IntroductionLebanon is characterized by a cultural identity of ethnic and religious diversity due to its location at the crossroads of the Arab hinterland and the Mediterranean basin (Choueiri, 2013). After the country's independence from France in 1943, the political system of "confessionalism" was established, allowing power sharing between the different religious communities located in the region. Lebanon's capital, Beirut, serves as a regional center for trade and finance. Since independence, Lebanon has experienced alternation of political stability, prosperity and political unrest (Fisk, 2012). Lebanon is located between Israel to the south and Syria to the east and north. Instability in Middle Eastern countries, such as Israel and Syria, often spills over into Lebanon, causing different cases of external aggression, political assassinations, collapse of national government and civil war like war of Lebanon of 2006, the Lebanon conflict of 2007-2008 and various cases of sectarianism. violence (Marshall, 2012). This article seeks to assess current events in Lebanon, their impact on the country, and the importance of Lebanon to the United States. The document will also give a predictive analysis of Lebanon in the short and long term. Current Events Over the Past Three Years Over the past three years, Lebanon has experienced a period of social unrest and sectarian tensions (Preston, 2014). Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Lebanon has seen its share of skirmishes. The Syrian war has led to a division between Shiites who support the Syrian government led by Assad and Sunni Muslims who support the Syrian rebels. This turmoil led to a...... middle of paper ......on Books.Hersh, S. (2010). Look at Lebanon. The New Yorker, 21. Marshall, J. (2012). The Lebanese associate corruption, civil war and international drug trafficking. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Preston, M. (2014). Ending the civil war in Rhodesia and Lebanon in perspective. London New York New York: Tauris Academic Studies distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan. Rolland, J. (2013). Lebanon: current issues and context. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Sibai, A.M., Sen, K., Baydoun, M., and Saxena, P. (2014). Population aging in Lebanon: current situation, future prospects and policy implications. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 82(3), 219-225.Walley, CD (2012). Some outstanding questions in the geology of Lebanon and their importance in the tectonic evolution of the Levantine region. Tectonophysics, 298(1), 37-62.