In 2023, then-chief prosecutor Ghassan Oweidat ordered the release of 17 detainees, including port and customs officials, who had been held in pre-trial detention since the explosion. Bitar and legal ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese judge leading an investigation into the huge 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two port employees on Friday, resuming his probe after years of obstruction ...

On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port warehouse, killing at least 218 people, injuring more than 6,000 and devastating large swaths of the capital.

The outgoing deputy force commander of the UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) in Lebanon was injured on Friday after a violent attack.

As part of the ongoing investigation into the August 4, 2020, Beirut Port explosion, Judge Tarek Bitar is questioning ...

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Some who left the country in successive waves of emigration have felt drawn back to aid recovery efforts after the bloody and ...

NNA - Lebanon’s newly appointed Minister of Justice, Adel Nassar, has reaffirmed his commitment to facilitating the investigation into the Beirut Port explosion, promising to provide all nece ...