Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse - has been blamed for the explosion that ripped through the port ...

The Lebanese government has resigned amid growing public anger following a devastating explosion in Beirut on 4 August that killed at least 200 people and injured around 5,000 others. Here is what ...

The Port of Beirut and customs office are notorious ... Experts say they expect these to intensify in the aftermath of the explosion, despite the risk from the pandemic. Dr Lina Khatib, director ...

I found out later I had fractured my arm. The energy wave which emanated from the explosion caused windows to shatter and ceilings to collapse all across Beirut. Broken glass, bricks and cement rained ...

Nearly 7,000 tons of glass was shattered when a deadly explosion ripped through Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, blowing out windows and leveling entire neighborhoods. Now, as Lebanon continues to ...

Reeling from successive crises, the people of Sidon worry that the next one could come in the form of Israeli bombs. Lebanon’s FIBA World Cup journey is about much more than basketball ...

BEIRUT — Hoda al-Halabi was struggling to ... She was still seeing the explosion that rushed toward her earlier this month. She heard her daughters screaming. Her sister, screaming.

Cate Blanchett and Nadine Labaki were among the stars sending messages of support for Beirut's landmark arthouse Metropolis ...

Saint Maroun Church in Gemmayzeh has been a staple of the Lebanese Maronite community since it was built in 1875. This past ...

the city may be tumultuous and troubled, but as the designers that live there attest, it never fails to inspire ...

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