Bars, beaches and bravery – musician Yasmine Hamdan’s essential Beirut

Nearby is Chico Records, a historic store founded in the ’60s by the record producer Khatchik Mardirian, who worked with Ziad Rahbani, the artist son of Lebanese diva Fairuz. Khatchik’s son Diran now ...
Reuters

As Israeli jets hit Beirut, people flee to sleep on the beach

BEIRUT, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The repeated blasts in Beirut's southern suburbs where Israel has been carrying out airstrikes this week have driven Zeina Nazha and her young daughter to camp on a city ...
Casper Star-Tribune

U.S. Marines land in Beirut for first time in decades; evacuation heats up

BEIRUT, Lebanon - U.S. Marines ferried 1,200 Americans from a Beirut beach to the USS Nashville on Thursday - the first Marine operation in Lebanon in more than two decades. A chartered cruise ship ...