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BEIRUT: Amnesty International said on Tuesday (Aug 26) that the Israeli army's extensive destruction of civilian property in ...
Shut for decades, the revered Le Colisee cinema in Beirut's Hamra district will reopen its doors in September. Its return is ...
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are ready to invest in an economic zone in south Lebanon. This zone aims to create jobs for Hezbollah ...
With its mission up for renewal, the U.N. force is under pressure to disband even as Israeli airstrikes continue along one of ...
On Aug. 25, 1982, U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered the deployment of the Marines to Beirut amid the Lebanese Civil War.
The Lebanese government has committed to disarm all groups possessing heavy weapons, most notably Hezbollah, in a historic ...
Lebanese leaders firmly rejected any efforts at foreign interference during a visit by Iran's security chief Wednesday, with ...
Lebanon has seen bad days before. And while the bombing in Beirut on Friday takes place in the context of a changing Middle East — ...
Damascus' hold on Lebanon began to slip in 2005, when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in truck bomb along Beirut's Mediterranean waterfront. Syria denied having any role.
_ Oct. 19, 2012: A car bomb kills the chief of Lebanon’s police intelligence department, Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, in a Christian neighborhood in east Beirut.