US Should Support Probe into 2020 Beirut Blast

Click to expand Image A soldier stands at the devastated site of the explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon,  August 6, 2020. © 2020 Thibault Camus/Pool via AP Images A group of US lawmakers have called on the Biden administration to support a United Nations-led investigation into the catastrophic blast at Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020. The chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee and 24 other members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken expressing concern about the worsening economic and political crises in Lebanon and calling on the US to “lead…

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