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Lebanese civil war

Hezbollah supporters carry the Iran-backed terror group's flag while they ride a motorcycle past destruction, upon their return to their neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs, after a 10-day ceasefire with Israel came into effect, April 17, 2026. (Fadel Itani/AFP)
April 22, 2026, 11:50 am
As internal divisions simmer, Lebanese see echoes of last century’s civil war
Ex-fighters warn country nearing breaking point amid talks with Israel, sharpening rift between government and Hezbollah as well as sectarian fissures over who’s to blame for IDF strikes
By Maya Gebeily and Emilie Madi
A handout photo from Israeli television made available on July 13, 2008, shows a photograph of Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator who was captured after his fighter jet was shot down in Lebanon in 1986. (HO / AFP)
December 23, 2025, 10:19 pm
Lebanon says retired senior officer with ties to capture of Ron Arad has vanished
Reports say Ahmad Shukr, brother of man involved in capturing downed Israeli navigator, was ‘lured from his hometown by two Swedes’ amid speculation he was nabbed by Israeli agents
By AFP and Noam Lehmann
A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Force known as Asayesh stands guard during a protest against the Turkish military offensive in northeastern Syria, in the town of Qamishli on October 23, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
December 31, 2024, 10:53 pm
As Iran’s network of proxies withers, Israel has an opening to revive its own
Tehran dominated much of the region through loyal armed groups; burned by Lebanon trauma, Israel moved away from that approach, but now leaders talk of alliances with minorities
By Lazar Berman
Jonathan Elkhoury (left), who escaped Lebanon as a refugee with his family, former SLA members, when he was nine, stands in front of the White House at a pro-Israel rally in September 2024. (Courtesy)
October 13, 2024, 9:01 am
For the Southern Lebanese Army’s second generation, Nasrallah’s death is a ‘breakthrough’
Former SLA members refuse to speak in the face of reprisals, but these young Lebanese-Israelis believe it’s their mission to raise the curtain on the truth about Hezbollah
By Diana Bletter
Lebanese men walk with a dog past tents where displaced people have been sleeping on Beirut's seaside promenade of Ain al-Mreisseh, on October 7, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
October 8, 2024, 6:45 pm
Fleeing Hezbollah stronghold, Beirut’s displaced met with suspicion and paranoia
Many worry that operatives escaping war could draw Israeli airstrikes to their neighborhoods, fear repeat of civil war phenomenon of displaced seizing homes
By AFP and ToI Staff
Lebanese-American singer Carine Bassili, May 2024. (courtesy)
May 28, 2024, 12:32 am
Banned from Lebanon for Israel ties, artist sings Arabic cover of Eden Golan’s ‘Hurricane’
Carine Bassili, devout Christian living in US, hopes her music will build bridges between her people and Israelis: ‘You cannot have peace before having healing and reconciliation’
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Amira Mansour (C) dances as Samir Damouni plays the Oud during a community Christmas dinner for elderly residents at the only majority-Christian Palestinian refugee camp, in Dbayeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, December 21, 2022. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
December 23, 2022, 2:18 pm
Lebanon’s Christian Palestinian refugee camp balances complex identities
Dbayeh camp keeps low profile during Christmas, and is regarded with suspicion by other Palestinians for its position during country’s civil war
By ABBY SEWELL
Lebanon’s ambassador to France, Rami Adwan, hosts French Jews of Lebanese descent at the Lebanese embassy in Paris, November 3, 2021 (Twitter)
November 5, 2021, 8:08 pm
Lebanese envoy hosts event for French Jewish expats, urges them to return home
At unprecedented ‘reunion’ in Lebanon’s embassy in Paris, ambassador says country in danger of total collapse, citizens of all different sects must unite to save it
By ToI Staff
An employee looks through an office window riddled with bullet holes after the deadly clashes that erupted a week earlier along a former 1975-90 civil war front-line between Muslim Shiite and Christian areas, in Ain el-Rumaneh neighborhood, Beirut, Lebanon, October 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
October 20, 2021, 6:00 pm
Beirut clashes fire up sectarian anger along 1975-90 civil war lines
Memories of the years-long conflict and sectarian passions triggered by last week’s deadly scenes of gunmen in streets and schoolchildren ducking under desks
By Sarah El Deeb
Supporters of the Shi'ite Amal group fire weapons in the air during the funeral processions of Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during yesterday clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, on Friday, October 15, 2021. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
October 16, 2021, 4:23 pm
Beirut street battles may spell even darker times
This week’s violence highlights willingness by members of Lebanon’s ruling class to fight for political survival at any cost
By Zeina Karam
Two Palestinian women weep as they sit on the curb in the Sabra Palestinian refugee camp in West Beirut, Lebanon, September 19, 1982, after they found bodies of relatives. (AP Photo/Bill Foley)
September 18, 2020, 10:23 am
Journalist reckons with Israeli blame for Sabra and Shatila
38 years ago, hours before the Jewish new year, word arrived of bloodshed by an Israeli ally in Beirut. A reporter set off to Lebanon to seek out the truth
By Abraham Rabinovich
A woman is wheeled into a hospital following an explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, 2020. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)
August 6, 2020, 7:55 pm
Echoes of Lebanon’s civil war seen in aftermath of Beirut blast
Doctors without Borders head says hospitals now have handle on treating patients thanks to triage experience, calls for provisioning of food and shelter for the destitute
By AFP
Anti-government protesters sit in the middle of a main highway during ongoing protests against the Lebanese government, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 28, 2019, 9:11 pm
Lebanese protesters get creative to barricade roads
Mass protests over corruption and economic mismanagement have shuttered banks, brought the economy to a halt, leading to fears of a collapse
By Joseph Krauss
Supporters of the Hezbollah terror group drive in a convoy in support of its leader Hassan Nasrallah's speech, in the area of Fatima's Gate in Kfar Kila on the Lebanese border with Israel, October 25, 2019. (Ali Dia/AFP)
October 25, 2019, 10:44 pm
Hezbollah chief warns of civil war, says Israel exploiting Lebanon protests
Terror chief says though the demonstrations began spontaneously they are now being manipulated by domestic and regional rivals; Hezbollah supporters clash with demonstrators
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this Sept. 18, 2019 photo, a Lebanese deminer from Humanity and Inclusion, a French-based international non-governmental organization, uses a mine detector at a cedar forest, in Hadath El-Jebbeh, north Lebanon (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
September 28, 2019, 3:27 pm
Lebanese clear wartime mines from famed cedar forests
Decades of internal fighting as well as war with Israel have left woodlands strewn with hundreds of thousands of deadly bombs
By Bassam Mroue
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