Explore eight sourced Lebanese cases spanning adjudicated attacks, political assassinations, the killing of a UN peacekeeper, unresolved murders and the Beirut port explosion. Court findings remain distinct from accusations, pending indictments and unexecuted in-absentia sentences.
Cases appear here only when reliable records establish a conviction or equivalent adjudicated outcome. In-absentia proceedings and unresolved accountability are disclosed.
Near-simultaneous car bombs struck the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli on August 23, 2013, killing 47 people. Youssef Diab was convicted in 2019; the wider alleged command structure remains incompletely adjudicated.
Open case file →Lebanese president-elect Bachir Gemayel was killed in a bombing at the Kataeb headquarters in Beirut in September 1982. Thirty-five years later, Habib Shartouni and Nabil al-Alam were convicted and sentenced in absentia.
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A bomb attack killed former prime minister Rafik Hariri and 21 other people in Beirut on February 14, 2005. A UN-backed tribunal ultimately convicted three defendants and imposed life sentences in absentia; its judgments did not establish responsibility by political or state leadership.
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An Irish UNIFIL peacekeeper was killed and three colleagues injured when their vehicle came under fire in 2022. Six people were convicted in 2025; the main defendant was sentenced in absentia and remains at large.
Open case file →This section records unresolved Lebanese cases only when the victims, event, investigative history and latest legal status can be supported by reliable sources.
Unsafe ammonium nitrate destroyed part of Beirut and killed more than 200 people. The investigative phase concluded in 2026, but indictment and trials were still awaited.
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Lebanese Phalangist militiamen killed hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. Official findings established responsibility, but no individual criminal conviction was located.
Open case file →Journalist, historian and democracy advocate Samir Kassir was killed by a bomb placed in his car in Beirut in June 2005. No suspect has been detained or charged in the authoritative investigative record reviewed.
Open case file →Publisher, researcher and activist Lokman Slim was found killed in his car in southern Lebanon in February 2021. The investigation was reopened in 2025, but no individual had been arrested or charged in the latest authoritative record reviewed.
Open case file →Crime by Region distinguishes conviction from custody, sentence enforcement and complete historical accountability. Hariri, Gemayel, the Tripoli mosque bombings and the Seán Rooney case have adjudicated cores, while Sabra and Shatila, Kassir and Slim remain unresolved. Trials in absentia, conflicting reports and broader accountability gaps are disclosed.