plunging it into 15 years of civil war that would kill about 150,000 people, leave 17,000 missing and lead to foreign intervention. Beirut became synonymous with snipers, kidnappings and car bombs.

When Lebanon's civil war erupted 50 years ago this month, its national museum became a flashpoint of its capital's deadly ...

Anxiety and indifference in Beirut as locals brace for war Story by Victoria-craw • 6mo Three minutes before midnight, I felt the sunlounger begin to tremble. For the past few nights, ...

Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to bear the same ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

plunging it into 15 years of civil war. It would kill about 150,000 people, leave 17,000 missing and lead to foreign intervention. Beirut became synonymous with snipers, kidnappings and car bombs.