As black smoke billowed into the sky, Shiva Karout stepped out of his gym with his colleagues and customers to watch. His gym, Barbell House, sits just across the coastal highway from Beirut’s port where …
Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 78 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a toll that officials expected to rise. …
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A linguist working for the U.S. military kept a list of secret informants hidden under a mattress in her residence in Iraq, the Justice Department said Wednesday, and shared the names with a romantic interest: a Lebanese …
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