Five years ago, the Port of Beirut blast tore through the Lebanese capital, destroying lives, livelihoods and homes.

However, the U.S. under President Donald Trump's administration is placing renewed pressure on Lebanon's new government to ...

With the fifth anniversary of Beirut’s 2020 port explosion on Monday, one might expect to see memorials and other acts of ...

Beirut is a destroyed city. It is like a real war zone." A woman carries a child as she walks past damaged shops following Tuesday's blast in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 5, 2020. AZIZ TAHER / REUTERS ...

In the City Center Mall just outside of Dahiya, a southern suburb of Beirut dominated by the Iran-backed Hezbollah, Mirna, 38, and her 14-year-old son roamed the aisles of the Carrefour grocery store.

But it goes without saying that both Lebanon’s financial and political crisis last year, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, has hit Beirut very hard.

Residents of Beirut continue to put their homes and lives back together during an economic crisis in Lebanon. Oxfam is working with local groups to help families and businesses rebuild. When Abed, a ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Tony Nohra, a shopkeeper in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, was receiving a shipment of yogurt on Friday, the day after sectarian clashes killed seven people in the city ...

Beirut has been no stranger to protest in the past months, many chanting “ thawra,” or “revolution,” as they called for a new government amidst an economic and health-care crisis.

BEIRUT — Amid the largest anti-government protests Beirut has ever seen, something unusual has been unfolding in the city’s downtown. The center of Lebanon’s largest city sorely lacks public ...

Michael Totten Iraqi police struggle to maintain law and order in Baghdad. I recently made my seventh trip to Iraq to try to answer an important question: Will the country explode after American ...