Lebanon news headlines

Ashlyn Nassif, daughter of Jean Nassif, will contest allegations she falsified official documents to trigger a multi-million dollar development loan.

The wave of strikes followed the killing of a high-level commander by Israeli forces.

The government's Smartraveller website issued the warning as cross-border attacks continue.

The top US general fears a wider regional conflict if Israel launches a full-scale attack on Lebanon.

The group has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all-out war, it has warned.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel have both denied responsibility for the attack as the United Nations investigates.

It's the start of historic hearings into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state.

The Israeli army said it was a limited operation seeking the remains of hostages taken by Hamas.

South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians and pleaded with the court to urgently order a halt to the country's military operation.

How many casualties would warrant a full-blown offensive? Each strike and counterstrike increases the risk of the already catastrophic war in Gaza spilling across the region.

The strike was one of the most serious attacks from Hezbollah in the months of fighting that accompanied Israel's war in Gaza.

Ibrahim Bazzi moved to Australia in 2021 and was living in Bexley in Sydney's south with his sister and brother-in-law.

Israel's military has said it has encircled Gaza City, but on Saturday offered a three-hour window for residents trapped by the fighting to flee south.

In a televised speech, Hassan Nasrallah said his group had "entered the battle".

The federal government warned it may soon be too late to leave the Middle Eastern country if the Israel Hamas conflict spreads.

Officials are working to secure their safe passage through the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

Following the meeting in Beirut, a brief statement said Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah agreed with Hamas' Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad's leader Ziad al-Nakhleh on the next steps.

The two-week-old war with Hamas has threatened to spiral into a broader conflict.

Denmark, Sweden and Norway joined Australia in further tightening travel advisories for Lebanon and cautioned against travel there until further notice as Hamas and Hezbollah say they bombarded Israel from Lebanon.

Retaliation strikes have levelled buildings in Gaza, while in northern Israel a brief exchange of strikes with Hezbollah raised fears of a broader conflict.

A British court has ordered a London-based company that delivered the ammonium nitrate that exploded in 2020 at Beirut's port to pay compensation to some families of the hundreds of victims.

Tensions have soared in the past week at the flashpoint shrine after an Israeli police raid on the mosque.

The spasm of violence in Israel and the West Bank heightened fears of an even more intense surge, with the rare convergence of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, the Jewish Passover holiday and Easter currently underway.

The government delayed the daylight saving switch but many businesses refused to listen. The result is chaos.

Lebanese depositors, including one armed with a hunting rifle, have broken into at least five banks over past days to demand their trapped savings.

Beirut residents warned to wear masks in painful reminder of horrific blast that killed more than 200.

Lebanon's economy is in such free-fall some bystanders cheered the man, who has surrendered to police.

Ukraine's ambassador to Lebanon has insisted a Syrian ship docked at a Lebanese port is carrying stolen Ukrainian grain and urged Lebanon to block the vessel from leaving.

Watching the battle, photographer Stefano Unterthiner felt immersed in "the smell, the noise, the fatigue and the pain".

A fierce protest over a probe into Beirut's August 2020 port blast prompted the worst violence Lebanon has witnessed in more than 10 years.

Sydney community leader Dr Jamal Rifi has reportedly been convicted in abstentia of treason in Lebanon.

A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored exploded in northern Lebanon early Sunday.

United in grief and anger, families of the victims and several thousand Lebanese on Wednesday marked one year since the horrific explosion at Beirut's port with a moment of silence and prayers at the foot of the silos that was shredded by the blast on that fateful day.

One year after the massive Beirut blast killed more than 214 people, the fight for justice continues.

Anti-government protesters in Lebanon are burning tires to block key roads, releasing dense palls of smoke that rise above the capital of Beirut and other parts of the country.

The caretaker prime minister and three former ministers have been accused of negligence leading to the death of hundreds of people.

Abu Mohammed Al-Masri and his daughter, the widow of Osama bin Laden's son, both found dead.

A massive haul of goods to help the people of Lebanon through some of their darkest days is tonight en route from Sydney.

A column of thick black smoke billowed from the port at midday in Thursday, with orange flames leaping from the ground.

For three days, people across Lebanon were glued to their TV screens, anticipating news of a possible survivor.

Rescuers have continued to dig through the rubble of a building destroyed in last month's blast in the hopes of finding a survivor.

A pulsing signal has been detected from under the rubble of a Beirut building that collapsed during the horrific port explosion in the Lebanese capital last month, raising hopes there may be a survivor still buried there.

Salim Jamil Ayyash was found guilty of being part of the "red cell phone network".

Survivors of the deadly blast that flattened Beirut and sent an earthquake-like shockwave have revealed their scars as they tell their stories of the moments they escaped death.

Newlywed Hala Jheir was driving home to her husband in the Beirut suburb of Gimmayzeh when 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited causing a blast likened to that of an atomic bomb.

A nation still burying its dead Tuesday marked a week since the explosion in Beirut that flattened much of the Lebanese capital's port, damaged buildings and left thousands of people dead and injured.

Lebanon's government has resigned amid widespread public fury at the country's ruling elite over last week's devastating explosion in Beirut.

More than $400 million has been pledged in of the people of Beirut and Lebanon after the devastating explosion that ripped through its capital, Beirut, five days ago.

Blast in Beirut damages buildings, blows out windows and doors as a giant mushroom cloud rises above the Lebanese capital.