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Israel Announces End of Strikes Against Military Compounds in Iran

This is Beirut, 2024-10-26 15:49 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Shortly before 6 a.m. on Saturday, the Israeli army announced the end of its nightly air strike against Iran. The attack lasted almost three hours and was carried out in three waves, during which Iranian military sites were targeted - 20 according to the New York Times. For the time being, it is not possible to comment on the impact or damage ...

The Maronite Church, Prisoner of Its Own Memory

Fady Noun, 2024-10-26 13:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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For some Lebanese Christians, the 1860 massacres remain an open wound — a persistent thorn in their collective memory. The painful recollection of this brutality resurfaced during the canonization of the Massabki brothers, who were martyred in Damascus on the night of July 9-10, 1860. How did it come to pass that over 20,000 Christians — half ...

War Monitor Says Two Dead in Israeli Strikes on Syria

This is Beirut, 2024-10-24 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A Syria war monitor said Israeli strikes in the capital and in central Homs province on Thursday killed two people, including a soldier. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes in Damascus's Kafr Sousa district targeted "the courtyard of a government building near a military fuel station". "One person whose identity is unknown" ...

Syrian State Media Say Israeli Strikes Kill Soldier

This is Beirut, 2024-10-24 10:00 - Reading : less than a minute

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Syrian state media reported that Israeli airstrikes hit a residential area of Damascus and a military site in Homs on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding seven others. The Israeli army "launched an attack from the occupied Syrian Golan and from northern Lebanon, targeting two sites" in the Kafr Sousa district of Damascus and a military ...

Canonization of the Massabki Brothers: A Triumph of Blood Ecumenism

Fady Noun, 2024-10-20 19:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Bechara Rai Damascus Pope Francis Church canonization Maronite

Today, October 20, the universal Church has been graced with the addition of 14 new figures of holiness, including eleven martyrs: eight Franciscan religious and three Maronite laymen, the brothers Francis, Abdel Mohti, and Raphael Massabki.  All were brutally killed in Damascus during the night of July 9 to 10, 1860, for their refusal to ...

Israel Strikes Latakia in Syria, Wounding Two

This is Beirut, 2024-10-17 12:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syrian state media said a rare Israeli air strike on Thursday on the city of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, wounded two civilians. "At around 2:50 am (2350 GMT), the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack... targeting one of the points near the southeast entrance of the city of Latakia," state news agency SANA said, citing a ...

Visit of European Security Official to Damascus

This is Beirut, 2024-10-13 20:20 - Reading : less than a minute

Damascus

A senior European security official recently visited Damascus, where he met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and some of his security staff. The visit was shrouded in media blackout and secrecy. However, leaked information indicated that it covered the evolution of the situation in the region and new developments, as well as the French-American ...

Israeli Strike on Damascus Targets Building Used by IRGC

This is Beirut, 2024-10-08 21:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Tuesday that nine people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Damascus, used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for meetings with Hezbollah. The Syrian Defense Ministry announced that among the dead were women and children. The target of the ...

War Monitor Denies Claims Iran Moving Forces Through Golan

This is Beirut, 2024-09-26 17:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Thursday denied claims that 40,000 Iran-backed militiamen had entered the Golan Heights from the Syrian borders. Israeli army officials had claimed a day earlier that Iran was moving troops into Lebanon, according to a Haaretz report. Some Israeli media outlets reported that around 40,000 fighters ...

Israeli Strike Kills Four on Beirut-Damascus Highway

2024-08-28 11:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Damascus

Israel carried out a drone strike on a vehicle traveling on the Beirut-Damascus highway, near the Zabadani bridge. Four people were reported killed. Israel also conducted artillery strikes near the town of Aitaroun in south Lebanon on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, Israeli aircraft targeted two Hezbollah trucks about 10 km from Baalbek, on the ...

Syrian Soldier Killed in Israeli Strike on Damascus

This Is Beirut, 2024-07-14 11:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A Syrian soldier was killed early on Sunday and three others were injured in Israeli strikes on several positions in and around Damascus, Syrian state media said. Meanwhile, the Israeli army said it had targeted a Syrian military command center as well as targets and infrastructure belonging to the Syrian army and air defense in response to two ...

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