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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese marked the 30th anniversary of the start of their country’s 1975-90 civil war with marches, concerts and other symbolic gestures across a rebuilt capital yesterday ...
Half a century has passed since the outbreak of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War, a vicious, multifaceted conflict characterised by sectarianism, foreign intervention, powerful militias and a state ...
EIN SAADEH, Lebanon – With pen and paper in hand, it took Assaad Chaftari five minutes at his home nestled in a cluster of pine trees in the mountains overlooking Beirut to write a public ...
During the civil war that ended over 30 years ago Abla Barotta survived shelling and clashes, but she now fears a "slow death" from Lebanon's worst economic crisis in decades.
What happened next on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon, plunging it into 15 years of civil war. It would kill about 150,000 people, leave 17,000 missing and lead to foreign ...
When Lebanon's civil war erupted 50 years ago this month, its national museum became a flashpoint of its capital's deadly frontline, with militants barricaded among ancient sarcophagi and sniping ...
Lebanon’s civil war lasted 15 years, leaving some 150,000 dead. But textbooks in Lebanese schools don’t even discuss the subject.
Lebanon has seen it all throughout its existence: civil war, terrorism, invasion, occupation, military intervention and political intimidation. You name it. Yet somehow it has managed to keep ...
Lebanon's civil war fighters working for reconciliation, 50 years on. Beirut (AFP) – Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to ...
April 13, 1975 is officially the date when the Lebanese civil war began. It lasted for 15 years and it officially ended in 1990 after the Taif agreement. More than 150,000 died and hundreds of ...