Decades on, war-scarred Beirut buildings remain

Nearly 30 years after civil war guns fell silent, dozens of bullet-scarred, shell-pocked buildings are still standing _ testimony to a brutal conflict that raged for 15 years and took the lives of 150,000 people.

In this Nov. 12, 2018, photo, graffiti by Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada depicting a boy is painted on a bullet riddled building on the former frontline of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo | AP) 

In this Nov. 28, 2015, photo, Syrian refugee children stand on the stairs of their apartment in a building damaged during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war on a former Beirut frontline, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)

In this Nov. 17, 2018, photo, Shiyah, a Muslim Shiite neighborhood from a destroyed apartment in the southern Beirut Christian district of Ain el-Rummaneh, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)

In this Nov. 12, 2018, photo, children stand on the balcony of their apartment building damaged during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war on a former Beirut frontline, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)

In this Nov. 12, 2018, photo, graffiti is painted on a bullet riddled building on the former frontline of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)

In this Nov. 17, 2018, photo, Shiyah, a Muslim Shiite neighborhood is seen from a destroyed apartment in the southern Beirut Christian district of Ain el-Rummaneh, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)

In this Jan. 28, 2016, photo, a visitor checks the mosaic of the Good Shepherd that was badly damaged in the lower left corner by a sniper during the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war at the Lebanese National Museum in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)

In this Dec. 2, 2018, photo, cars park in front of a building that is still riddled with bullets and shells on the former frontline of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)

In this Nov. 17, 2018, photo, an inhabited building that is still riddled with bullets and shells left over from the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war on a former Beirut frontline between Shiyah, a Muslim Shiite district and Christian district of Ain el-Rummaneh, in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)

In this Nov. 27, 2018, photo, a man passes in front of Beit Beirut, the nearly 100 year-old house that served as a sniper position during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, on a former Beirut frontline, Lebanon. (Photo | AP)