Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse - has been blamed for the explosion that ripped through the port ...

Forty years ago I was evacuated from Beirut as Lebanon descended into one of the most brutal conflicts of the era. Then, as now, the Islamist militia Hezbollah was at the centre of the chaos.

A unit of the same hit-team blew up a building in another Beirut neighborhood to kill ... while the ABC News bureau chief, Peter Jennings, was asleep in his apartment upstairs.

Peter Jennings was known to most Americans as the articulate and soothing face of the evening news; a reliable reporter millions turned to for coverage of triumphs and crises for more than 40 years.

Israeli jets struck the southern suburbs of Beirut early Wednesday for the first time in six days, Lebanese state media reported. The casualty count was not yet clear. The attack comes just one ...

The Lebanese government has resigned amid growing public anger following a devastating explosion in Beirut on 4 August that killed at least 200 people and injured around 5,000 others. Here is what ...

Wisps of gray smoke were still rising from the depths of smoldering craters in Beirut’s densely populated southern suburbs. Days earlier, Israeli air strikes had obliterated six adjacent ...

Israel has carried out at least a dozen air strikes on Beirut on Saturday in the heaviest attack the Lebanese capital witnessed in more than a week. Huge plumes of smoke were seen rising over the ...

The rubble, covering much of a city block on the edges of Beirut, was still smoldering when we arrived. An Israeli airstrike had hit the area days earlier. Symbols of defiance could be seen in the ...

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Peter Jennings, the journalist and ABC anchorman whose career spanned more than four decades, died of lung cancer at his home in New York late Sunday. He was 67. ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings ...

Former deputy secretary for strategy in the Defence Department Former executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Peter Jennings has held senior roles in the Australian Public ...