For five years, the mystery of the ammonium nitrate that exploded at the Beirut port has remained unsolved. Public opinion remains divided. Some blame Hezbollah for the presence of the ammonium ...

Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that Prosecutor General Judge Jamal Hajjar held a lengthy meeting with Judge Tarek ...

Friends and relatives of the victims of the 2020 Beirut port blast carry portraits of their deceased relatives as they gather outside the port to commemorate Monday he fifth anniversary of the massive ...

As part of his visit to Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut port explosion — the largest nonnuclear blast in modern history. For William Noun, the brother of a ...

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.

The destroyed silos in the port of Beirut on 1 August 2025, five years after the colossal explosion of 4 August 2020. Five years after the deadly explosion at Beirut’s port on 4 August 2020, many ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hundreds of Lebanese gathered solemnly near Beirut's coast on Monday to commemorate a half-decade since the cataclysmic port blast of 2020, when more than 200 people were killed in ...

With a silent march, moving testimonies, and the symbolic planting of 75 trees in honor of the victims, Lebanon commemorated on Aug. 4 the fifth anniversary of the devastating explosion that rocked ...

On 4 August, 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut, the Lebanese capital city, exploded, causing more than 190 deaths, 6,500 injuries, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people ...

I was overwhelmed with the ignominy of living Lebanese,” says Raja, the main character in Rabih Alameddine’s seventh novel, the day after the 2020 Beirut port explosion. Raja has a sweeping brush in ...