My earliest childhood memories of Lebanon always honored nature, especially at Christmas time. My mother’s family lived in the mountain villages 4,000 feet above Beirut where pieces of smooth and ...

Hana El-Hibri: In 2009, I was invited to be part of the first team to hike the entire Lebanon Mountain Trail, from north to south, for the first time. This was a journey of discovery for me, the ...

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The UNHCR emergency team spearheading our operations around the Lebanon crisis began arriving in Damascus yesterday and are expected to head to Beirut either today (Friday) or tomorrow. The first task ...

The proud Maronite Catholic clansmen of Zghorta. a mountain village famed for its fighting spirit since the days of the First Crusade, are as pious as they are touchy. When they are feuding—and that ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 27 (UNHCR) - UNHCR field teams in mountain areas outside Beirut are buying and distributing supplies of urgently needed items for displaced people while waiting for tonnes of ...

NABATIEH, Lebanon (AP) — Israel’s air force carried out intense airstrikes on mountains overlooking a southern city in Lebanon on Friday, in an attack that the Israeli military said targeted ...