Lebanon’s military gets sweeping powers after Beirut blast Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday approved a state of emergency in Beirut in its first session since the catastrophic Aug. 4 explosion.

The blast left a scene described by one Beirut newspaper as looking like an ... "The observation of breaking of window glass at a six-mile radius will allow a TNT equivalent estimate to be made ...

According to Cyprus Mail, the echo of the blast reached the Cyprus capital of Nicosia, which is 241 km away from Beirut CAIRO, August 4. /TASS/. The blast that rocked the Lebanese capital of ...

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 blast, one of the ...

The seismic explosion that tore through Beirut on Tuesday, will have devastating consequences for a country already reeling from a financial crisis. The blast, which killed more than 100 people ...

Seventeen containers of personal protective equipment to respond to the coronavirus were also destroyed in the blast. Our country is on a knife’s edge. The plume of smoke—going straight up into the ...

On 4 August 2020, Beirut was torn apart by an explosion so large that shockwaves were felt over 200 kilometres away on the island of Cyrpus. At least 135 people were killed in the blast and 5,000 ...

It has already lost its land route via Syria.The Islamic Republic is playing nice for now – on the surface. “Araghchi congratulated Rajji on his election as the new foreign minister of Lebanon and ...

Hady Sy is showing a sculpture titled “Beirut,” made with the numbers 6:09, the time of the blast, with a more hopeful interpretation. “When I looked at my watch after the blast and someone ...