Surrounded by a ring of mountains like a concert bandshell, Beirut has great acoustics. So yesterday’s roiling street battles in the Lebanese capitol echoed through the city with a drumbeat of rocket ...

There are a handful of gaps on the honours board at the Golf Club of Lebanon in Beirut, the capital. One is for 1982, when Israel’s army bulldozed the fairways during its siege of Beirut. The other ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Ariel Sharon says he's sorry he didn't have Yasser Arafat "liquidated" while he had a chance -- 20 years ago, during an Israeli siege of Beirut. Sharon's musings about the missed ...

This Kings and Generals documentary explores the 1982 Israel–Lebanon War, a turning point in the modern Middle East. Beginning with Lebanon's political crisis and the rise of the PLO, the episode ...

In 1982, Israel launched Operation Peace for Galilee, invading Lebanon to destroy the PLO, push Syria out, and install a friendly government in Beirut. The campaign began with rapid military success ...

As Israel's over two-month military campaign in Lebanon against Hezbollah continues, Lebanon's medical system is under strain, facing resource shortages, mass displacement, staff exhaustion, delayed ...

On Oct. 1, the Israeli military launched its fourth invasion of Lebanon in 50 years. Israel invaded the country for the first time in 1978 in response to a Palestinian Liberation Organization ...

Beirut After two months of Arabs spontaneously taking to the streets to protest against their regimes, there’s another kind of uprising going on here in Lebanon. The setting isn’t even an Arab street, ...

The Israeli army on Thursday warned residents to leave the area of Nabatiyeh — Mahmoud ZAYYAT In a south Lebanon hospital, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert peered out of the window after bombardment near ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese demonstrators blocked several roads throughout the country on Tuesday evening in protest at what they called a "siege" on the Sunni Muslim town of Arsal on the border with ...