Timeline:Lebanon

Dated events for Lebanon, generated from the archive. Each line is one headline as it was recorded.

2026-07-12

Lebanon's dilemma - ynet.co.il

2026-07-01

Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion? - TV7 Israel News

2026-06-22

Lebanon’s Failure to Disassociate - Foreign Policy in Focus

2026-06-12

The U.S. Should Not Encourage Syria to Enter Lebanon - The Washington Institute

2026-06-06

Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - ynet.co.il

2026-06-05

Lebanon’s President Accuses Iran of Using Lebanon as Bargaining Chip, Urges Diplomacy Over War - Kurdistan24

2026-05-31

Lebanon's prime minister: Israel has a 'scorched-earth policy' in Lebanon - The Jerusalem Post

2026-05-26

The knot in Lebanon is tightening - hurriyet.com.tr

2026-05-11

Are Lebanon-Israel talks a mistake? The view from Cairo - Al Majalla

2026-05-07

The Final Lebanon War? - David Daoud, Jonathan Schanzer - The Dispatch

2026-05-01

Recalling Damascus on the Hudson - The Broadsheet

2026-04-26

Damascus, Scatter Brain, and New Faces - The Trek

2026-04-23

Trump Says Israel and Lebanon Agree to Extend Cease-Fire - The New York Times

2026-04-21

Israel Cannot Achieve Normalization with Lebanon by Bombing It - Stimson Center

2026-04-17

Damascus, MD - gnews

2026-04-15

Discover - Twin Cities PBS

2026-04-14

IDF officer severely injured in southern Lebanon, weapons found in Lebanon home - The Jerusalem Post
Israel-Lebanon Peace Talks, Strait of Hormuz Blockade and More - The New York Times

2026-04-11

Lebanon: Flash Update #16 - Escalation of hostilities in Lebanon (as of 9 April 2026) - OCHA

2026-04-02

How to Prevent a Repeat of the Gaza Narrative in Lebanon - The Washington Institute

2026-03-25

Acknowledgments - Pew Research Center
The Choking of Hormuz - The New York Times

2026-03-24

Lebanon’s stability requires steadier US engagement - Al Majalla

2026-03-22

Israel eliminates 3 Hamas members operating in Lebanon - FDD's Long War Journal

2026-03-17

Situation in Lebanon - ohchr - gnews

2026-03-13

Kibbutz residents on edge amid fighting near Lebanon - DW.com

2026-03-05

Is this the end of Hezbollah? Lebanon is finally taking on the militia - UnHerd
Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? - Arab Center Washington DC

2026-02-27

Shipping Tribune - shippingtribune.com

2026-02-10

Cutting Through the Fog of War (and Peace) in Syria - The Washington Institute

2026-02-02

Hassan Nasrallah's Father Dies at 90 in Lebanon - JFeed

2026-01-21

The Price of Armed Exception in Lebanon - Nowlebanon

2025-12-30

Lebanon was not the headline at Mar-a-Lago. That was precisely the point. - Nowlebanon

2025-12-16

Lebanon FM’s Iran criticism sparks political rift - The Jerusalem Post

2025-12-15

Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Destroying Reconstruction Equipment - Human Rights Watch

2025-12-12

Msayleh - Human Rights Watch

2025-12-08

Baraa in Syria - Al Jazeera

2025-12-05

Hezbollah condemns Lebanon's delegation to ceasefire talks - The Jerusalem Post

2025-11-30

UNFIL work blocked by Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon - The Jerusalem Post

2025-11-24

Lebanon: Between escalation and strategic opportunity - opinion - The Jerusalem Post

2025-11-18

Hamas - Middle East Institute

2025-11-11

Spotlight on Terrorism: Lebanon and Hezbollah (November 1-10, 2025) - Terrorism Info

2025-10-26

Javad Naeimi: Mossad Spy or a Victim? - WANA News Agency

2025-10-23

IDF strikes Hezbollah training camp in Lebanon - The Jerusalem Post
Lebanon: Attacks stoke fear of renewed escalation - DW.com

2025-10-20

Barrack: Syria and Lebanon are next steps for Levant peace - The Jerusalem Post

2025-10-17

Huge Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon despite ceasefire - Al Jazeera

2025-10-13

Poor Syria - Arab American Institute

2025-10-10

Why Lebanon is stuck in the middle on Hezbollah disarmament - Atlantic Council

2025-10-01

Focus on the Druze - Jewish Policy Center
Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Arab Center Washington DC

2025-09-26

Israel - General Debate

2025-09-24

Returning to Yarmouk - Jewish Currents

2025-09-17

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation - Transnational Institute
History of the Kaaba - TRT World
Syria, Lebanon sign agreement on border demarcation - TRT World

2025-09-05

Discontent Amid Despair - Riddle Russia

2025-09-04

Palestinian Disarmament in Lebanon: Small Steps with Regional Implications - Arab Center Washington DC

2025-09-02

Lebanon, UNIFIL, and the return of sovereignty and peace - Middle East Institute

2025-08-26

Ukraine, Land Swaps, and Patriotic Assassination - Cato Institute

2025-08-25

Talking and Fighting Intersect in Gaza - The Soufan Center

According to the Bible, King Hiram of Tyre collaborated closely with Solomon, supplying cedar logs for Solomon's Temple and sending skilled workers. - Wikipedia
Archaeologists discovered remnants of prehistoric huts with crushed limestone floors, primitive weapons, and burial jars left by the Neolithic and Chalcolithic fishing communities who lived on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea over 7,000 years ago. - Wikipedia
Area: 10,400 sq km - CIA World Factbook
Background: As a result of its location at the crossroads of three continents, the area that is modern-day Lebanon is rich in cultural and religious diversity. - CIA World Factbook
Background: Following World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. - CIA World Factbook
Background: This region was subject to various foreign conquerors for much of its history, including the Romans, Arabs, and Ottomans. - CIA World Factbook
Branches: Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Army Command (includes Presidential Guard Brigade, Land Border Regiments), Naval Forces, Air Forces; ; Ministry of Interior: General Directorate of Internal Security Forces (law enforcement; includes Mobile Gendarmerie), General Directorate for Public Security (border control, some domestic security duties) (2025) - CIA World Factbook
Capital: Beirut - CIA World Factbook
Chief of state: President Joseph AOUN (since 9 January 2025) - CIA World Factbook
Climate: Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; the Lebanon Mountains experience heavy winter snows - CIA World Factbook
Consequently, millions of people of Lebanese descent are spread throughout the world, especially in Latin America; Brazil and Argentina have the largest Lebanese communities, with the former having the largest population in the world, at 5–7 million. - Wikipedia
Despite the ethnic, linguistic, religious and denominational diversity of the Lebanese, they "share an almost common culture". - Wikipedia
Equipment: the LAF's inventory is comprised of mostly older or secondhand equipment from an array of countries, such as France, Germany, Russia, and especially the US (2025) - CIA World Factbook
Ethnic groups: Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% - CIA World Factbook
Evidence of early settlement in Lebanon was found in Byblos, considered among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. - Wikipedia
Fertility rates vary considerably among the different religious groups: in 2004, it was 2.10 for Shiites, 1.76 for Sunnis and 1.61 for Maronites. - Wikipedia
Formally trained in Rome and Paris, he exhibited in venues from Paris to New York to Beirut over his career. - Wikipedia
Government type: parliamentary democratic republic - CIA World Factbook
Head of government: Prime Minister Nawaf SALAM (since 8 February 2025) - CIA World Factbook
Identifying all Lebanese as ethnically Arab is a widely employed example of panethnicity, as the Lebanese "are descended from many different peoples who are either indigenous, or have occupied, invaded, or settled this corner of the world", making Lebanon, "a mosaic of closely interrelated cultures". - Wikipedia
In visual arts, Moustafa Farroukh was among Lebanon's most prominent painters of the 20th century. - Wikipedia
Languages: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian - CIA World Factbook
Lebanese Arabic is universally spoken while food, music, and literature are deep-rooted "in wider Mediterranean and Levantine norms". - Wikipedia
Lebanese people have a long history of emigration stretching back to the 19th century; including partial ancestry, more Lebanese live outside the country than in Lebanon itself. - Wikipedia
Lebanon had an estimated population of 5,592,631 in 2021, with the number of Lebanese nationals estimated at 4,680,212 in July; however, no official census has been conducted since 1932 due to the sensitive confessional political balance between Lebanon's various religious groups. - Wikipedia
Lebanon was part of northern Canaan, and consequently became the homeland of Canaanite descendants, the Phoenicians, a seafaring people based in the coastal strip of the northern Levant who spread across the Mediterranean in the first millennium BC. - Wikipedia
Lebanon's diverse population, composed of different ethnic and religious groups, has further contributed to the country's festivals, musical styles and literature as well as cuisine. - Wikipedia
Legal system: mixed system of civil law based on the French civil code, Ottoman legal tradition, and religious laws covering personal status, marriage, divorce, and other family relations of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities - CIA World Factbook
Life expectancy: 79.2 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Literacy: 92% (2019 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria - CIA World Factbook
Major urban areas: 2.421 million BEIRUT (capital) (2023) - CIA World Factbook
Many more contemporary artists are active, such as Walid Raad, a contemporary media artist residing in New York. - Wikipedia
Median age: 29.4 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Natural resources: limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land - CIA World Factbook
North America likewise hosts a large diaspora, particularly in Canada (approximately 250,000–700,000) and the United States (around 2 million). - Wikipedia
Originally home to the Canaanite-Phoenicians, and then conquered and occupied by the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, the Ottoman Turks and most recently the French, Lebanese culture has over the millennia evolved by borrowing from all of these groups. - Wikipedia
Personnel: approximately 70,000 active Lebanese Armed Forces (2025) - CIA World Factbook
Population: 5,364,482 (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Religions: Muslim 67.8% (31.9% Sunni, 31.2% Shia, smaller percentages of Alawites and Ismailis), Christian 32.4% (Maronite Catholics are the largest Christian group), Druze 4.5%, very small numbers of Jews, Baha'is, Buddhists, and Hindus (2020 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Terrain: narrow coastal plain; El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley) separates Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains - CIA World Factbook
The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary at around 12000 BC. - Wikipedia
The Phoenicians are credited with the invention of the oldest verified alphabet, which subsequently inspired the Greek alphabet and the Latin one thereafter. - Wikipedia
The country has experienced a series of migration waves since independence: over 1.8 million people emigrated from the country between 1975 and 2011. - Wikipedia
The culture of Lebanon reflects the legacy of various civilizations spanning thousands of years. - Wikipedia
The evidence dates back to earlier than 5000 BC. - Wikipedia
The fertility rate fell from 5.00 in 1971 to 1.75 in 2004. - Wikipedia
The most prominent Phoenician cities were Byblos, Sidon and Tyre. - Wikipedia
Urbanization: 89.4% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook