Workers were repairing a facility in Beirut, Lebanon's port on the afternoon of Aug. 4, hours before a massive explosion there rocked the area, destroying buildings and killing at least 180 people. A ...

BEIRUT — A "colossal" explosion that rocked the port area of Lebanon's capital Tuesday, killing dozens of people and injuring thousands more, happened at a warehouse where tons of ammonium nitrate ...

Beirut was declared a ‘disaster city’ by authorities on Wednesday, in the wake of a huge explosion in the port of the Lebanese capital that left at least 135 people dead and 5000 injured. The number ...

The Beirut explosion that killed at least 135 people and injured thousands appears to have been sparked by a warehouse fire, according to a new report A fire at one port warehouse in the Lebanese ...

Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he is wrapping up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated President Trump’s pledge that the US stands ready to help Lebanon after a major warehouse blast left at least 100 dead and 300,000 homeless. In a statement ...

John Ismay was a bomb disposal officer in the U.S. Navy before he became a reporter for The New York Times Magazine’s At War section. Here is the information he has gathered about the explosion in ...

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article reported the source of the explosion was a blaze at a firecracker factory. CNN later reported there were conflicting accounts from authorities and ...