanese people watch the news in the Christian village of Kfarwa, southern Lebanon, on October 16, 2024. RAFAEL YAGHOBZADEH FOR LE ...

Lebanon was already on its knees before this conflict escalated, said Vivian Yee in The New York Times. It had endured years ...

The Lebanese militia initiated what it called a “support ... under an unwritten but 80-year-old agreement, must be a Maronite Christian. Members of the Lebanese parliament, divided equally ...

Israel pulled out of Lebanon in May 2000 and dismantled the SLA. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan confirmed that Israel has ...

The democratically elected Lebanese government did not authorize Hezbollah to initiate this war against Israel.

Jonathan El Khoury, whose father served in the South Lebanon Army (SLA), a Christian-majority militia founded two years after civil war broke out in 1975, said he was “100 per cent” against ...

It left its Christian militia allies, the South Lebanon Army (SLA), in control of a strip of territory well south of the Litani River, in which they established a “security zone.” They maintai ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Marjayoun, a majority Christian town in southern Lebanon, opened its schools and a church last ... could include people linked to Hezbollah, the Shi'ite Muslim militia and political ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Marjayoun, a majority Christian town in southern Lebanon, opened its schools ... the Shi'ite Muslim militia and political party at war with Israel, seven of them told Reuters.