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A source close to Hezbollah tells AFP that the body of top commander Fuad Shukr has been recovered, nearly 24 hours after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on southern Beirut, Lebanon.
2024-07-31

A Syrian man fires several shots at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and is shot by security forces.
2024-06-5

Four people are killed, three are injured, and 17 are missing after a building collapses in Beirut, Lebanon.
2024-02-19

Israel's Iron Dome fails to intercept a Hezbollah-operated military drone from Lebanon that penetrated seventy kilometers into Israeli airspace. The drone flew for forty minutes before returning to Lebanon. Israeli jets fly at very low altitude over Beirut in response to the incident.
2022-02-18

The state-run "National News Agency" says that Lebanon's state prosecution has asked Interpol to detain two Russian citizens, the captain and owner of the MV "Rhosus", a ship that carried thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate to Beirut in 2013.
2020-10-1

The S&P Global Ratings downgrades Lebanon's credit rating for its external debt to "selective default" (SD), following defaults due to the resignation of the government in the aftermath of the August 4 explosion in Beirut and the implementation of a two-week lockdown from August 18 following a surge in infections.
2020-08-21

Gunmen open fire, killing two guards and wounding another for Lebanese Refugee Affairs Minister, Saleh al-Gharib. This attack happened in a mountain village near Beirut, Lebanon.
2019-06-30

A day of mourning is held in Lebanon following two suicide attacks in the capital Beirut which killed at least 43 people.
2015-11-13

Majid al-Majid, the chief of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades militant group that was accused of being responsible for a double suicide bombing in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in November 2013, dies in custody in a military hospital in Beirut.
2014-01-4

Five people are killed and 20 wounded in a car bomb which hit a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
2014-01-2