In 1984, the last U.S. Marines in the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut.
Investment and tourism from the Gulf have restored some confidence in battered Lebanon, pushing Beirut's long-stagnant stock index up by 38% since December.
She even planned two weddings for herself and her husband, in Sea Island, GA and Beirut, Lebanon.
About 1, 500 media executives from 60 nations will attend the World Editors Forum this June in Beirut, Lebanon.
Bassoul grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, where standing still could get you killed.
Early on the morning of March 16th, 1984, William Buckley left for work at the American embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Union of Arab Banks, headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, was setup in 1974 to foster cooperation between Islamic banks and support those in the region.
The United Nations announced Monday that Valerie Amos, its under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will visit Damascus and Beirut, Lebanon, starting Tuesday.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh contributed to this report from Beirut, Lebanon.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Hezbollah militants Thursday began removing street blockades -- one day after the reversal of two Lebanese Cabinet decisions made during the recent factional violence.
In October, Wissam Al-Hassan, the Lebanese chief of the Internal Security Forces Information Branch in charge of Samaha's case, was assassinated in a car bombing that rocked central Beirut, Lebanon.
We know this is a firm requirement established as a result of one of the first "Red Cell" exercises we conducted after the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983.
During his work with the SQA, Mr Cooke travelled to Beirut, Lebanon, Djakarta, Indonesia, Cairo, Egypt and was on a business trip to Saudi Arabia when unrest broke out in Bahrain, where he said he was required to help with the evacuation of employees.
In 1985, President Regan expanded the program, increasing the number of air marshals, in response to a series of domestic and international hijackings, including TWA Flight 847, in which a U.S. Navy Diver was killed and his body dumped on the tarmac in Beirut, Lebanon.
He's speaking with us from just outside Beirut, in Lebanon, where he and his family are stranded at the old family compound.
Even though many in Lebanon support that demand, the Beirut government has proven incapable of reaching a consensus on the issue.
However, with opinions and allegiances as divided as ever, and with guns still out in the streets of Beirut, real peace in Lebanon is still very difficult to imagine.
Bustros is set to return to Lebanon soon to serve as the archbishop of Beirut.
The Saudi Embassy in Beirut told its nationals to leave Lebanon immediately after the "public threats" against them.
They then filled the new building with engravings and portraits of Ottoman sultans, French cavalry officers and Druze tribesmen, as well as faded photos of old Beirut and the villages of Mount Lebanon.
Baalbeck, in the Bekaa Valley, is the agricultural heart of Lebanon, and a road-trip there from Beirut leads past the town of Chtaura, where farms produce some of the Middle East's most sought-after dairy products.
Lebanon's north, far more religiously conservative than Beirut, is a stronghold for the Sunnis.
WSJ: As Syrian Crisis Intensifies, Fight Bleeds Into Lebanon
After five years in book publishing in London in the early 70s, Jim drove to Beirut after Christmas 1974, thinking along the way that Lebanon, being the sophisticated Switzerland of the Middle East, would provide a secure and stable base from which to cover the upheavals of a notoriously turbulent region.
As NPR's Deborah Amos reports from Beirut, the standoff has renewed focus on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
It began in Beirut but quickly spread to nearby mountain villages in the Mount Lebanon area and to Tripoli.
CNN: Lebanon officials reverse decisions that set off violence
Mr Hirst, the dean of foreign correspondents in Beirut after five decades in residence, begins his tale with Lebanon's creation in the wake of the first world war, as a French gift to the Maronite Christians of the coastal Levant who had long seen Paris and the Vatican as their saviours.
The vehicle brims with hand-painted T-shirts and handbags from designers such as Beirut-based Sarah Beydoun, whose artisans are women in prison in Lebanon.
Once the withdrawal has been confirmed, the 4, 500-member United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) is expected to be strengthened to enable it to help restore Beirut's authority over the area.
Events in Lebanon could spin out of control, even if rival Lebanese groups don't want Syria's war to be exported to Lebanon, said Hilal Khashan, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut.
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