It was my best friend’s 21st birthday and we booked a five-day break in Cyprus. We wanted to get as glam as we could in advance, so we went clothes shopping and got our hair done, and I decided to get ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dr. Elias Warrak, an ophthalmologist who has treated blast victims in and around Beirut following a series of deadly explosions of handheld devices across Lebanon. We ...

A man was critically injured and might be facing criminal charges after a mishap while handling commercial-grade fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend. The incident took place on Sunday night in ...

We begin with news from Lebanon. Israel's military says it has launched what it's labeling a targeted attack near Beirut. According to a news agency, an explosion struck an area in the southern ...