Lebanon’s government has blamed a large quantity of poorly stored ammonium nitrate for the huge blast that rocked its capital, Beirut, killing scores of people and devastating swathes of the city.

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 ...

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 colossal explosion in Lebanon’s capital this week was apparently caused when more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated. The stockpile had been left for years at the city's port in a ...

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 ...

(PARIS and LONDON) — An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the face of a city almost instantly. The exact cause of the Beirut blast is ...

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 ...