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 ...

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

or LF – the strongest Christian party in Lebanon, which is especially rooted among ordinary people. Normally, the supporters of this former militia turned political party rarely hold back when ...

MAARAB, Lebanon — There’s no love lost between Lebanese Christian leader Samir Geagea and Hezbollah ... Following an invasion by Israel aimed at smashing Hezbollah, the civil war-era militia commander ...

Lebanese troops, outgunned not just by Israel but also by Hezbollah, have remained firmly on the sidelines during the current conflict. But some observers say that as toothless as it is compared to ...

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 ...

which brings the total number of fatalities to almost 3,000 since fighting broke out between Israel and the Hezbollah militia more than a year ago. The Lebanese Health Ministry said another 169 ...