2024-01-24 11:08 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Bahrain Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates
The prospects for a new Abraham Accord between Saudi Arabia and Israel seem open today. While the Wahhabi Kingdom quietly nurtured relations with Tel Aviv for several years, particularly in the intelligence realm, it is true that the officialization of their rapprochement is vital for both countries. For this purpose, specific conditions are ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-23 22:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Kingdom United Nations United States
Houthis in Yemen have directed all employees of the United Nations and its affiliated agencies from the United States and the United Kingdom to leave the country within the coming month. This information was conveyed by a UN official to AFP. Houthis in Yemen have instructed all personnel from the United States and the United Kingdom working for ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-23 21:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The EU's Trade Commissioner reported on Tuesday that maritime traffic along the Red Sea shipping route has decreased by 22 percent within a month, attributing the decline to attacks on international vessels carried out by Yemen's Houthis. Maritime traffic through the Red Sea shipping route has fallen by 22 percent in a month due to attacks on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-22 20:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States imposed sanctions on the Iraqi low-cost airline Fly Baghdad on Monday, citing its alleged support for Iran's Revolutionary Guards and proxies. The sanctions also targeted leaders of an Iraq militia with pro-Iranian affiliations. The United States announced sanctions Monday on Iraqi low-cost airline Fly Baghdad, saying it ...
2024-01-21 10:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Palestine Hamas Benjamin Netanyahu Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan received Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Turkey on Sunday to discuss the release of the Israeli hostages and the introduction of a ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas's Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh has held a meeting with the Turkish foreign minister, diplomatic sources said on Sunday, in the first official contact ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-21 10:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palestine Hamas Benjamin Netanyahu
The Israeli Prime Minister reaffirmed to the US President his opposition to the restoration of Palestinian sovereignty in Gaza. Fierce fighting continued on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, while Israel carried out operations in the West Bank, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirming his opposition to "Palestinian sovereignty" in ...
2024-01-20 22:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
With repeated Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, the United States carried out new strikes against the group on Saturday. According to the US Central Command, these were "self-defense" strikes. Another series of airstrikes has been carried out by the United States to fend off the Houthis. The United States carried out fresh strikes against the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-20 22:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq was hit by at least a dozen missiles. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it carried out the attack. At least a dozen missiles were fired on Saturday at a military base used by US-led coalition forces in western Iraq, a US defense source and Iraqi police told AFP. "Al-Asad airbase was targeted by 15 rockets" ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-20 20:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran accused Israel on Saturday of carrying out a strike in Damascus that killed five Revolutionary Guards members, asserting that it "reserves the right to respond… at the appropriate time and place," according to a statement issued by Iranian foreign ministry. Five members of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including two ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-18 21:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's limited cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is causing concern, as IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated in an interview with AFP on Thursday that the agency feels ensnared in the country's disputes with Western nations, characterizing the situation as akin to being held "hostage." Iran is barely cooperating ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-18 19:56 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pakistan carried out strikes on “terrorist hideouts” in the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan early Thursday morning, killing nine people. In a statement, the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that these strikes were in response to attacks launched by Tehran on Tuesday within Pakistani borders against an "Iranian terrorist ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-18 14:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nine civilians, including two children, were killed on Thursday in suspected Jordanian airstrikes, likely targeting drug traffickers in Syria, as Jordan intensified border controls in response to increased smuggling attempts from Syria. At least nine civilians, including two children, were killed Thursday in air strikes on Syria likely to have ...