2001-08-05 04:00:00 PDT Bekaa Valley, Lebanon-- For seven years, Abu Mohammed tried to support his wife and five children by growing melons. But there was never enough water, and even when weather ...

Walid Jumblatt is a name that was frequently in the news when Lebanon’s civil war was raging back in the 1980s. The longtime leader of the Druze ethnicity is still around, now an MP with the ...

Lebanon's parliament is preparing to legalize cannabis cultivation and its production for medicinal use, House Speaker Nabih Berri told US Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard on Tuesday according ...

Israeli drug users have long been happy to puff on Lebanese hashish, but now, as war between the two countries rages, some are calling for a boycott because the cross-border trade helps finance ...

BEIRUT, May 22 (Reuters) - Lebanon has foiled a plot to smuggle 4 tonnes of hashish from Sidon to the Egyptian port of Alexandria, a presidency statement said on Saturday. Lebanon's leaders have ...

Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar said Monday that authorities dismantled a network that was preparing to smuggle hashish and the illicit stimulant captagon to Saudi Arabia. The Barron's news ...