Asia Lebanon Beirut was hit by an airstrike carried out by Israel for the first time since a truce between the Israeli army and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah halted the war between the two in November
Asia Lebanon A draft law on restructuring Lebanese banking sector was adopted, a condition for unlocking international aid to face the economic crisis it has suffered since 2019; it is considered the first time a Lebanese government has approved a bill of this kind
Asia Lebanon Prominent Lebanese journalist and executive producer Ahmad Farhat was killed in an attack by an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle that hit his car in the Iqlim al-Tuffah district in the south of the country
Asia Lebanon Nawaf Salam, Lebanon's prime minister in office for less than a month, appointed a new government after more than two years in which the country had been ruled by an interim executive
Asia Lebanon Lebanon's new president called for Israel to withdraw from the south of the country by the January 26 deadline agreed to in last year's cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, citing continued violations by land and air