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 ...

Despite its long history of presence in the Levant, Paris lacks the diplomatic capacity to help broker regional peace ...

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 ...