This cosmopolitan mecca on the Mediterranean served during its Golden Age, from the 1950s to the 1970s, as a financial center ...

On Beirut's chaotic, car-choked streets, Lebanese student Fatima Fakih rides a shiny purple bus to university, one of a fleet ...

Now, as Lebanon prepares to begin the ... was in no position to finance the rebuilding of Beirut. Reconstruction of the once bustling city center was handed over to a private company, Solidere ...

By Christina Goldbaum and Hwaida Saad Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon The typically congested ... as the pace of strikes slowed and the city center remained largely unscathed.

When Israel struck the center ... in the city, now an emblem for the constant state of movement of the roughly 1 million people displaced by Israel’s air offensive in Lebanon which began last ...

Residents of southern Lebanon have voted in the country’s municipal elections that will test support for Hezbollah in the ...

JERUSALEM — The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of ... but had not hit locations near the city center. Israeli officials had no immediate comment.