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www .beirut .gov .lb. Beirut ( / beɪˈruːt / bay-ROOT; [ 3 ] Arabic: بيروت, romanized :Bayrūt ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014 [update], Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, [ 4 ] which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world.
The Multinational Force in Lebanon ( MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in August 1982 following a 1981 U.S. -brokered ceasefire between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel [ 3] to end their involvement in the conflict between Lebanon's pro-government and pro- Syrian factions.
Average urban water and sanitation tariff (US$/m 3) US$159 per year flat fee, corresponding to US$0.97/m3 (Beirut in 2008) Share of household metering. 16% in Beirut-Mount Lebanon (2010); zero in some other areas. Annual investment in WSS. US$129m (late 90s and early 2000s) Share of self-financing by utilities. low.
Displaced. ≈300,000. On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...
The US has promised to supply Lebanon with M2A2 ODS and M109A5. In addition, the US supplied Lebanon with 12 RQ-11 Raven small hand-launched UAVs, 12 M-109A3 and 183 additional M198 Howitzers from 2008 to 2016 making the total to 219, [1] and promised to deliver all water patrol boats and more utility, and attack helicopters.
Green Line (Lebanon) Coordinates: 33.8786°N 35.5151°E. A CIA map of neighborhoods in Beirut in 1986, which also shows the Green Line. Green Line, Beirut, 1982. The Green Line ( Arabic: الخط الأخضر) was a line of demarcation in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. It separated the mainly Muslim factions ...
Israel carried out heavy airstrikes in south Lebanon and Hezbollah said it had launched explosive drones and rockets at Israeli targets on Wednesday as Israel's defence minister warned of a "hot ...
Acting. Served as Prime Minister of Lebanon for the same period. 5 Petro Trad بيترو طراد (1876–1947) 22 July 1943 21 September 1943 61 days Independent: Trad was elected deputy from Beirut in 1925 serving in the Lebanese Parliament for much of the 1920s and 1930s, either elected or appointed by the French authorities. He was a member ...