This is Beirut, 17/10 12:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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 ...
This is Beirut, 13/10 20:20 - Reading : less than a minute
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 ...
This is Beirut, 08/10 21:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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 ...
This is Beirut, 26/09 17:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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 ...
28/08 11:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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 ...
This Is Beirut, 14/07 11:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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 ...
This Is Beirut, 09/07 16:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Abu al-Fadl Qarnabash, the former key bodyguard of Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, was killed on Tuesday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his car on the Damascus-Beirut Road near the Ya'four-Saboura checkpoint, according to information obtained by This is Beirut. Qarnabash had a role within the pro-Iranian ...
This Is Beirut, 26/05 17:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia named a new ambassador to Damascus Sunday, state media said, more than a year after the two Arab nations resumed ties following a prolonged rift over Syria's war. The official Saudi Press Agency said the government had appointed Faisal bin Saud Al-Mejfel as its ambassador to Syria. The newly appointed envoy, according to the report, ...
This Is Beirut, 25/05 14:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Israeli drone strike in central Syria killed two fighters from Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement on Saturday, a war monitor said. "An Israeli drone fired two missiles at a Hezbollah car and truck near the town of Qusayr in Homs province, as they were on their way to Al-Dabaa military airport, killing at least two Hezbollah fighters and ...
This Is Beirut, 25/05 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A car bomb killed a Syrian officer working with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Damascus Saturday, a war monitor said, with state media reporting one dead without identifying the victim. Bombings targeting military and civilian vehicles still occur intermittently in the Syrian capital more than 12 years into a devastating civil war. "A ...
This Is Beirut, 14/04 19:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's foreign minister on Sunday said Tehran had informed the United States and gave a 72-hour warning to neighboring countries of its retaliatory attack on Israel. "We announced... to the White House in a message that our operations will be limited, minimal and will be aimed at punishing the Israeli regime," said Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. The ...
This Is Beirut, 13/04 11:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An explosive device detonated in a car in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus, Syrian state media said on Saturday, quoting a police source. "The explosion heard a short while ago in the Mazzeh area resulted from an explosive device detonating in a car in al-Huda square," Syria's official SANA news agency said, quoting a Damascus police command ...