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On 19 October 2012, a car bomb killed eight people in the Beirut's neighborhood of Achrafiyeh, including Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan, chief of the Intelligence Bureau of the Internal Security Forces. In addition, 78 others were wounded in the bombing. [174] It was the largest attack in the capital since 2008. [175]
[citation needed] The American University of Beirut was founded in 1866, followed by the French St. Joseph's University in 1875. [citation needed] An intellectual guild that was formed at the same time gave new life to Arabic literature, which had stagnated under the Ottoman Empire.
Saint Joseph University founded. Thamarāt al Funūn newspaper begins publication. [3] 1877 – Lisan al-Hal newspaper begins publication. [3] 1883 – Hôtel-Dieu de France founded. 1888 – Beirut was made capital of a vilayet (governorate) in Syria,[37] including the sanjaks (prefectures) Latakia, Tripoli, Beirut, Acre and Bekaa. 1894
At least thirty people were killed, and 120 wounded, including former prime minister Shafik Wazzan, who was riding in a bulletproof car. It was the deadliest car bombing in Lebanon since June 18, 1985, when an explosion in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli killed sixty people and wounded 110.
People inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, that Israeli officials say killed senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil, wanted by the U.S. for 1983 ...
Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas official and founding member of the organisation’s military wing, has been killed in an explosion in a Beirut suburb that raises fresh fears the Israel-Gaza conflict ...
At the same time, 20:00, a third report came in from liaison officer G. of the Phalangists who in the presence of numerous Israeli officers, including general Yaron, in the dining room, stated that within 2 hours the Phalangists had killed 300 people, including civilians. He returned sometime later and changed the number from 300 to 120. [54]
Aqil had a $7 million bounty on his head from the United States for his suspected involvement in the 1983 strike on the US Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63 people, as well as the bombing of the ...