BEIRUT (AP) — A judge ordered a gunman who took up to 10 hostages at a Beirut bank to force the release of his trapped savings to stay behind bars Friday, apparently a bid to prevent copycats as ...

Since Beirut’s overextended Intra Bank collapsed a year ago, the precarious prosperity of little Lebanon has been flattened by multiple misfortune. Despite a massive infusion of loans from the ...

BEIRUT -- A gunman demanding a Beirut bank let him withdraw his trapped savings to pay his father's medical bills took up to 10 people hostage in a seven-hour standoff Thursday before surrendering in ...

BEIRUTBEIRUT — Angry protesters in Lebanon Thursday smashed windows and set tires on fire outside two of the country’s biggest banks in the capital city, as the value of the local currency hit a new ...

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--Bank of Beirut, one of Lebanon's 10 largest banks, said Tuesday it has launched an investment fund with a targeted capital of 50 billion Lebanese pounds ($33.3 million) to ...

An armed woman walked away with more than $13,000 of her own savings from a bank in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Wednesday, after briefly holding up the branch, according to a local television ...

Beirut was hit by a number of air strikes aimed at banks accused of funding Hezbollah - Shutterstock /Wael Hamzeh Israeli fighter jets destroyed branches of banks in Beirut accused of funding ...