Lebanese Calgarians have been glued to screens and TVs watching the aftermath of a massive explosion that destroyed a huge part of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday. The blast happened in Beirut's ...

On a warm, clear August day in Beirut, Lebanon, five years ago, the lives of countless residents of the Middle Eastern coastal metropolis — including the city’s numerous Christians — changed forever.

BEIRUT (RNS) — On Aug. 4, 2020, Melvine Khoury and her brother watched curiously from the window of their home in Achrafieh as smoke and fire rose from the port of Beirut. Just as they started to ...

The investigative judge in the Beirut Port explosion case, Tarek Bitar, has concluded his investigations into the case and ...

A Bulgarian court has rejected Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, a Russian-Cypriot shipowner wanted in connection with the 2020 Beirut port explosion, a hammer blow for the city that ...

Five years after the August 4, 2020 explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history, families of the 236 people killed and more than 7,000 wounded say they are still waiting for truth and ...

BEIRUT, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Five years after losing her daughter in a devastating chemical explosion at Beirut's port, Nelly El Helou said Pope Leo's silent prayer at the site on Tuesday was enough to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke rose into the sky above Beirut early Monday following an explosion in the Lebanese capital as tensions with Israel continued ...

As Pope Leo XIV was wrapping up his first apostolic trip to Turkey and Lebanon recently, the world was moved by the sight of a young Lebanese woman crying and hugging the pontiff as he was meeting ...

A statue of a woman by Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer, made out of rubble and a broken clock marking the time (6:08 PM) of the mega explosion at the port of Beirut, stands opposite the site of the blast ...

BEIRUT (RNS) — Survivors of the 2020 Beirut port explosion say they are still waiting for the truth as Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to become ‘a home of justice and fraternity.’ BEIRUT (RNS) — On Aug. 4 ...

Court cites lack of security guarantees from Lebanon Grechushkin detained in Bulgaria, wanted by Lebanon Lebanon's blast probe hindered by political interference SOFIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - A Bulgarian ...