It was permanently reopened in 2016, focusing on political reporting and aid, particularly in response to the Syrian civil war and its spillover in Lebanon.

[3] In March 1960, an agreement was reached between the Swedish and Lebanese governments on the mutual elevation of the respective countries' legations to embassies.

[4] In early 1967, a permanent representation was established in Saudi Arabia's commercial center of Jeddah under the direction of an acting chargé d'affaires.

[5] On 16 April 1975, three days after the start of the Lebanese Civil War, a bomb exploded outside the Swedish embassy in Beirut, shattering all the windows in the building.

As the fighting drew closer to the residential area for foreigners, on 27 October, the Swedish, American, and British embassies urged all who could to evacuate the city.

[9] For over a week, neither Ambassador von Dardel nor anyone else had been able to reach the Swedish embassy, which was then located on the seventh floor of an office building on Rue Clemenceau.

[10] Von Dardel subsequently attempted to manage the work from his residence in the hills 7-8 km southeast of the combat zone.

Secretary Håkan Damm and Foreign Ministry trainee Lennart Båge stayed at the Holiday Home Hotel in another part of the city.

[8] On 5 November 1975, it was planned for Håkan Damm and Lennart Båge to return to Sweden, while Ambassador von Dardel and his wife remained in Beirut.

[14] Ambassador von Dardel left Beirut on 14 December 1975 on the last SAS flight after the fighting between Christians and Muslims had worsened.

[15] In September 1978, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Leif Leifland and Deputy Director General Jan af Sillén [sv] traveled to Beirut to assess the political situation in Lebanon and the working conditions at the Swedish embassy.

Ambassador Sten Strömholm and secretary Marie-Elise Gunterberg followed the fighting in Beirut from the eastern districts.

On 10 June, Strömholm telex messaged the Ministry for Foreign Affairs that smoke columns from bomb explosions were rising over western Beirut.

Posters at the embassy informed visitors about the rules for obtaining residence permits in Sweden, including the requirement of having close family ties.

[24] A couple of weeks later, it was reported that the embassy was trying in various ways to curb the influx of Lebanese who were already en route to Sweden or planning to travel there.

The Swedish embassy advertised in the largest newspapers in Beirut, emphasizing that immigration to Sweden was highly restricted and that there were very strict rules for obtaining asylum.

At the embassy, besides chargé d'affaires Lars Bjarme, there was a secretary and a representative from the National Swedish Immigration and Naturalization Board in Norrköping, who assisted with visa matters.

The call did not include any demands from Sweden or an explanation for why the Swedish missions would be targeted, only that actions would be carried out after 1 June.

At that time, the Swedish embassy was located in the Muslim-dominated area of western Beirut, where intense fighting had recently been ongoing.

[30] On 5 February 1988, during the Lebanon hostage crisis, two Scandinavians working for UNRWA, the Swede Jan Stening and the Norwegian William Jørgensen, were kidnapped.

The kitchen in the residence had been badly damaged by grenades, and the copying room in the chancery was filled with bullet holes.

[36] In August 1999, the Swedish government appointed Sweden's former UN Ambassador, 83-year-old Sverker Åström, as chargé d'affaires in Lebanon.

He was to lead the Swedish embassy in Beirut during the autumn of 1999, while awaiting the new ambassador, who could not assume the position until January 2000 due to family reasons.

[38] When the new ambassador to Beirut, Anne Dismorr, presented her credentials to the President of Lebanon in the autumn of 1999, it became a front-page news story in the country's newspapers.

To top off the newly revived Swedish-Lebanese relations, Foreign Minister Anna Lindh made a visit to Beirut in the spring of 2000.

The embassy's activities would focus on political reporting and aid work, with particular attention to the Syrian civil war and its spillover in Lebanon.

[44] On the night of 10 August 2023, an unknown individual threw a Molotov cocktail-like bomb at the embassy's main entrance.

A police source told the newspaper Expressen that there were strong indications that the motive behind the attack was related to the 2023 Quran burnings in Sweden.

[45] In August 2024, it was reported that the embassy was to temporarily close, and the staff had been advised to travel to Cyprus due to the security situation in the region caused by the Israel–Hezbollah conflict.

[58][59] Between 2000 and 2001, the chancery was located on the 7th floor of the 812 Tabaris Building on Avenue Charles Malek in the Achrafieh area of eastern Beirut.