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Lebanon aviation authorities have banned Iranian airlines Mahan Air (W5) and Iran Air (IR) from flying into Beirut, Lebanese television network LBCI reported. This comes after an accusation by Israel's military that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force used civilian flights to ship money and arms to Hezbollah through Beirut airport (BEY).

The second-generation owners of West St. Paul's former Beirut Restaurant have opened a new venture in their home community of Rosemount. Beirut Lebanese Street Food & Catering opened Monday, four months after Beirut Restaurant ended its 41-year run.

Lebanon blocked an Iranian airliner from flying into Beirut Thursday after Israel accused Iran a day earlier of using civilian flights to deliver cash to Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. The chief executive of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport,

The incident marks the latest in a series at the Beirut airport, which has been a key point of tension between Iran and people within Lebanon’s government who are cautiously distancing themselves from Iran’s influence.

Tens of thousands of people packed into a stadium in Beirut early Sunday to attend the funeral of Hezbollah's former leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital.

The late leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group who was killed in an Israeli airstrike days after he took the post was laid to rest in his southern hometown Monday, a day after his cousin and predecessor was buried in Beirut.

Hezbollah on Sunday condemned an attack on a United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) convoy in Beirut on Friday which the U.S. State Department has said was reportedly carried out by supporters of the militant group.

The Lebanese army fired tear gas on Saturday at Hezbollah supporters protesting around Beirut airport against Lebanon blocking an Iranian flight to Beirut this week after the Israeli military accused Tehran of using civilian aircraft to smuggle cash to Beirut to arm the Lebanese group.

The outgoing deputy force commander of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) in Lebanon was injured on Friday after a convoy taking peacekeepers to Beirut airport was "violently attacked", UNIFIL said.

Syria’s new authorities have started probing “the involvement of the former Syrian regime in cooperation with Iran-backed Lebanese militias” in “the import and smuggling of the ammonium nitrate” of which hundreds of tons exploded at Beirut’s port on August 4,