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 ...
Lebanon has been mired in conflicts and crises for decades, the worst of which was the 15 year civil war that erupted in 1975 and which divided the country into warring sectarian fiefdoms.
The term “Political Maronitism” entered Lebanon’s political lexicon on the eve of the country’s civil war (1975–1990). Its introduction was due to the leadership of the Druze Jumblatt family, which ...
Since 1975, Lebanon has endured the equivalent of about 30 years of civil war, deadly border conflicts and foreign occupation ...
As Israeli airstrikes have displaced nearly half a million people in Lebanon, a Vancouver artist who escaped the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 says her personal history of loss mirrors the current ...
What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. BEIRUT — It was an ordinary day in Beirut. In one part of Lebanon's capital, a church was inaugurated, with the leader of the ...