Beirut had enjoyed a moment of relative quiet earlier in the week, during a visit to the city on Tuesday and Wednesday by Amos Hochstein, a Biden administration envoy. Hochstein, who is trying to secure a cease-fire between Israel and the Lebanese militant ...

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 66 people were wounded in the strikes, which were the fourth in central Beirut in less than a week.

BEIRUT - A massive Israeli airstrike that hit a residential building in a central district of Beirut early Saturday killed at least 20 people, thundered across the city and underlined fears in Lebanon that the war is escalating, days after diplomatic talks aimed at a cease-fire stirred hope of the conflict’s end.