Israel has repeatedly pounded Beirut's southern suburbs ... last two weeks but Thursday's raid was only the third time the ...

Israeli airstrikes hit neighbourhoods in the southern suburbs of Beirut and near the city centre on Friday, destroying buildings in Burj Barajneh and Tayouneh. Israel claimed to have targeted ...

Prior to the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), Ras Beirut and its commercial center Hamra represented the most cosmopolitan district in the city. During the Civil War the neighbourhood sustained serious ...

But the backdrop for the film wasn’t built on a sound stage, but was provided by the civil war itself: Schlöndorff shot his film in the middle of the still heavily contested, but already completely ...

TASS/. The Supreme Defense Council of Lebanon, which convened for an emergency meeting on Tuesday night, declared the country’s capital Beirut a disaster-stricken city following a powerful blast ...