"[2] In 1875, during the late Ottoman era, Victor Guérin described it: "The village stands upon a hill, on the south of which is a deep way, through which flows a spring called 'Ain Nakurah, which waters plantations of fig-trees and olives mixed with palms.

[4] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A village, built of stone, containing about 250 Moslems, situated on low hills by sea-coast.

Some of the buildings marked the end of the Lebanese section of the Beirut-Haifa railway which had been closed since Jewish forces blew up the tunnel into Palestine in 1948.

[7] In the autumn of 1986 Lahad’s South Lebanon Army constructed a small port in An-Naqoura from which a ferry connected to Jounieh, north of Beirut.

[10] During the 2024 Israel-Hezbollah conflict, Lebanese Health Ministry officials reported two deaths from an Israeli airstrike on a car in An-Naqoura.

UN peacekeepers accused Israel of a "deliberate and direct" attack on their positions in Lebanon, following multiple incursions, including one incident in Ras an-Naqoura where Israeli military vehicles reportedly damaged a fence and concrete structure.