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Nine people are killed and two more injured during an explosion caused by a gas leak at a restaurant in Beirut, Lebanon.
2024-04-30

Four people and Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of Hamas' political bureau with two other senior Hamas military officials killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
2024-01-2

Six people are killed and 32 more are injured during a shooting at a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, against the judge investigating the 2020 port explosion. Hezbollah and Amal accused the attackers of being members of the Christian Lebanese Forces. Clashes occurred for hours afterwards between the militias involving snipers, pistols, Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades even after the army was deployed.
2021-10-14

The Philippines ambassador to Lebanon, Bernardita Catalla, dies from COVID-19 in Beirut, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.
2020-04-2

The United States Supreme Court rules that almost $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be turned over to American families of people killed in attacks blamed on Iran, including the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.
2016-04-20

The Saudi-owned news channel Al Arabiya shuts its offices in Beirut, Lebanon and dismisses 27 employees in a sudden move reflecting tensions between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran. Saudi Arabia interpreted Lebanon's lack of public solidarity as a sign that it had become beholden to Hezbollah.
2016-04-2

A bomb detonates at a Hezbollah building in Beirut, Lebanon killing four people and wounding 35.
2014-01-21

A car bomb targeting the office of the Shia militant group Hezbollah located in the Lebanese capital Beirut injures 53 people.
2013-07-9

A car bomb explodes at Sassine Square in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, killing at least eight people and wounding up to 78 others.
2012-10-19

Two people are killed in ongoing clashes in the Lebanese capital Beirut between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
2012-05-21