The cedar was grown from a seed traced to a 1960 gift from Lebanon to Washington, D.C., and could live for a century.

A photographer from the country of Lebanon returned to the Wilson County city to plant a cedar sapling. Last year, Fadi Boukaram made it his mission to visit cities and towns named Lebanon in the ...

Khaled Taleb steps out of his vehicle high on a mountainside in northern Lebanon, and surveys the charred remains of the cedar forest he fought to save. A black carpet of the trees' burned needles ...

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