A powerful explosion lit up the night sky along Beirut's airport highway late Wednesday into early Thursday, as Israeli airstrikes hit the busy road amid intensifying clashes between Israel and Hezbollah.

The MV Rhosus was allowed to sail into Beirut’s port carrying 2,750 tons of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate, even after an inspection by the Lebanese navy, documents show. Lebanon's Armed Forces failed to include the inspection in a report submitted to the government after the blast.

A loud explosion is heard by an AFP journalist in the Lebanese capital Beirut shortly after midnight on Wednesday, as Israel and Hezbollah trade strikes and rocket fire.

On a warm, clear August day in Beirut, Lebanon, five years ago, the lives of countless residents of the Middle Eastern coastal metropolis — including the city’s numerous Christians — changed forever. On that day in 2020, a neglected store of several ...

Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wrapped up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Tuesday. He also met with relatives of some of the 218 victims of the blast on Aug. 4, 2020. The explosion ...

The death toll from a powerful explosion in Beirut Tuesday has reached 100 and is still climbing. At least 4,000 others were injured. While no one knows yet exactly how many people died in the blast, the destruction was so extensive that the shockwave was ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- After video of a monstrous explosion in Beirut began spreading across the globe, one Chicago resident worried about his family. "I was just trying to keep calling everyone and keep texting everyone." Rami Ghannam said. Most of his family ...

Discover the facts behind a viral video wrongly linked to a Dubai missile strike. The footage comes from the 2020 Beirut explosion — here's how the claim misled millions.