In Lebanon, the tiny Arab state and French Mandate on the Mediterranean’s eastern shore, the United Nations came up hard against two complex, trouble-packed problems: the demands of Arab peoples ...

it created and administered what is modern-day Lebanon under a League of Nations mandate following World War I. It also ruled over neighboring Syria. In doing so, the French forcefully integrated ...

Safe in the back hills of Lebanon, some 35 miles from Beirut, a Lebanese rump government sat tight last week and awaited developments in its struggle for independence with the French Mandate ...

ADDS extension of army chief mandate, French envoy's visit, picture and video tags, ADDS France to slug Lebanon's parliament will meet on January 9 to elect a new president, seeking to end more ...

The NNA also said Thursday that "parliament approved the extension of the mandate ... French diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters that Le Drian came to Lebanon ...