Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifth anniversary of the explosion in the port of Beirut BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hundreds of Lebanese gathered solemnly near Beirut's coast on Monday to commemorate a half-decade since the ...

BEIRUT — Sarah Copland recalls the day vividly. She and her 2-year-old son Isaac were in the living room of their Beirut apartment eating dinner when they heard a loud bang. “I didn’t know what it was,” she said. Minutes later, a second, more ...

Smoke rose into the sky above Beirut early Monday following an explosion in the Lebanese capital as tensions with Israel continued.

Israeli strikes across southern Beirut and its suburbs have left multiple casualties, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. A strike in the town of Aramoun reportedly killed three people and wounded a child,

Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wrapped up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Tuesday. He also met with relatives of some of the 218 victims of the blast on Aug. 4, 2020. The explosion ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's health minister says more than 70 people were killed and more than 3,000 were injured in the huge explosion that rocked Beirut. The blast Tuesday flattened much of the city's port, damaging buildings across the capital and ...