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.

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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. 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 ...