A Lebanese judge has charged the country’s detained former central bank governor with illicit enrichment and issued an arrest ...

Riad Salameh's arrest and trial shed light on how his actions reportedly led to a power vacuum and Hezbollah's rise in ...

But for a time, the public loved the central-bank governor for steering Lebanon into the global middle class after its civil ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon charged the country’s former central bank governor with illicit enrichment and issued an arrest warrant against the detained banker, the second in less than two months ...

Israel’s air force pounded Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh overnight, destroying dozens of buildings in several ...

Central bank governor Wassim Mansouri, who had previously expressed his commitment to keeping Lebanon off the FATF grey list, is currently in the United States for the International Monetary Fund and ...

It is not regulated by the central bank and is not part of the international banking system. Since its founding in the early 1980s, Hezbollah has been a significant force in Lebanon, wielding ...

Central bank governor Wassim Mansouri said in August he was working to keep Lebanon off the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) grey list, which is likely to be a further deterrent to investment ...

As Israel battles on two fronts—Gaza and Lebanon—its economy faces a severe blow. The Bank of Israel has drastically cut growth projections, expecting only 0.5% growth in 2024, down from ...