Start your day with intelligence. Get The OODA Daily Pulse.

Beirut bomb targets deputy PM

A powerful explosion — heard miles away — tore through a Christian neighborhood in northern Beirut, killing at least two people and wounding 12 others, including Lebanon’s outgoing deputy prime minister Elias Murr. According to a general with the Lebanese Army, Murr’s injuries were not life-threatening and were suffered when a car bomb detonated as his convoy passed. Full Story