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Families still grieve in a Lebanon engulfed in crises—and direct their rage toward the country’s entrenched ruling class.

"If we don't get a government in place quickly and they begin to provide some sort of a road map for getting out of this abyss, the only way is down." ...

Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of Lebanon’s dysfunction and official impunity as he offered words of consolation to Lebanon’s ...

Media outlets have reported the sound of an explosion in southern Lebanon, raising concerns over a possible new Israeli ...

Responding to reports alleging obstruction of any resolution to the file of Syrian detainees in Lebanon, Nassar dismisses ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to prevail, as he ...

In a report released Tuesday, Human Rights Watch concluded there was strong evidence suggesting officials knew of danger at the Beirut port.

Pope Leo XIV's first foreign trip is over. A six-day pilgrimage to the Middle East wrapped up Tuesday in Beirut. We were in conflict-torn Lebanon just a few miles from the country's Ground Zero, where ...

BEIRUT — Holy icons no longer witness Mass at Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic church in the Lebanese capital and there are no pews five years after an explosion in the main port sent a devastating ...

Lebanese determination to celebrate the end-of-year holidays was exceptional this year, despite Israel's continued strikes ...

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