When the electricity finally failed in my East Beirut neighborhood, I set up shop at a rooftop hotel bar and waited for the next Israeli bombs to fall. Almost immediately, the sky erupted with what ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon – In the tightly packed crowds of Lebanon's biggest-ever protest, young and old threw a party: Children streamed in from schools, men and women snapped souvenir cell phone photos and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s 3 a.m., and I have just left the tiny, noisy bar of Torino for a place around ...

Beirut Pride announced that a party that was scheduled to open the week’s festivities last Sunday was cancelled due to a threat of violence. Lectures, film screenings, and parties were scheduled for ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 8 - Shouting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese poured into central Beirut on Tuesday in a show of strength by the militant Shiite Muslim ...

The massive pro-Syrian demonstration that the Hezbollah militia mounted on the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday underscored just how much all the old slogans and sentiments — anti-Israeli, ...

SUNDAY morning is usually the only break in the hectic Beirut round of politics, commerce and partying. But on May 8th the streets were packed for a rare event: the chance to cast a ballot for an ...

BEIRUT, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The head of the Christian Lebanese Forces party (LF) denied late on Friday his group had planned street violence in Beirut that killed seven people, and said a meeting held ...