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 ...

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 ...

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 is promoting the revival of the country’s defunct railway system that could link to neighbouring Syria and Iraq and become part of China’s proposed Belt and Road Initiative in the region.

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 ...

Roads including the Khaldeh highway, south of Beirut, Hazmieh road, southeast of the capital, and Dora to the north were shut down for periods starting around 7 a.m., causing heavy congestion.