In the adjoining room, my little sister was listening to Fairuz’s “Li Beirut”, that wartime lament that was played everywhere after the 2020 explosion, at once love letter and requiem for the city.
The scene around the U.S. Marine Corps base near Beirut, Lebanon, following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base on Oct. 23, 1983. (AP Photo) Forty-one years ago today, a Hezbollah ...
Forty years ago I was evacuated from Beirut as Lebanon descended into one of the most brutal conflicts of the era. Then, as now, the Islamist militia Hezbollah was at the centre of the chaos.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with top Lebanese officials on Friday as Israeli military operations in the country continue, including deadly strikes in Beirut Thursday that left at ...
Manessa Ali, 10, surveys the damage in Dahiyeh, Beirut, in the aftermath of the October 5 Israeli strike on a medical facility on the airport road.Credit: Kate Geraghty Matthew Knott and Kate ...
Israel resumed punishing airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs and across central and southern Lebanon. More than 130 strikes targeted what Israel says were Hezbollah operatives and locations.
BEIRUT — As the sun rose on the Lebanese capital after a long night of Israeli strikes, the wreckage of five apartment blocks, just across from the city’s main public hospital, was tangled ...
Israeli jets struck the southern suburbs of Beirut early Wednesday for the first time in six days, Lebanese state media reported. The casualty count was not yet clear. The attack comes just one ...
BEIRUT — Down a quiet street in one of Beirut’s fancier neighborhoods, couples huddle over designer cocktails. The music of jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava washes over the dining room as solicitous ...
Israel has carried out at least a dozen air strikes on Beirut on Saturday in the heaviest attack the Lebanese capital witnessed in more than a week. Huge plumes of smoke were seen rising over the ...
Several large airstrikes have hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, including one on a site adjacent to Lebanon’s only international airport Several large airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs ...
BEIRUT, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Residents of the central Beirut area hit by a deadly Israeli airstrike were still in shock on Friday amid the dust, rubble and broken glass, fearing that if their ...