This is Beirut, 2024-11-26 20:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam SOHR Syria Hezbollah
Israeli airstrikes hit two locations in Syria's Homs province on Tuesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). One target was near the Al-Aminiya farm, north of Homs city, while the other was near the village of Khirbet al-Tin, west of the city. The SOHR reported that these areas, predominantly inhabited by Shiite ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-25 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Syria Qusayr Hezbollah
Syrian state television reported Israeli strikes on several bridges in the Qusayr region near the Lebanese border on Monday, with the defense ministry reporting two people were killed and five were injured in the attacks. Israel's military has intensified its strikes on targets in Syria since its conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighboring ...
Makram Haddad, 2024-11-25 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Basket-ball Syria Qualification War
War or not, Lebanese basketball continues to shine on the regional and international stage. Proof of this, the national team inflicted a clear and decisive defeat against Syria (89-64). From the outset of the game, Lebanon displayed its power with an impressive 15-0 run, a slap in the face in the first minutes, on the court of the Chabab al-Ahli ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-25 16:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria OPCW Bashar Al-Assad Chemical Weapons
The world's chemical watchdog said Monday that it was "seriously concerned" by large gaps in Syria's declaration about its chemical weapons stockpile, as large quantities of potentially banned warfare agents might be involved. Syria agreed in 2013 to join the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, shortly after an ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-25 09:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
At least 15 Ankara-backed Syrian fighters were killed Sunday after Kurdish-led forces infiltrated their territory in the country's north, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said. Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls swathes of the country's northeast, "infiltrated positions of the Turkish-backed" ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-24 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Geir Otto Pedersen Syria Gaza United Nations
The UN special envoy for Syria said on Sunday that it was “extremely critical” to end the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza to avoid the country being pulled into a regional war. “We need now to make sure that we have immediately a ceasefire in Gaza, that we have a ceasefire in Lebanon, and that we avoid Syria being dragged even ...
Vanessa Kallas, 2024-11-22 19:45 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Syria Taxi War
Trapped in no man's land on the war-torn Lebanon-Syria border, taxi drivers risk their lives to earn a living by transporting passengers between two deep craters created by Israeli airstrikes.
This is Beirut, 2024-11-21 19:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam UN Security Council United Nations Iran Syria
A Syria war monitor said on Friday that Israeli strikes on the city of Palmyra this week killed 92 pro-Iran fighters, after a United Nations representative said they were likely the deadliest to date. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday's attack targeted three sites in Palmyra, with one hitting a meeting of pro-Iranian ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-21 09:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli strikes killed 71 pro-Iran militants in the Syrian city of Palmyra, with more than a third of them identified as fighters from Iraq and Lebanon, a monitor said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in Wednesday's strikes included 45 fighters from pro-Iran Syrian groups, 26 foreign fighters, most of them from ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-16 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Syria Islamic Jihad
Two senior Islamic Jihad figures were killed in an Israeli strike on Syria this week, said on Saturday the Palestinian group which has fought against Israel in Gaza alongside Hamas. An Islamic Jihad statement confirmed that Abdel Aziz Minawi and Rasmi Yusuf Abu Issa were killed alongside "a group of the movement's cadres" in the ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-15 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Damascus Syria Mazzeh Area
Syrian state-run media said Israel struck the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus on Friday, the second such attack in as many days to hit the neighborhood home to embassies, security headquarters and United Nations offices. Attacks blamed on or claimed by Israel have intensified in Syria, including in areas near the Lebanese border mainly ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-15 09:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Sanctions Iran Syria Iran Proxy US State Department
The US unveiled sanctions Thursday against 26 people, firms and ships allegedly associated with a Syrian conglomerate making hundreds of millions of dollars selling oil on behalf of Iran and its proxies. The US Treasury Department said in a statement that its designations were related to the Al-Qatirji Company, which it accuses of generating vast ...