Nafiseh Kohnavard BBC Persian Middle East correspondent, Beirut The attack tonight on Bachoura in central Beirut is the first raid in the heart of Lebanon’s capital.

Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah fought an escalating conflict for 13 months from 2023-24. It culminated in an intense ...

Nafiseh Kohnavard BBC Persian Middle East correspondent, Beirut. Elsewhere, Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah Shia paramilitary group says its commander was killed in Damascus earlier today, ...

As tensions in the Middle East escalate, holidaymakers have become increasingly concerned about trips they have booked to ...

BBC Verify has been continuing to analyse footage of airstrikes in Beirut overnight, targeting premises of Al-Qard Al-Hassan bank (AQAH) that Israel says is used by Hezbollah.

A top U.S. official visiting the Lebanese capital on Thursday discouraged Tehran-backed armed group Hezbollah from ...

An American journalist who went missing in Syria more than a decade ago was executed on orders from then-President Bashar ...

Emergency services say ten have been killed in Israel, while Iranian state media have given little information about casualties in Iran.

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

Nafiseh Kohnavard BBC Persian Middle East correspondent, Beirut. I just heard at least three big explosions one after another in Dahieh, a suburb in southern Beirut.

Nafiseh Kohnavard BBC Persian Middle East correspondent, Beirut. Yesterday, we arrived at the scene of one of Israel’s attacks on Beirut only about an hour after it happened.

At least five people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a medical facility in Beirut, according to Lebanese officials. The Health Authority Centre was affiliated with Hezbollah The ...