It is August 4th once more, marking five years since the people of Beirut awoke to the usual chaos of one of West Asia’s smallest yet busiest cities—only to have their lives violently and irreversibly shattered. A day of thunderous explosions, blinding smoke, and glass shards slicing through the air ...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun vowed Monday to apply justice as he marked the 5th anniversary of the Beirut port explosion. In a statement shared by the Lebanese presidency on X, Aoun described the Aug. 4, 2020 blast – one of the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosions – as “a major ...
