John Ismay was a bomb disposal officer in the U.S. Navy before he became a reporter for The New York Times Magazine’s At War section. Here is the information he has gathered about the explosion in ...

The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and injured thousands more. The country’s prime minister Hassan Diab said the ...

Officials in Lebanon believe that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at a port warehouse in Beirut were the cause of the devastating explosions Tuesday that has killed more than 130 people and ...

Gabriel da Silva, senior lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, on what triggered the explosion in the Lebanese capital. The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday ...