BEIRUT -- When Sara first arrived at her rescuers' home, she was sick, tired and covered in ringworm, with signs of abuse all over her little furry body. After spending two months in a small Beirut ...

In Lebanon, a historic university offers not just an education in the heart of Beirut, but an unusual sanctuary for cats ...

Maggie Shaarawi, vice president of Animals Lebanon, tries to calm Sara the lion cub in Beirut before the animal is transferred out of the country, on Thursday. (Ali Khara for NPR) BEIRUT — It's hours ...

BEIRUT — It's hours before dawn and the marina in Beirut's Dbayeh district is deserted apart from a small group of men lifting a metal cage labeled "live lion" onto a yacht. The passenger is a cub ...

The group Animals Lebanon says it rescued Sara the lion cub from abuse by a Lebanese social media influencer, kept it safe in Beirut and sent it... Animal rescuers evacuate a lion cub from war-torn ...