But those targets are incredibly close to the Baalbek temples and Roman ruins in Tyre, a major port of the Phoenician Empire around 2,500 years ago. According to legend, Tyre is the place where ...

Near the still-smoking ruins of a building ... their cables are severed," said the 60-year-old. "Tyre and Lebanon don't deserve what happened... but God will compensate us, and Tyre will be ...

The cathedral had been built by crusaders in the twelfth century, after the capture of Tyre. It stood on the foundations of a previous Byzantine church, and its constructors had reused columns taken ...