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 ...
BEIRUT (AP) — It was an ordinary day in Beirut. In one part of Lebanon's capital, a church was inaugurated, with the leader of the Christian Phalange party there. In another, Palestinian factions held ...
Former foes Nassim Assad and Georges Mazraani revisit Beirut's Ain al-Remmaneh district - Copyright AFP/File JULIEN DE ROSA Former foes Nassim Assad and Georges ...
Lebanon’s civil war was one of the most complex conflicts in modern Middle Eastern history. Political rivalries, sectarian ...
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The Lebanese When They Self-Reflect and When They Don’t

Every now and then, a public figure gets up to reconsider his previous positions on the Lebanese Civil War that erupted in 1975 and did not end until 1989. In saying that his generation had burdened ...
And while the civil war ended in 1990, Lebanon has never recovered its former glory, remaining until 2005 under Syrian control, and with part of the country under Israeli occupation for two decades.
Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to bear the same message, half a century after the devastating conflict erupted: never again. The ...