BEIRUT, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed four people, including a child, in southern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported, citing the health ministry, in two separate strikes that the Israeli military said targeted members of the Shi'ite Muslim armed group Hezbollah.

Israelis forces have seized a local Sunni Islamist politician and an ally of the Palestinian militant Hamas group and took him to Israel for questioning.

Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether to use that stockpile to restore a crippled economy while its citizens are looking at go

Russia and Lebanon are preparing to restart the trade and economic dialogue and return the bilateral agenda to a practical course. Against the background of the ongoing airstrikes by the IDF, the socio-economic situation in Lebanon remains extremely difficult, which directly affects the possibilities of foreign economic cooperation.

The formerly Syrian-administered area, conquered by Israel in 1967, has been the site of many Hezbollah-related incidents, which have reinforced its importance for national defense. On February 9,

U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon say they have faced increased violence from Israeli forces over the past year.

Lebanon and Syria have signed an agreement to transfer over 300 Syrian detainees from Lebanese prisons to continue their sentences in Syria

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health expressed “great surprise” on Sunday following Kuwait’s announcement that it had added eight Lebanese hospitals to its national terrorism sanctions list. In a statement,