This is Beirut 07/07 12:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes carried out a wave of intense airstrikes across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa on Sunday evening, targeting multiple locations. The strikes come on the eve of US envoy Tom Barrack’s expected arrival in Beirut. Barrack is due to receive Lebanon’s formal response to Washington’s proposed roadmap aimed at resolving two major ...
This is Beirut 07/07 03:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel said early Monday that it carried out a wave of strikes on the Yemeni port city of Hodeida and other areas held by the Huthi rebels. In a statement, Israel said its fighter jets had "struck and destroyed terror infrastructure belonging to the Huthi terrorist regime. Among the targets were the ports of Hodeida, Ras Isa, and ...
This is Beirut 06/07 13:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas are set to resume Sunday in Doha for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House. Netanyahu had earlier announced he was sending a team to Qatar, a key mediator in the conflict, though he said Hamas's response to a draft US-backed ...
This is Beirut 05/07 14:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel was mulling its response on Saturday after Hamas said it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a US-sponsored proposal for a Gaza ceasefire. The security cabinet was expected to meet after the end of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown to discuss Israel's next steps as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to leave for ...
This is Beirut 04/07 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced on Friday that the Israeli army had eliminated Qassem Salah al-Husseini, an operative working for Iran’s Quds Force, in a drone attack on his vehicle in Khaldeh. Thursday’s strike also injured three other individuals. Adraee wrote on his X account, “Yesterday, the Israeli ...
Bassam Abou Zeid 04/07 15:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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According to Lebanese sources, the anticipated response to the message conveyed by US envoy Tom Barrack regarding the disarmament of Hezbollah is expected to align with what Barrack stated in an interview with The New York Times, specifically the application of a carrot-and-stick approach toward the group. Lebanon's official response, however, ...
This is Beirut 04/07 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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In an interview with The New York Times, Donald Trump’s special envoy for Syria and US ambassador to Turkey, Thomas J. Barrack Jr., revealed that he had recently presented a proposal to the Lebanese government aimed at disarming Hezbollah and reviving the country’s economy. The plan, delivered in June and attributed to Secretary of State ...
This is Beirut 03/07 20:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon, targeting suspected Hezbollah positions, according to the Israeli army. The main strikes hit areas near the Litani River, between Deir Siryan and Zawtar al-Sharqiya, as well as Aishiyeh, Mahmoudiyeh and Jarmaq, northeast of Nabatieh. ...
This is Beirut 03/07 18:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun met on Thursday with Saudi Arabia’s special envoy for Lebanon, Prince Yazid bin Farhan, at Baabda Palace. The Saudi envoy’s visit precedes the arrival in Beirut of United States envoy Tom Barrack, who gave Lebanese officials a one-week deadline to respond to the US roadmap for Lebanon – which aims, among other things, ...
This is Beirut 03/07 17:50 - Reading : less than a minute
An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in Khaldeh, south of Beirut, on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding five others, according to the Ministry of Health. Preliminary reports indicate that the target of the Israeli strike was Qassem al-Husseini, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On his X account, the ...
This is Beirut 02/07 23:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US intelligence assessments indicate that strikes on Iranian nuclear sites set the country's atomic program back by up to two years, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. "We have degraded their program by one to two years at least; intelligence assessments inside the (Defense) Department assess that," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told journalists, ...
This is Beirut 02/07 22:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Syrian state media reported Wednesday that statements on signing a peace agreement with Israel were "premature," days after Israel said it was interested in striking normalization agreements with Syria and neighboring Lebanon. "Statements concerning signing a peace agreement with the Israeli occupation at this time are considered ...