CITYSHOTS: Aerial and street views of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut

Record ID: 2273061

  • Title: CITYSHOTS: Aerial and street views of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut
  • Date: 13th November 2025
  • Summary: BEIRUT, LEBANON (NOVEMBER 10, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING ALONG THE SEASIDE CORNICHE IN THE COSTAL DISTRICT IN AIN AL MRAISEH BOATS IN THE SEA AND PERSON PARAGLIDING  BOATS IN THE SEA YOUNG MEN SITTING ON BOARDS IN THE SEA BEIRUT, LEBANON (NOVEMBER 4, 2025) (REUTERS) (MUTE) VARIOUS OF DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWING BOATS IN ZAITUNAY BAY, A STRING OF RESTAURANTS AND CA
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  • Keywords: Beirut Beirut port Lebanon cityshots downtown Beirut drone landscape
  • Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • City: BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
  • Reuters ID: LVA003109311112025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Lebanon's capital Beirut is an ancient port city that lies roughly in the middle of the country's 225-kilometre (139.8-mile) coastline. The city itself is just under 20 square kilometres (7.72 square miles), but its suburbs have mushroomed in recent decades to encompass roughly 2.5 million residents of the metropolitan Beirut area.
    Beirut was battered during Lebanon's 15-year civil war that ended in 1990 and large swathes of it were rebuilt. But in the last half-decade, it has endured cycles of internal political turmoil, a financial crisis that impoverished most Lebanese, the cataclysmic Beirut port blast of 2020, and last year’s war with Israel that left much of the city’s southern suburbs destroyed.
    Pope Leo XIV is expected to visit Lebanon, including Beirut, later this month, as part of his first trip outside Italy as pontiff.
    His visit will be the first papal trip to Lebanon since 2012, when Pope Benedict XVI visited the country. The visit comes at a time of political tension over Israel's continued airstrikes on the country and the refusal of Iran-backed group Hezbollah to disarm.
    Lebanon is making moves to confiscate Hezbollah's weapons in the country's south before moving on to the rest of the country, but the group continues to reject disarming in full. 
    (Production: Emilie Madi, Ahmad Al Kerdi, Maya Gebeily)
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