President Joseph Aoun on Friday inspected the Port of Beirut and met with acting Customs chief Raymond Khoury, the Presidency said. Aoun visited the key facility to examine “the flow of work at the ...

From her kitchen window in Karantina, the neglected district that runs down to Beirut’s port, Halabi saw what appeared to be fireworks popping as a bonfire rose from nearby. Then the air started ...

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.

Initial investigations into the Beirut ... port without safety measures. “It is negligence,” the official source said, adding that the issue on storing the material safely had come before ...

The blast, which killed more than 100 people and injured thousands more, occurred at a warehouse in Beirut's port area ... I never saw something like this before," baker Hekmat Kaai said.

Lebanon’s main grain silo at Beirut port was destroyed in a blast ... The economy was already in meltdown before the blast, slowing grain imports as the nation struggled to find hard currency ...