Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is urging the judiciary to issue a long-awaited indictment over the 2020 Beirut port blast, as the country marks six years since the catastrophe which killed over 200 ...
Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, Lebanon – Every year on August 4 since 2020, families of the victims of a massive explosion at Beirut port gather outside the site of what was one of the largest non-nuclear ...
Minutes before the detonation, the Beirut Fire Brigade was dispatched to extinguish a blaze at the port’s Hangar 12. Among the crew were Sahar Fares, a nurse who had become the brigade’s first female ...
The 2020 Beirut explosion was one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in modern history, but the disaster had been building for ...
Families of victims of the Beirut port blast marked six years since the explosion by demanding truth and accountability. No ...
Last summer an explosion rocked Beirut. This month we asked our correspondent to return to those streets to meet the people rebuilding the Lebanese capital. Since the devastating blast at the port of ...
This is a personal essay. On August 4, 2020, I was at home when the city entered my house without knocking. Not Beirut the postcard. Not Beirut the metaphor. Not the tirelessly resurrected Beirut ...