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 ...

Both sides launch daytime attacks, with Israeli strikes in Tehran continuing and Iran firing more missiles, most of which Israel said were intercepted.

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

The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told ...

A BBC Bargain Hunt art expert who failed to report a series of ... Mr Ahmad is understood to be based in Beirut, the court heard. Mr Harris said: “The defendant engaged in discussions with and sales ...

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.