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 ...

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 ...

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.

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