People decorate the church in preparation for Palm Sunday in Beirut, Lebanon, April 11, 2025. Palm Sunday, a Christian feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter, marks the beginning of the Holy ...

On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port warehouse, killing at least 218 people, injuring more than 6,000 and devastating large swaths of the capital.

Lebanon’s lead investigator into the 2020 Beirut port blast has questioned two former security chiefs, including Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, who appeared in court for the first time BEIRUT -- The ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese judge investigating the massive 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two former security chiefs on Friday, including a former head of the General Security Directorate ...

It was a typical Friday lunchtime in Beirut's southern suburb. Then, a single warning, posted in Arabic on X by a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), triggered panic and chaos in the ...

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that the Hezbollah terror group is attempting to rebuild a weapons manufacturing site in Beirut’s southern suburbs and ...

Lebanon denied reports on Wednesday about weapons smuggling through Beirut's seaport, stressing that the port is "firmly under control." Addressing a news conference in Beirut, Minister of Public ...

As Lebanon braces for the upcoming International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings in Washington on April 21, pressure is mounting on the government and parliament to finalize crucial financial ...

Lebanese authorities have dismissed reports that Hezbollah is using Beirut’s port to smuggle weapons, following a Saudi report which claimed as such earlier this week. In response to the report’s ...

An unnamed “Western security source” told Al Arabiya and its Al Hadath sister channel that Hezbollah is using the Port of Beirut to smuggle weapons into Lebanon from Iran. The source told Al Arabiya ...

The meeting tackled the general situation in the country and the outcomes of the visit of the US Deputy Special Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus to Beirut. President Aoun stressed that the ...