• Lebanese newspaper al-Nahar said that after Israel threatened to bomb Beirut if the Katyusha rockets continued, Rice directly intervened through the American embassy in Lebanon. (ynetnews.com)
  • A previous Israeli leaflet, warning residents to leave Tyre (epa) August 10, 2006 -- Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over parts of Beirut today, saying Israel intends to widen its offensive on the Lebanese capital. (rferl.org)
  • Hezbollah, which has threatened to avenge the "massacres" of Lebanese by Israel, DENIED however that it was involved the Haifa attack. (blogspot.com)
  • Lebanese authorities have so far granted one of them permission to sail first to Cyprus and not directly to Gaza because Lebanon and Israel are technically at war. (jpost.com)
  • A Lebanese official said that Lebanon had sent a letter to the UN holding Israel responsible for any attack on the ships and that it cannot stop ships from leaving its ports if they comply with its law. (jpost.com)
  • Beirut VI (Patriarchate) was a site discovered while building on the property of the Lebanese Evangelical School for Girls in the Patriarchate area of Beirut. (wikipedia.org)
  • Controversy arose on 26 June 2012 when authorization was given by Lebanese Minister of Culture Gaby Layoun for a private company called Venus Towers Real Estate Development Company to destroy the ruins (archaeological site BEY194) in the $500 million construction project of three skyscrapers and a garden behind Hotel Monroe in downtown Beirut. (wikipedia.org)
  • BEIRUT, Oct 28 (Reuters) - A new series of lawsuits filed by Lebanese ex-government officials on Thursday threatened once again to stall an investigation into the devastating Beirut port blast that has faced fierce opposition from the political establishment. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Lebanese riot police cleared dozens of protesters camps in Downtown Beirut on Friday evening as the country's curfew measures came into effect, local media reported. (arabnews.com)
  • The crisis today requires banking prudence or…else we may, in the end, be before a new May 7," the report threatened, referring to May 7, 2008, when Hezbollah fighters took over West Beirut in response to the Lebanese government's decision to shut down Hezbollah's telecommunications network and remove Hezbollah sympathizer Wafic Shkeir from his post as security chief at Beirut's international airport. (thetower.org)
  • Former Lebanese premier Tammam Salam has denied receiving correspondence or information about the arrival of hazardous chemical materials shipment in Beirut, which allegedly caused a deadly blast in the capital on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Earlier, media reports suggested that a Lebanese court had ordered the ship to unload its cargo at the Beirut port when Salam was the prime minister. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • As the municipal elections draw closer, concerns are increasing among the Christian forces, notably the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces, in the Beirut municipality. (lbcgroup.tv)
  • Exactly one week before the Beirut blast, Israel co-Prime Minister Benny Gantz publicly ordered the Israel Defense Forces to prepare to bomb Lebanese infrastructure. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Relatives of the victims weep over the coffins in the town of Ainata, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (fox8.com)
  • A Lebanese woman and her three grand daughters were laid to rest in their hometown in southern Lebanon two days after they were killed in an Israeli drone strike while in a car near the Lebanon-Israel border. (fox8.com)
  • BLIDA, Lebanon (AP) - A top U.S. envoy said in Beirut Tuesday that Washington doesn't want the ongoing war in Gaza to expand to Lebanon after a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters were killed in an Israeli strike two days ago. (fox8.com)
  • Hochstein's comments came as the Israeli military and Hezbollah exchanged fire on Tuesday following what Israel said was the targeting of one of its posts along the Lebanese border. (fox8.com)
  • Israel has approached Lebanon through international security and diplomatic channels and has offered the Lebanese government medical and humanitarian assistance," a written statement from Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • A pair of explosions rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday, leaving at least 100 people dead and more than 4,000 injured, according to figures supplied by the country's health minister. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Two huge explosion rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, wounding dozens of people, shaking buildings and sending huge plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. (alarabiya.net)
  • Valarie Fakhoury, a British grandmother with her Lebanese daughter and granddaughter, stand outside the emergency ward of a hospital in the Hamra district of central Beirut. (alarabiya.net)
  • A man is evacuated from a boat following of an explosion near the port in the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, 2020. (alarabiya.net)
  • A wounded man receives help outside a hospital following an explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, 2020. (alarabiya.net)
  • After the fighting in the Lebanese Civil War had led to the destruction of several of Beirut 's famous luxury hotels like the Holiday Inn, Phoenicia, St Georges, the Commodore became the news media's hotel of choice. (aljazeera.com)
  • A Lebanese woman walks over the rubble in her apartment in the neighborhood of Gemmayze on August 5, 2020, a day after a blast in Beirut killed more than 100 people and wounded over 5,000. (alarabiya.net)
  • Last year an upscale, subterranean Japanese restaurant designed by the Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury opened in Beirut. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • In addition to being the only Arab actor having inflicted military defeats on Israel in 2000 and 2006, Hezbollah had also become part and parcel of the Lebanese political structure through a process of integration starting in the 1990s. (lu.se)
  • The US didn't honour its word and three weeks after the PLO evacuation they withdrew the multinational force giving the green light to Israel to invade West Beirut and massacre the Palestinians in the camps. (inminds.co.uk)
  • 7:40] Finally the cease-fire came and we were able to make our way across the green-line in to West Beirut. (inminds.co.uk)
  • Located deep in West Beirut, it was tucked between taller buildings that usually took the brunt of shell and mortar fire. (aljazeera.com)
  • They, like others in West Beirut, were subject to Israel's indiscriminate shelling. (aljazeera.com)
  • The siege and bombardment of West Beirut lasted for seventy-three days. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • Israeli warplanes also dropped leaflets over northern Israel, warning that trucks could face attack after 1700 UTC along the coast road linking Lebanon to Syria. (rferl.org)
  • Earlier today, Israeli troops pushed deeper into Lebanon, seizing the town of Marjayoun, about 9 kilometers from the border with Israel. (rferl.org)
  • Hezbollah fighters have been on full alert along Lebanon's borders with Israel following last Saturday's attack by the militant Palestinian group Hamas that left hundreds of Israeli civilians and soldiers dead. (ktla.com)
  • On Saturday, the Israeli military said an Israeli drone strike along the border with Lebanon killed a "cell" that was trying to infiltrate into Israel. (ktla.com)
  • In a wave of strikes Friday, Israeli jets hit an airport hangar and fuel tanks, pounded Hezbollah's command headquarters in the Shiite-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut and a Palestinian guerrilla base in eastern Lebanon, as well as bridges and roads. (blogspot.com)
  • Back in 1983 French and American forces entered and took up positions along the coastal plain of Lebanon between Beirut and Israeli forces to the south. (csmonitor.com)
  • Journalist Richard Silverstein, a highly regarded reporter on Israeli affairs, wrote on August 4: "A confidential highly informed Israeli source has told me that Israel caused the massive explosion at the Beirut port earlier today. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Meyssan and others have pointed out that photos of the Beirut blast show a smoke mushroom cloud almost identical to those of similar Israeli bombs dropped on Syria. (americanfreepress.net)
  • A few hours before the Beirut explosion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Lebanon and Hezbollah, saying that Israel's foes should know "we will do what is necessary in order to defend ourselves. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Two years earlier, on Sept. 27, 2018, Netanyahu had stood before the United Nations brandishing a satellite photo of an alleged Hezbollah arms depot near the Port of Beirut, with arrows pointing to where the Israeli missile would hit. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Netanyahu's barely disguised admission of guilt was one of many Israeli statements predicting or taking credit for the Beirut terror attack. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Hochstein said he heard Berri's concerns over the tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border where fighters of the militant group Hezbollah and their allies have been exchanging fire with Israeli troops for about a month, after the Israel-Hamas war started on Oct.7, following the Palestinian militant group's surprise attacks. (fox8.com)
  • Hezbollah said in a statement it targeted artillery in northern Israel in retaliation for the Israeli drone strike late Monday on the outskirts of the southern village of Aramta, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the border, and is a Hezbollah stronghold. (fox8.com)
  • Meanwhile, Israel has denied involvement in the explosion, Reuters cited an Israeli official as saying. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Israel has offered humanitarian assistance to Lebanon after a massive explosion rocked its capital Beirut on Tuesday, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said, reports Reuters . (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • The American and the Israeli national flags can be seen outside the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel December 5, 2017. (sawtbeirut.com)
  • While the visa-free travel agreement between Israel and the United States has sparked optimism for smoother trips for Palestinian-Americans, many still express concerns about discriminatory treatment by Israeli authorities. (sawtbeirut.com)
  • Speaking on condition of anonymity, an Israeli official said Israel "had nothing to do" with the explosion. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • But in 1982, on the television she saw the relentless bombing of Beirut by Israeli planes. (inminds.co.uk)
  • 8:10] The coast line of the beautiful city of Beirut - also known as the pearl of the Middle-East - was shelled by Israeli gun boats and reduced to wreckage. (inminds.co.uk)
  • Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar told Tel Aviv radio 103 FM there was "unequivocally no" encroachment by Israel. (alarabiyapost.com)
  • But life for the journalists staying at the Commodore was tough, especially under the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the 70-day siege of Beirut in 1982. (aljazeera.com)
  • The Beirut siege was an eye-opener for many correspondents who had only eaten the Israeli story until then. (aljazeera.com)
  • Following the Israeli withdrawal from Beirut in 1982, Christian and Muslim militias tussled for control of different Beirut districts, with the Commodore in the middle of the mayhem. (aljazeera.com)
  • With indirect Israeli support, the Maronite Phalange forces massacred Palestinian refugees in the Sabra-Shatila camps of Beirut. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • A semiannual journal devoted to multidisciplinary scholarship on Israeli history, politics, society, and culture, with emphasis on the current State of Israel, including the effect of events in the Diaspora communities. (lu.se)
  • august 2020 lenket til det Moldova-flaggede lastfartøyet MV Rhosus, som i oktober 2013 søkte havn i Beirut med motortrøbbel. (wikipedia.org)
  • A wounded man is helped by a fireman near the scene of an explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020. (alarabiya.net)
  • Wounded people walk near the scene of an explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020. (alarabiya.net)
  • An injured girl lies in the back of a car in the Hamra district in the centre of Lebanon's capital Beirut on August 4, 2020, in the aftermath of an explosion at the port of Beirut. (alarabiya.net)
  • Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters in Beirut that Lebanon's Hezbollah group has taken all the scenarios of a war into consideration and Israel should stop its attacks on Gaza as soon as possible. (ktla.com)
  • Despite threats, Lebanon's LGBTQ+ community is moving forward with Beirut Pride, an initiative celebrating tolerance and respect. (al-monitor.com)
  • A semi-official Iranian news agency issued a report threatening Lebanon's banking sector if it complied with a U.S. sanctions law targeting Hezbollah just hours before a bomb exploded outside a Beirut bank on Sunday, NOW Media news reported on Monday. (thetower.org)
  • The comments from Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden come during a previously unannounced visit to Beirut to discuss the volatile situation with Lebanon's parliament speaker and caretaker prime minister. (fox8.com)
  • Israel has reportedly carried out several air strikes in neighboring Syria since the start of the four-year civil war there, mostly destroying weaponry that were destined for Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hezbollah, Israel's long-time foe. (ynetnews.com)
  • In the wake of the massive blast on August 4 that leveled the Port of Beirut and damaged much of the city, killing over 150 people and injuring more than 6,000, Trump said that he had spoken to "our generals" who said it was a bombing attack. (americanfreepress.net)
  • The Beirut blast may be the opening salvo of what could become a regional nuclear genocide. (americanfreepress.net)
  • What Caused the Blast in Beirut? (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Kamal Mouzawak -hotelier, the restaurateur behind Tawlet , and creator of Beirut's first farmers' market-was in Beit Douma about an hour north of Beirut when the blast went off. (afar.com)
  • BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, June 6 (Reuters) - Lebanon said on Monday it would invite a U.S. mediator to Beirut for negotiations over a disputed maritime boundary with Israel to prevent any escalation, after accusing Israel of encroaching on contested waters. (alarabiyapost.com)
  • BEIRUT (AP) - Iran's foreign minister on Saturday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle, and that would make Israel suffer "a huge earthquake. (ktla.com)
  • Amirabdollahian discussed in Beirut on Saturday the situation in Gaza and the region with the top Hamas official in exile, Saleh Arouri, and the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, Ziad Nakhaleh, according to Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV. (ktla.com)
  • BEIRUT - Lebanon said Wednesday that it will hold Israel responsible for any attack against blockade-busting aid ships planning to sail to Gaza in coming days. (jpost.com)
  • Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned Beirut last week about boats setting sail for Gaza from Lebanon. (jpost.com)
  • Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah met in Beirut on Tuesday, as the Gaza-based terror chief held a series of high-level meetings around the Arab world. (cufi.org)
  • The two were said to discuss the recent 11-day bout of fighting between Israel and Gaza-based terror groups led by Hamas, and how they could build on the experience of the latest round of violence. (cufi.org)
  • South Africa has pulled its diplomats from Israel, expressing strong disapproval of Israel's campaign against Hamas in Gaza. (sawtbeirut.com)
  • On October 7, Hamas militants launched a catastrophic assault on southern Israel, which set off the Gaza War. (sawtbeirut.com)
  • The clashes along the border have intensified since Israel launched a ground incursion into Gaza against Palestinian militant group Hamas, an ally of Hezbollah. (fox8.com)
  • Lara Abu Hamda, 18, tried unsuccessfully in July to cross from Jordan to Israel for the onward land journey to Gaza. (sawtbeirut.com)
  • For those living in Gaza, obtaining permission to leave through Israel is incredibly difficult. (sawtbeirut.com)
  • In Gaza City, Saeed Araf Shaath said his family is "very, very excited" at the prospect of finally being able to enter Israel through the Erez crossing as Palestinian-Americans, and fly out from Ben Gurion airport. (sawtbeirut.com)
  • Hamas officials have repeatedly said that last Saturday's attack on southern Israel that killed over 1,300 civilians and troops was the work of the Palestinian group and Iran had nothing to do with it. (ktla.com)
  • More than 5,400 Palestinian-Americans have arrived in Israel since July 20, according to the Population and Immigration Authority. (sawtbeirut.com)
  • As a fundamentalist Christian, I had been a supporter of Israel, hated Arabs and saw the Palestinian Liberation Organisation as terrorists to be loathed and feared. (inminds.co.uk)
  • When the war broke out in 1975 between right-wing Christian parties supported by Israel and the United States fighting left-wing Muslim groups allied with Yasser Arafat 's Palestinian Liberation Organisation ( PLO ), Beirut's hotel district became a war zone. (aljazeera.com)
  • The Commodore provided easier access to the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps and so journalists were able to witness first-hand the mass killing in the camps, perpetrated by Christian Phalangists and supported by Israel . (aljazeera.com)
  • Two explosions, which were felt as far away as Cyprus, struck Beirut today razing the city's port, shattering windows, and destroying nearby buildings. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Two explosions in Beirut leave over 100 dead and thousands injured, China pushes back against the United States over TikTok , and Sri Lankans go to the polls in what could be decisive parliamentary elections . (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Apart from the thousands of injured and more than 130 dead after Tuesday's massive explosions at the Port of Beirut, hundreds of thousands are left without homes when many were already struggling to pay the rent. (alarabiya.net)
  • Beirut was settled over 5,000 years ago, and there is evidence that the surrounding area had already been inhabited for tens of thousands of years prior to this. (wikipedia.org)
  • The protest camps have been a permanent fixture in Downtown Beirut since nationwide anti-government protests erupted on Oct. 17 last year. (arabnews.com)
  • Protests rage in Beirut on July 15, 2021. (asiatimes.com)
  • 3:20] I've called it 'From Beirut to Jerusalem' because within my own heart I share this fervent wish that one day the Palestinians will be able to return from the refugee camps in Lebanon, that my friends can go back to al-Aqsa and pray as their forefathers had. (inminds.co.uk)
  • Meanwhile, based on this pretext Israelis play 'bombs away' in Beirut. (blogspot.com)
  • Egypt, one of only two Arab nations to have a peace treaty with Israel, has long been seen as a key strategic ally and a cornerstone to regional stability. (gulfnews.com)
  • MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World (and their diasporas) from the seventh century to modern times. (lu.se)
  • Many Muslims in Beirut also consider Christmas to be part of their culture. (euronews.com)
  • Essentially, Israel has been bragging for years that it is planning to drop nuclear weapons on cities full of civilians. (americanfreepress.net)
  • While Israel continues to destroy Lebanon, this crucial denial by Hizbullah was buried towards the end of the news report. (blogspot.com)
  • Barak, reflecting serious concern about the boats that Israel has linked to Hizbullah activists, said Lebanon had a responsibility to prevent the boats from being loaded with arms and ammunition, "which could lead to a violent and dangerous confrontation in the event that the boat refuses to come to Ashdod. (jpost.com)
  • The siege of Beirut lasted for 70 days, Beirut was subjected a relentless barrage of air, naval, and artillery bombardment. (inminds.co.uk)
  • President Jacques Chirac of France, the former colonial power in Lebanon, said Israel appeared to "wish to destroy" Lebanon. (blogspot.com)
  • I warned them that this could destroy Beirut if it exploded," said the official, who was involved in writing the letter. (israel365news.com)
  • The southern suburbs of Beirut are a bastion of Hezbollah, a Shiite armed group active in Syria and other conflict-ridden countries. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • The possibility of a new front in Lebanon brings back bitter memories of a vicious monthlong war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 that ended in a stalemate and a tense detente between the two sides. (ktla.com)
  • Hezbollah and Israel fought a 34-day war in 2006 in which hundreds of people were killed. (ynetnews.com)
  • If you go back to the assassination of Rafiq Hariri you can see how Israel was maneuvering to have the Syrians removed from Lebanon in preparation for their attacks. (blogspot.com)
  • We felt it was like an earthquake," Beirut resident Hussein Harakeh told the DPA news agency. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • It seems that Israel all but announced that it was going to drop a nuclear bomb on the Port of Beirut and then carried out its threat. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Olmert had ordered the army to intensify the offensive after a barrage of rockets hit towns in northern Israel, including the Mediterranean port city of Haifa, killing two people. (blogspot.com)
  • The Phoenician port of Beirut was located between Rue Foch and Rue Allenby on the north coast. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thierry Meyssan, a former French intelligence operative who is now close to Syrian intelligence, reported on August 7 that Israel destroyed the Port of Beirut using "a missile with a tactical nuclear component in its warhead" similar to those Israel has already used repeatedly in Syria and against Iranian naval targets in the Persian Gulf. (americanfreepress.net)
  • Israel HAS nukes, Iran does not. (blogspot.com)
  • Unfortunately, if a few nukes hit Europe, people have already been psychologically prepped to automatically blame Iran, even though any such nukes would be launched by Israel. (blogspot.com)
  • Lebanon is home to the heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah group, which has previously warned Israel against drilling in the disputed area until the issue is resolved. (alarabiyapost.com)
  • The price asked by Israel to stop the destruction of Beirut was for the 14,000 PLO fighters to abandon the city - leaving behind their families. (inminds.co.uk)
  • Israel, which has sparred with Hezbollah in recent weeks and has carried out attacks in Beirut before, deflected blame. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In the decades prior to the upheavals, Hezbollah had experienced an extraordinary evolution from being a relatively marginal guerrilla force, conducting sporadic attacks against its arch-enemy Israel in reaction to the latter's military aggression on Lebanon in the late 1970s to early 1980s, into a mature organization, social movement and political party. (lu.se)
  • On Friday, Hezbollah said its fighters fired several rockets at four Israel positions along the border. (ktla.com)
  • And so you could be there and it's quite bizarre, you could be in a safe enclave and then you went out into a very grave civil war," says Jonathan Dimbleby, who went to Beirut as a young correspondent for ITV. (aljazeera.com)
  • Police said five people were killed on Friday, bringing to 62 the death toll in Lebanon since Israel unleashed what the military has called "Operation Just Reward. (blogspot.com)
  • A statement posted on the Beirut Pride website says, "Beirut Pride is a happy, friendly, constructive platform that invites people to express themselves, in an attempt to contribute to our liberation from the destructive hate that poisons our country and forces many fellow citizens out toward other countries that guarantee their basic rights. (al-monitor.com)
  • It was a microcosm of an Israel where people could hold onto principles, but still find creative ways for coexistence. (belalcazar.org)
  • The damage to buildings was so widespread that an estimated 200,000 and 250,000 people have lost their homes , according to Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The cognitive deficits were tions are defined here as people aged 65 en were more likely to be depressed severe, their functional status was poor or older with at least one restriction in and suffer memory impairment and and nutritional status was impaired. (who.int)
  • Since mid-July, Israel has been battling Hizballah guerrillas in southern Lebanon and carrying out punishing air strikes throughout the country. (rferl.org)
  • Fatah guerrillas in the south conducted strikes in northern Israel, which led to several acts of retaliation. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • Israel rarely confirms such strikes. (ynetnews.com)
  • The proposed Article 12 calls for the election of municipal council members in Beirut based on the approved districts for electing members of parliament and electing municipal members equally between Beirut's first and second districts, with twelve members in each district, within one municipal council, as it currently stands. (lbcgroup.tv)
  • Emirates is the most popular airline that flies from London Stansted to Beirut. (netflights.com)
  • In a statement on Sunday, Salam's media office said reports alleging that he was aware of the arrival of a ship carrying chemical materials to Beirut were "false and bare of truth. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • 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. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a piece in which he raises the possibility that terrorist Imad Mugniyah's death was faked (a possibility I would discount), CNN's John Clancy reveals that the famous picture of TWA pilot John Testrake aboard hijacked Flight 847 in Beirut (see top left) was faked . (blogspot.com)
  • This is the shortest flight time from London Stansted to Beirut. (netflights.com)
  • Generally speaking, the flight from London Stansted to Beirut takes around 12 hrs 10 mins. (netflights.com)
  • I lived in two countries in the Middle East from the late 1970s to the late 1980s - Lebanon and Israel - that maintained their stability for years by respecting that principle. (belalcazar.org)
  • Lebanon and Israel have two big features in common: They are really small in geography and incredibly diverse in population - religiously diverse, ethnically diverse, politically diverse, linguistically diverse, educationally diverse. (belalcazar.org)
  • With an eye toward Hezbollah, President Joe Biden has warned other players in the Middle East not to join the conflict and has sent American warships to the region and vowed full support for Israel. (ktla.com)
  • The Carnegie Middle East Center is an independent policy research institute based in Beirut, Lebanon, and part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (lu.se)
  • On Dec. 4, 28 aircraft from US carriers patrolling offshore bombed Syrian military positions in the Lebanon range of mountains to the east of Beirut. (csmonitor.com)
  • Beirut IV (Furn esh-Shebbak, river banks) was also on the left bank of the river and on either side of the road leading eastwards from the Furn esh Shebbak police station towards the river that marked the city limits. (wikipedia.org)
  • Before the war, Beirut was the only city in the region offering a full spectrum of services and resources like banking, excellent educational and medical facilities and fine dining and entertainment. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • Amirabdollahian left Beirut on Saturday afternoon following a tour that took him to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, where Tehran enjoys wide influence. (ktla.com)
  • Beirut III (Furn esh-Shebbak), listed as Plateau Tabet, was suggested to have been located on the left bank of the Beirut River. (wikipedia.org)
  • Beirut V (Nahr Beirut, Beirut River) was discovered by Dillenseger and said to be in an orchard of mulberry trees on the left bank of the river, near the river mouth, and to be close to the railway station and bridge to Tripoli. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bracelets being handed out as part of the Beirut Pride event are seen in this photo uploaded May 12, 2017. (al-monitor.com)
  • Several prehistoric archaeological sites have been discovered within the urban area of Beirut, revealing flint tools from sequential periods dating from the Middle Palaeolithic and Upper Paleolithic through the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. (wikipedia.org)
  • Beirut VII, the Rivoli Cinema and Byblos Cinema sites near the Bourj in the Rue el Arz area, are two sites discovered by Lorraine Copeland, Peter Wescombe, and Marina Hayek in 1964 and examined by Diana Kirkbride and Roger Saidah. (wikipedia.org)
  • Middle Bronze Age tombs were found in this area, and the ancient tell of Beirut is thought to be in the Bourj area. (wikipedia.org)
  • In one case, in an eastern area of Beirut, doctors were pictured treating the wounded in the car park. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • That same idea was part of a story I still tell about our presence in Beirut, in an area covered with the foxholes and bunkers that we and the other militaries had dug. (jewishpolicycenter.org)