This is Beirut 10/03 20:01 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Members of Syria's small Christian community on the coast are living in fear after attacks killed more than 1,000 mostly Alawite civilians, with Christians reportedly caught up in the violence. "The current conflict in Syria does not concern me, but we are its victims," said Ruwayda, a 36-year-old Christian from the port city of ...
This is Beirut 10/03 18:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged Monday to continue providing Syria with "every kind of support" while condemning the wave of violence that has gripped the northwest in recent days. "We will continue to provide every kind of support possible for our neighbor Syria to recover and preserve its territorial integrity... and to achieve ...
This is Beirut 10/03 17:41 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, after more than 1,000 civilians were killed in the worst violence since his overthrow. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces and allied groups had killed 1,068 civilians, the vast majority ...
This is Beirut 10/03 13:01 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday ahead of talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia that Ukraine wants peace and Russia is the "only reason" that the war has dragged on. Zelensky is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia later Monday, a day ahead of crucial talks between Ukrainian and US officials on ending the war with ...
This is Beirut 10/03 12:55 - Reading : less than a minute
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Ukrainian flags are now flying across the city of Jeddah in anticipation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's arrival in Saudi Arabia. A brief Saudi Foreign Ministry statement said the US-Ukrainian talks would be held in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. This comes just ahead of crucial talks with US officials aimed at finding a path to end the ...
This is Beirut 10/03 12:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus was, on Monday morning, the scene of violent clashes between Syrian security forces and armed elements from the previous regime, marking an unprecedented development since the beginning of the confrontations last Thursday. According to “Al-Araby Television Network”, based in Qatar, an armed group attacked ...
This is Beirut 10/03 12:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The worst violence to hit Syria since Bashar al-Assad's ouster poses a major threat to the transition, with mass killings of civilians throwing into doubt the new authorities' ability to govern. The sectarian violence in the Alawite heartland on Syria's Mediterranean coast has also drawn condemnation from the international community, after 13 ...
This is Beirut 10/03 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran on Monday rejected media reports accusing the Islamic republic of involvement in the violence in Alawite areas of Syria, which has left hundreds of civilians dead. Fighting erupted on Thursday between Syria's new security forces and loyalists of the former government of toppled president Bashar al-Assad, a long-time Tehran ally. War monitor ...
This is Beirut 10/03 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's foreign ministry said on Monday the decision by the United States to end a sanctions waiver that had allowed Iraq to buy electricity from Iran was "illegal". "Such statements are an admission of lawlessness, an admission of crimes against humanity, because the US sanctions, the unilateral US sanctions, against the Iranian nation have no ...
Michel Touma 10/03 11:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The main pieces are being put in place… A likely diplomatic showdown — or, if diplomacy fails, a military confrontation — between the Iranian axis and the Western camp is clearly taking shape, both in Lebanon and across the regional landscape. Several clear signs of this looming standoff have surfaced in recent days amid an increasingly ...
This is Beirut 10/03 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel is due to send a delegation to Doha on Monday for a fresh round of talks on extending a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, after cutting off the electricity supply to ramp up pressure on Hamas. The first phase of the truce ended on March 1 with no agreement on subsequent stages that could secure a permanent end to the war, but both sides have ...
This is Beirut 10/03 09:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Argentina announced three days of national mourning late Sunday after authorities raised the death toll from recent flash flooding to 16, with more still missing. The deadly floods struck Friday when a year's worth of rain fell in a matter of hours in and around Bahia Blanca, a major port city located in the south of Buenos Aires province, with ...