A fire broke out Tuesday at one of the main power stations in Lebanon’s capital following a loud explosion, according to eyewitnesses and an Anadolu Agency correspondent. Firefighting teams rushed to the location and proceeded to put out the fire at the station in the Qasqas area of...

President Michel Aoun said he hoped a new Lebanese government would be formed within the next couple days, as efforts to agree one were spurred on by a fuel crisis that has brought much of the country to a standstill and sparked warnings of anarchy. The steadily worsening fuel crisis has...

After a devastating fuel tanker explosion in the northern village of Tleil killed 33 people and left nearly 80 wounded, Lebanese hospitals across the country opened their doors to patients. The northern village and the rest of Akkar province is one of the country’s poorest, and...

A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored exploded in northern Lebanon early Sunday, killing 20 people and burning dozens more in the latest tragedy to hit the Mediterranean country in the throes of a devastating economic and political crisis. It was not immediately clear what caused the...