Syria’s new authorities have started probing “the involvement of the former Syrian regime in cooperation with Iran-backed Lebanese militias” in “the import and smuggling of the ammonium nitrate” of ...
In 2023, then-chief prosecutor Ghassan Oweidat ordered the release of 17 detainees, including port and customs officials, who had been held in pre-trial detention since the explosion. Bitar and legal ...
Some who left the country in successive waves of emigration have felt drawn back to aid recovery efforts after the bloody and ...
He created a 300-person Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant choir and orchestra. Then he took a break.
United in grief and anger, families of the victims and several thousand Lebanese marked one year since the horrific explosion at Beirut's port with a moment of silence and prayers at the foot of ...
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese judge leading an investigation into the huge 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two port employees on Friday, resuming his probe after years of obstruction ...
On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port warehouse, killing at least 218 people, injuring more than 6,000 and devastating large swaths of the capital. The ...
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