The Latest Breaking News from Beirut

We watch video after video, consuming the world on our handheld devices in bites of two minutes, one minute, 30 seconds, 15. We turn to moving pictures — “film” — because it comes the closest to approximating the world that we see and experience. This is, after all, 2024, and…

Iran’s military suggests it would prioritise an agreement to end fighting in Gaza and Lebanon over any retaliation

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In a visit to the region, secretary of state Antony Blinken said the US was working to progress ceasefire talks for Gaza and Lebanon

Learn about the precision SPICE bomb used in Israeli airstrike in Beirut, minimizing collateral damage.

France offers 100 million euros aid to help Lebanon recover from Beirut explosion. President Macron expresses solidarity with Lebanon in the wake of the de...

Conference convened by French president raises $800m in humanitarian aid and $200m to strengthen Lebanese army

The Israeli military said Thursday it hit Hezbollah weapons production facilities in the group's south Beirut bastion, in some of the fiercest strikes on the area since the Lebanon war began.

Lebanese state media report an Israeli strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs; Doctors of the World official laments lack of action for people in Gaza

Inside what was once one of Beirut’s oldest and best-known cinemas, dozens of Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians displaced by the Israel-Hezbollah war now spend their time following the news on their phones, cooking, chatting or walking around to pass the time

Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold on Wednesday night, Lebanese state media said, as the Iran-Hezbollah war reached its one-month mark.