This is Beirut 17/12 22:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States said Tuesday it felt "cautious optimism" on the prospects of reaching a ceasefire in the 14-month war in Gaza, although it acknowledged that similar hopes had been dashed before. Hamas on Tuesday said that talks mediated by Qatar were "serious and positive," a day after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz described the two ...
This is Beirut 17/12 19:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel Syria Benjamin Netanyahu Mount Hermon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a security briefing Tuesday atop a strategic Syrian mountain inside the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights that Israel seized this month, the defense minister said. Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz and the heads of the armed forces and the domestic security agency visited ...
This is Beirut 17/12 11:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel Naqoura Lebanese Army
In their most recent operations in southern Lebanon, Israeli forces conducted excavation operations using bulldozers in Naqoura early on Tuesday, demolishing several homes. In Kfar Kila, numerous houses were destroyed while drones flew at low altitudes over Tyre. The Israeli Army also fired machine guns toward Naqoura, a town it infiltrated ...
This is Beirut 16/12 19:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Syria Bashar al-Assad Syrian army
When Syria's new government put out a call on social media for soldiers and police to lay down their arms and register with the authorities, Kamal Merhej was happy to oblige. "I don't like the army, I want to get back on track with my life without anyone to give me orders," the 28-year-old told AFP. He spent nine years in the army, posted to the ...
This is Beirut 16/12 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli strikes targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartus region overnight, a war monitor said Monday, calling them "the heaviest strikes" there in years. "Israeli warplanes launched strikes" targeting a series of sites including air defense units and "surface-to-surface missile depots", the Syrian ...
This is Beirut 16/12 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel Hezbollah Ceasefire LAF
Despite the ceasefire in Lebanon established on November 27, certain areas in the south continue to be subjected to bombardments and raids. At dawn on Monday, Israeli soldiers infiltrated the town of Naqoura, and successive explosions targeted and partially destroyed several residences in the region. Israeli airstrikes also hit the village of ...
This is Beirut 16/12 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel Hezbollah Lebanon Ceasefire
Following the ceasefire announced on November 27 and in light of the significant material damage and human losses from a war Lebanon was reluctantly drawn into, several Shiite supporters of Hezbollah from southern Lebanon have filed complaints against the organization. This was reported by the daily Nidaa al-Watan on Monday, citing well-informed ...
This is Beirut 16/12 10:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hamas Israel Palestine United Nations
Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory on Sunday killed at least 40 people, including several children, an Al Jazeera TV cameraman and three rescuers. Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera said its cameraman Ahmed al-Louh was killed "in an Israeli bombardment" that targeted Nuseirat refugee camp in the ...
This is Beirut 15/12 22:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Qatar's embassy to Syria is to resume operations on Tuesday, the Gulf emirate announced on Sunday as its diplomats visited the country and met with its transitional government following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. "Qatar announces the resumption of the work of its embassy in the sisterly Syrian Arab Republic starting the day after ...
This is Beirut 15/12 21:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Residents of Qusayr in central Syria are finally returning home after the departure of Hezbollah fighters, who helped Bashar al-Assad's forces seize the city a decade ago and left with his fall. Many of the houses are now in ruins, after years under the control of the Lebanese armed group, a key Assad ally which had set up a military base and ...
This is Beirut 15/12 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan to double the population of the occupied and annexed Golan Heights, following the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the prime minister's office said. The government had "unanimously approved" the 40 million shekel ($11 million) "plan for the demographic development of the Golan... in light of the ...
This is Beirut 15/12 20:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia's foreign ministry said it has evacuated some of its diplomatic staff from Syria Sunday, a week after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. "On December 15, the withdrawal of part of the personnel of the Russian (diplomatic) representation in Damascus was carried out by a special flight of the Russian Air Force from the Hmeimim airbase" in Syria, ...