Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, once a hub for foreign journalists during Lebanon’s civil war, has closed amid the country’s ...

Steven Yarbrough, 44, pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated assault for 2024 shooting death of wife Catara Yarbrough. A ...

Lebanon's government has signed a deal with an international consortium for gas exploration in an offshore area bordering ...

Court cites lack of security guarantees from Lebanon Grechushkin detained in Bulgaria, wanted by Lebanon Lebanon's blast probe hindered by political interference SOFIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - A Bulgarian ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Every evening as the sun drops behind Beirut’s concrete skyline, Loubna Hamdan steps onto her rooftop and whistles. A flutter of wings follows. Dozens of pigeons — white, speckled, ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 5 (UPI) --Negotiations between Lebanon and Israel took a new turn this week, as the long-time enemies agreed to engage in direct, U.S.-backed talks -- their first in decades -- ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first official papal trip from Nov. 27–Dec. 2 to Turkey and Lebanon has just ended. The wide-ranging international visit included historic ecumenical encounters, deeply symbolic ...

BEIRUT — Holy icons no longer witness Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in the Lebanese capital and there are no pews five years after an explosion in the main port sent a devastating shock ...

BEIRUT — Pope Leo XIV ended his first overseas papal trip with prayers at Beirut's devastated port and a Mass attended by an estimated 150,000 worshippers in a country desperate for signs of hope amid ...

Beirut heard a different kind of voice on Tuesday morning. In a city still marked by the sounds of the 2024 escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to rise above violence ...

BEIRUT (RNS) — Survivors of the 2020 Beirut port explosion say they are still waiting for the truth as Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to become ‘a home of justice and fraternity.’ BEIRUT (RNS) — On Aug. 4 ...

Pope Leo XIV prays at the site of the Beirut port blast in August 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 2, 2025. (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, pool via Reuters) Pope Leo concluded his visit to Lebanon with a ...