Photo Gallery: Lebanon's Ruins Survive Recent Bombings
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The recent conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces&#151;now halted by a tentative cease-fire&#151;appears to have left historic sites in the war-torn country unscathed.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 12 -- A remote-controlled car bomb ripped through a busy street overlooking Beirut on Wednesday, killing a top general and his bodyguard and heightening the sense of instability in a country that has gone without a president for nearly three weeks.
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With the Lebanese government mired in political crisis, many of the countryâs institutions are crumbling but the army, battling Islamic militants, is a source of unity.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops resumed their shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp on Tuesday, trying to force the surrender of al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched amid thousands of civilians.
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By Henry Meyer  BEIRUT, Lebanon  --  Shovel-wielding volunteers sifted through oil-stained sand on a beach where tourists once swam, now emptied by a massive spill caused by Israeli bombardment. Two months later, only 3 percent of the oil has been recovered.
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Eleven people were killed and about 20 wounded in two bomb blasts that wrecked minibuses near the Christian mountain town of Bikfaya north of Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops assaulted positions of al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Friday with some of the heaviest shelling in 13 days of fighting there.
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Cleanup is set to begin within days at the first of three ancient World Heritage sites damaged in the summer's Hezbollah-Israel war &#151; a crumbling old castle rising from the Mediterranean whose foundation stones are now coated with oil sludge.
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BEIRUT - A powerful car bomb in a Christian neighborhood just east of Beirut killed a Christian lawmaker from the governing coalition and six others yesterday. It was the latest in a deadly string of bombings that have rocked Lebanon's teetering political order as the country prepares to select a new president.
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Lebanon had not even finished burying the dead from 34 days of war when the country's deep sectarian and political divisions split open again. That has shattered the semblance of unity that held, just barely, through the Israeli attacks against Hezbollah.
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EIN ALAQ, Lebanon -- Bomb blasts killed three people on commuter buses yesterday, and lawmakers blamed Syria, stirring fears of clashes between Hezbollah and government supporters at a massive rally planned to mark the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister.
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BINT JBEIL, Lebanon  - Like a small black   football, it lies in the dirt not far from Haitham Daaboul's   front door in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil.
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Events in Beirut expose the divisions of a small state on the faultlines of the Middle East
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Now that the shooting has stopped, Hizballah is moving fast to help rebuild southern Lebanon
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Bombs exploded on two buses in a Christian area of Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding about 20, a day before the second anniversary of ex-premier Rafik al-Hariri's assassination.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops resumed their shelling on Tuesday of a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon where al Qaeda-inspired militants remained entrenched along with thousands of civilians.
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Two presidents were killed by bombs just before or after their inaugurations. One prime minister was blown up in a helicopter; another was killed four months after leaving office in a suicide truck bombing. At least 35 Lebanese politicians, clerics and journalists have been struck down by assassins in Lebanon's 63 years of independence.