Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Earthquake in Iran, 1962: Amid the Ruins
Few people on Earth are as familiar with earthquakes as the citizens of Iran. Crisscrossed by a number of major fault lines and almost perpetually subject to...
Rare Photos From the Set of ‘Porgy and Bess’
Not too many musical classics have experienced the sort of polar-opposite reactions from audiences and critics that Porgy and Bess has elicited ever since it...
LIFE With Barbarella: Photos From the Set of a Camp Classic
The list of movies that were dismissed by critics — or that simply bombed at the box office — when first released, only to enjoy a renaissance and renewed...
Taylor and Clift: Photos From the Set of ‘A Place in the Sun’
On Montgomery Clift's birthday, LIFE.com presents photographs — none of which ran in LIFE magazine — of Clift and his soul mate, Elizabeth Taylor, on the set of...
Protests in Lebanon
Demonstrators take to the streets to oppose the appointment of Hizballah-backed Najib Mikati as Prime Minister
Ready, Set, Shop! Scenes from Black Friday
People across the country line up and push their way in as the traditional post-Thanksgiving shopping mania gets underway
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn1918 - 2008
The Nobel Prize-winning author who exposed the horrors of the Soviet gulags and who became the conscience of the Russian nation has died in Moscow at age 89.
Lebanon in Crisis
A Photo Time Line
Inside Hizballah
The radical movement has deep roots in Lebanon's Shi'ite communities
The Ground Attack
Eight Thousand Israeli troops invade and Lebanon retaliates with its deepest rocket strikes to date
Rare Winter Storm Dumps Snow and Rain on Middle East
The biggest January storm to hit the Mideast in 30 years has led to havoc, as many countries in the usually arid region were unprepared for torrential downpours...
Chaos and Killing in Syria: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War
Nearly two years ago, Arab Spring–inspired protests kicked off in the impoverished Syrian agricultural town of Dara‘a. The mini-uprising, defined by its peaceful...
