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Rep. Dan Meuser met with local protesters before defending the "big beautiful bill" at a Thursday luncheon with the Lebanon ...
Protesters faced down police near Parliament in Beirut. BEIRUT, LEBANON -- Pictures from downtown Beirut Sunday night showed an extraordinary standoff between fed up protesters and riot police ...
Tens of thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Lebanon as a series of anti-government protests entered its fourth day on Sunday. The unified crowd consisted of people of all ages ...
International donors have pledged to help Lebanon reduce the debt and the government has promised reforms to bring down expenditures. The protests seem to be a leaderless uprising with one common ...
EPHRATA - An Ephrata woman will go to criminal court on charges that her one-woman protest of the Lebanon County District Attorney’s handling of a rape case crossed the line into harassment. Kimberly ...
Massive, unexpected protests erupted across Lebanon on Thursday. While the protests were triggered by the government’s plan to impose a tax on WhatsApp, a popular messaging app, the underlying ...
Lebanon has seen mass anti-government demonstrations since October 17, 2019, when the government announced a slew of new taxes. The countrywide protests devolved into expressions of anger against ...
The skies above Lebanon have been filled with colorful balloons in recent days. They're not in celebration, but in protest, and bear the message "Enough, we want dignity" scrawled in Arabic in ...
A new wave of unrest against governments is sweeping the Middle East. Washington, DC & Beirut, Lebanon -- It's been nearly a decade since a Tunisian street vendor set himself on fire -- an act of ...
Just a couple of months ago, Lebanon's streets were buzzing with protests. Today, they are eerily quiet and deserted. The coronavirus pandemic brought months of nationwide protests to a screeching ...
Fury at political elites has engulfed Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets across the country for anti-government protests, paralyzing its economy and blindsiding its government.
“This time it’s all of Lebanon.” Though some protesters smashed store windows in downtown Beirut and set tires aflame on Friday, the protests were mostly peaceful, the prevailing mood one of ...