A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.

Assassination of Wissam al-Hassan

2012 car bomb attack in Beirut, Lebanon

On 19 October 2012, Wissam al-Hassan, a brigadier general of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the head of its intelligence-oriented information branch, died along with several others killed by a car bomb in the Achrafieh district of Beirut. The killing of a senior…