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 ...

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 who ...

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 ...

MP Hassan Fadlallah denied Thursday that Hezbollah is smuggling arms through the port of Beirut, describing these claims as "lies". Al-Arabiya television had quoted Tuesday a Western security source ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A senior U.S. envoy visited Beirut on Saturday amid a fragile ceasefire with Israel and mounting U.S. pressure on Lebanon to rein in the militant Hezbollah group, urging the Lebanese ...