Lebanon's 2024 army is entirely volunteer-based and consists of "approximately 73,000 active troops (70,000 Army; 1,500 Navy; 1,500 Air Force)", according to the CIA World Factbook. The LAF is ...

Cyprus has the largest proportion of Christians in the Middle East, but Lebanon comes in second. According to a 2020 estimate reported in the CIA World Factbook, Christians are 32.4% of the country's ...

Having failed to secure a cease-fire, the White House now hopes for a working buffer zone in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s armed Hezbollah group ... Hassan Nasrallah has said it has 100,000 fighters; the US Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook says it was estimated in 2022 to have 45,000 fighters ...

Hezbollah is preparing for a long war of attrition in south Lebanon, after Israel wiped out its top leadership, with a new ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah is preparing for a long war of attrition in south Lebanon, after Israel wiped out its top ...

Friends and foes alike are now watching how effectively Hezbollah resists Israeli troops that have crossed into Lebanon with ...

Israel-Palestine conflict is driven by three interrelated factors — demographics, statelessness and a deep-seated sense of ...

The CIA World Factbook says it was estimated in 2022 to ... formed in 1982 after Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon that year. It leads a multi-party alliance that holds just under half ...