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A huge plume of smoke could be seen over a residential area of Beirut on Friday as Israel claimed it struck Hezbollah's central headquarters in the city. "Moments ago, the Israel Defense Forces ...
It is time to stop talking about the Middle East being on the brink of a much more serious war. After the devastating Israeli attack on what it said was the Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut it ...
Different religious communities in Lebanon observed the shift independently. [8] As a result, some places or regions in Lebanon temporarily used different time zones, causing mass confusion. [citation needed] On 27 March, Lebanon's prime minister Najib Mikati announced that EEST would be used starting at midnight of 29 March. [9]
Killing or incapacitating Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah would deal a significant blow to the Iran-backed Lebanese group he has led for 32 years, analysts said on Friday after reports Israel ...
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / bay-ROOT; [3] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ / b eɪ ˈ r uː t /) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, [4] which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world.
History of Beirut. View of the Beirut Peninsula, 2015. The earliest settlement of Beirut was on an island in the Beirut River, but the channel that separated it from the banks silted up and the island ceased to be. Excavations in the downtown area have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, and Ottoman ...
Western nations were weighing their options on Thursday on how to safely get nationals out of Lebanon if a full-scale war breaks out, diplomats said, with Cyprus and possibly Turkey seen as ...
The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, [20] [21] [22] began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. The Israelis sought to end Palestinian attacks from Lebanon , destroy the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the country, and install a pro-Israel Maronite ...