Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to new prime minister-designate,

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law.

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Lebanon’s parliament elected a new president on January 9 after a two-year political deadlock and 12 failed attempts. Joseph Aoun met the threshold for victory in the second round of voting after his rival, a Hezbollah-backed candidate called Suleiman Frangieh, withdrew from the race.

The election of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is a political breakthrough in Lebanon and a harbinger of what could happen in a country long dismissed as unsalvageable. Beirut’s new leadership reflects the aspiration of a majority of the Lebanese people to live in a functioning state free from the dual drivers of its failure: political violence and pervasive corruption.

At least 22 people were killed and 124 others injured by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, as residents of villages near the border defied orders by Israel’s ...

The U.S.-monitored arrangement between Lebanon and Israel will carry on ... consultations with President Joseph Aoun and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a powerful Hezbollah ally.

Earlier this month, Lebanon’s parliament elected Joseph Aoun, supported by the US and formerly the military chief, as president. It ended more than two years of stalemate that had resulted in a ...

Zeinab Suleiman arrived on the outskirts of her hometown, Kfar Kila along Lebanon’s southern border at 7 a.m. on Sunday. But by mid-afternoon, she was still waiting to enter the village ...

Lebanon, one of the most troubled countries ... the prime minister is a Sunni Muslim; and the speaker of parliament is a Shia Muslim. The president is elected by parliament and appoints the ...

As hundreds of Lebanese individuals tried on Sunday to cross through IDF defense lines to return to several villages in southern Lebanon, the military said it used warning shots to keep them away ...

The formation of a Lebanese government has been postponed another week. Various parties that had been eagerly awaiting a breakthrough are growing increasingly concerned. There were several indications suggesting that Lebanon would imminently exit the long tunnel of its crisis.