The Lebanese prime minister has told a visiting U.N. delegation that his country will need a follow-up force in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel to fill the vacuum once the U.N. peacekeepers’ term there expires by the end of next year.

Israel and Lebanon sent civilian envoys to a military committee monitoring their ceasefire, top officials from both said on Wednesday, in a move set to expand the scope of talks between the long-time foes for the first time.

DUBAI, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi invited Lebanon's Foreign Minister Youssef Raji to visit Iran in the near future to discuss bilateral ties, Iran's foreign ministry said on Thursday, amid a U.S.-backed roadmap in Lebanon to disarm the Iran-aligned Hezbollah group.

Pope Leo XIV challenged Lebanon’s political leaders to be true peacemakers and put their differences aside as he sought to give the country's long-suffering people a message of hope and bolster a crucial Christian community in the Middle East.

Pope Leo XIV ended his first overseas papal trip with prayers at Beirut's devastated port and a Mass attended by 150,000 worshippers in a country desperate for signs of hope amid fear of renewed war.

Pope Leo XIV has left Lebanon, but the imprint of his visit remains deeply etched across the country.  The pontiff’s presence in the country from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 stirred something in everyone — from the elderly who have carried decades of Lebanon’s wounds,

Capobres, who is Catholic and has worked in Lebanon for 17 years, met Leo on Monday, alongside priests and other church volunteers on his first overseas trip as pope, in which he called on the Middle East's leaders to reject the horror of war.

A local family is demanding answers after their loved one died at Lebanon Correctional Institution just weeks before his scheduled release.

In August it was confirmed that the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Lebanon is set to come to an end in 2027. All members of an Irish Defence Forces battalion "are well and accounted for" after they came under "small arms fire" in south Lebanon.