Since then, I have covered the successive blows that Beirut has endured, most recently at Reuters as the bureau chief for ...

A recent report claimed that Iran has been relying on direct maritime smuggling routes to Lebanon or through an intermediary ...

BEIRUT — The Lebanese judge investigating the massive 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two former security chiefs on Friday, including a former head of the General Security Directorate who ...

Lebanon denied reports on Wednesday about weapons smuggling through Beirut's seaport, stressing that the port is "firmly under control." Addressing a news conference in Beirut, Minister of Public ...

An unnamed “Western security source” told Al Arabiya and its Al Hadath sister channel that Hezbollah is using the Port of Beirut to smuggle weapons into Lebanon from Iran. The source told Al Arabiya ...

MP Hassan Fadlallah denied Thursday that Hezbollah is smuggling arms through the port of Beirut, describing these claims as "lies". Al-Arabiya television had quoted Tuesday a Western security source ...

Lebanon’s lead investigator into the 2020 Beirut port blast has questioned two former security chiefs, including Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, who appeared in court for the first time BEIRUT -- The ...

On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port warehouse, killing at least 218 people, injuring more than 6,000 and devastating large swaths of the capital.