2024-04-14 16:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
As Iranians claim victory, Israelis and Western officials, on the other hand, characterize the operation dubbed “Honest Promise” as a failure. Of the 300 or so drones and ballistic and cruise missiles fired by Iran towards Israel on Saturday night, 99% were intercepted, according to Israeli army figures. This raises the question: Was Iran's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-14 13:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Australian police have identified a 40-year-old man as the perpetrator of a shopping centre stabbing rampage that killed six people and left several more in a critical condition. New South Wales police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said Sunday the man had come from the northeast state of Queensland and was known to law enforcement. "There ...
2024-04-14 12:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron expressed solidarity with Israel on Sunday and warned against a regional "conflagration." The German government condemned the Iranian strikes against Israel on Sunday, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressing concern about the risk of "conflagration" in the region, which could ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-14 05:02 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A few thousand people gathered in Iran's main cities to welcome and support the unprecedented attack launched on Saturday night against Israel, the Islamic Republic's nemesis for the past 45 years. Thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Iran early Sunday in a show of support for the unprecedented drone and missile attack under way against ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 17:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Germany will send an additional Patriot air defense system to Ukraine to bolster its hard-pressed military and help it fend off increased Russian aerial attacks, Berlin said Saturday. "Russian terror against Ukrainian cities and the country's infrastructure is causing immeasurable suffering," said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 16:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Iranian police announced on Saturday that they had stepped up checks on the compulsory wearing of veils by women in the street, lamenting the fact that they are increasingly disregarded. "The police in Tehran, as in other provinces, will intervene against individuals who promote (...) not wearing the veil," warned the capital's police chief, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 13:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tel Aviv has warned Iran of the consequences of any escalation in the region, following the seizure by a Pasdaran commando of a ship linked to Israel. Iranian Revolutionary Guards took control of the Portuguese ship MSC ARIES in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. The ship is currently sailing in the Persian Gulf, according to ship-tracking website ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 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 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 11:16 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
"The situation on the eastern front has deteriorated significantly in recent days" in the face of a heightened Russian offensive, Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Saturday. Syrsky, who took over as commander-in-chief in February after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his popular predecessor, Valery Zaluzhny, said ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 10:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Australian police on Saturday said they had received reports that "multiple people" were stabbed at a busy shopping centre in Sydney, where at least six individuals were reportedly killed. Eight people, including a child, have been taken to the hospital after the attack, according to the ambulance services. The incidents occurred at the sprawling ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-12 12:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Sudan has been brought to its knees by a war between the regular army and rival paramilitaries that has killed thousands of people and displaced 8.5 million more. Here are the main developments in the fighting, which has brought the country of 48 million to the brink of famine. April 2023: Fighting Erupts Explosions rock the capital Khartoum on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-12 10:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A court in Argentina called Iran a "terrorist state" on Friday for its role in two deadly terror attacks against the Israeli embassy and Jewish Centre in the 1990s. Over three decades after deadly attacks in Buenos Aires targeted Israel's embassy and a Jewish center, an Argentinian court placed the blame on Thursday on Iran and declared it a ...