Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday his government was providing support to an Australian mother and TV crew charged in Beirut with kidnapping-related offences.
An Australian television crew has been detained in Lebanon for questioning over an alleged child abduction case, Lebanese officials said.
One man was killed and others injured late on Friday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon as a dispute between rival political groups escalated into gun battles.
The Saudi-owned television news channel Al Arabiya has shut its offices in Lebanon and dismissed 27 employees, in a sudden move that comes amid political tensions between Riyadh and Beirut.
The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain has deported several Lebanese residents for links to the Hezbollah movement, classified by the Arab League as a terrorist group, the interior ministry said Monday.
Iran warned that its Gulf Arab rivals were jeopardising Lebanon's stability by blacklisting the leading force behind its government, Hezbollah, as a terror group.
Former Lebanese prime minister Saad al-Hariri said he was committed to backing his rival Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency, indicating an almost two-year deadlock over the job will not be resolved soon.
Qatar University (QU) has been ranked No 6 in the pilot Times Higher Education (THE) Top 15 Arab World Universities Ranking.
Hezbollah set off a bomb targeting Israeli forces at the Lebanese border on Monday in an apparent response to the killing in Syria last month of a prominent commander, triggering Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon.
