Families still grieve in a Lebanon engulfed in crises—and direct their rage toward the country’s entrenched ruling class.

Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of Lebanon’s dysfunction and official impunity as he offered words of consolation to Lebanon’s ...

A suicide bomber apparently blew himself up in a Beirut hotel on Wednesday as Lebanese security officials raided the hotel in search of terrorists believed to be tied to the Islamic State of Syrian ...

Israel said it targeted a Hezbollah commander in a rare strike Tuesday on Beirut that killed at least one woman and wounded dozens of people in escalating hostilities with the Lebanese militant group.

People Leo XIV concluded his historic trip to the Middle East with a mass attended by 150,000 worshippers on the Beirut waterfront where five years ago, a massive chemical explosion killed more than ...

Pope Leo XIV holds a moment of prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.) Listen BEIRUT — Pope Leo XIV prayed ...

A waterfront Mass in the Lebanese capital capped the pope’s three-day visit to the Middle Eastern nation with the largest proportion of Christians. A waterfront Mass in the Lebanese capital capped the ...