The sun is beating down on the rocky shore of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, and architect Mona Hallak is taking her son and his friends to see their heritage. "Who knows how to swim?" asks Hallak, an ...
BEIRUT — A winter storm in Lebanon has resurfaced a long-standing national problem, in the form of a swirling sea of garbage. Piles of trash began washing up Monday on the beaches of Zouk Mosbeh, a ...
Volunteers help endangered baby turtles in southern Lebanon in the midst of low-level war on the country's border with Israel. Endangered sea turtles are hatching on the coast of Lebanon and making ...
People spend the day on the beach in the port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon despite fears of war with Israel amid near-daily clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces — ANWAR AMRO After the roar ...
With long rakes, men in black raincoats scrape up scraps of plastic bags, water bottles and pieces of wood from the stony beach. Mostly Syrians, they work for a contractor hastily hired by Lebanese ...
In a bid to revive Lebanon's tourism sector, the Tourism Ministry recently hosted a retro-themed event at Beirut’s St. Georges Hotel. Fireworks illuminated the night sky above the Mediterranean Sea, ...
Israel’s equivalent of the elite Navy SEALs stormed a beach in Lebanon over the weekend, snatched a nearby senior Hezbollah operative and then raced off with him in a speedboat, officials say. The ...
ZOUQ MOSBEH, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon's festering trash crisis came crashing ashore this week, after residents woke up to find a powerful winter storm had laid a mantle of waste at a beach just a ...
Endangered sea turtles are hatching on the coast of Lebanon and making their way to the Mediterranean. The turtles have essentially remained unchanged for a hundred million years. Their habitat has ...