Global Times

Tourists visit Baalbek temple complex in Baalbek, Lebanon

A tourist visits the Baalbek temple complex in Baalbek, Lebanon, July 26, 2023. The Baalbek temple complex, an archaeological site of Imperial Roman architecture, is located in the city of Baalbek, ...
Iowa Public Radio

Israel strikes Lebanon’s ancient city of Baalbek, as tens of thousands of people flee

BEIRUT — As Israel intensified attacks in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek this week, residents with nowhere else to go fled to the ancient Roman temples, hoping the archaeological site’s ...
CNN

Baalbek, Lebanon: Where the Roman ruins outstrip Rome

I approached Baalbek on a hot, dry day out of Beirut, down a broken road where children played, oblivious to passing cars. I pulled up by a small hut on the outskirts of the city, where I’d been told ...
NPR

Baalbek's Sunni Muslims Are Critics of Hezbollah

Israeli warplanes are targeting a town that appears to be controlled by Hezbollah militants. Shiite Muslims in Baalbek oppose the attacks, but Sunni Muslims, citing their own political preferences, ...
Houston Public Media

Israel strikes Lebanon’s ancient city of Baalbek, as tens of thousands of people flee

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, in the Bekaa Valley, on Thursday. (Nidal Solh | AFP via Getty Images) ...