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Aleppo Unrest was Kurdish Fighters' Bid to Wreck Turkey Peace Process: Erdogan's Party
This is Beirut 13/01 09:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Recent deadly clashes in Syria's Aleppo were an attempt by Kurdish fighters to sabotage Turkey's efforts to end a decades-long conflict with the Kurdish militant PKK group, Ankara's ruling party said Monday. "The YPG/SDF terrorist organisation's attacks and the operation in Aleppo... is an attempt to sabotage the goal of a ...
Two dead in Israeli strikes on Lebanon
This is Beirut 21/01 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israeli strikes in south Lebanon killed two people on Wednesday, authorities said, as Israel said it targeted operatives from militant group Hezbollah. Israel has kept up regular strikes in Lebanon despite the November 2024 truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, usually saying it is targeting members of the ...
Trump Warns Iran: “Massive Armada” Headed Your Way
This is Beirut 28/01 14:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran on Wednesday on his Truth Social account, saying a large U.S. naval force is en route and urging Tehran to negotiate a deal to halt its nuclear ambitions. Trump described the deployment as an “Armada” moving quickly toward Iran, and emphasized the fleet’s power and ...
Witkoff to Visit Israel Amid Gaza Ceasefire Efforts
This is Beirut 02/02 15:25 - Reading : less than a minute
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U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to visit Israel on Tuesday for meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and military chief Eyal Zamir, two senior Israeli officials told Reuters on Monday. The trip comes as efforts to advance a Gaza ceasefire continue, despite repeated Israeli strikes and Hamas’s refusal to disarm. Under ...
Hezbollah-Affiliated Al-Akhbar to Scale Back Due to Funding Cuts
This is Beirut 24/01 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al-Akhbar is carrying out widespread terminations and restructuring amid funding cuts, according to Beirut Time News. According to the report, the financial changes were announced suddenly and without prior notice, as departments were reorganized and employees received cuts in their salaries and ...
Tehran Shopkeepers Shut Stores Over Economic Hardship, Currency Volatility
This is Beirut 2025-12-29 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Some shopkeepers in Tehran closed their stores on Monday in protest against economic hardships and sharp swings in Iran's embattled currency, Iranian media reported, following similar demonstrations a day earlier. State news agency IRNA said some shopkeepers and traders at Tehran's bazaar "have closed or partially closed their stores," adding ...
Turkey Steps Up Anti-IS Raids, Arresting 125 Suspects
This is Beirut 2025-12-31 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey on Wednesday detained another 125 Islamic State group suspects in a string of nationwide raids, a minister said, following warnings that IS militants planned attacks over the holidays. Nearly 600 people have now been detained in anti-IS raids over the past week. "We captured 125 Daesh suspects in simultaneous operations carried out in 25 ...
Libya's Top Military Chief Killed in Plane Crash in Turkey
This is Beirut 2025-12-23 22:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The head of Libya's armed forces and four other passengers died on Tuesday when their business jet crashed shortly after taking off from Ankara, officials in Turkey's capital and Tripoli said. The wreckage of their Falcon 50 aircraft was located by Turkish security personnel in the Haymana district near Ankara, Turkish Interior Minister ...
UN Force Says Israeli Tank Fired Near Peacekeepers in Lebanon
This is Beirut 13/01 09:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said an Israeli tank fired near its peacekeepers on Monday, and warned that such attacks were becoming "disturbingly common". UNIFIL has repeatedly reported Israeli fire near or towards its personnel in recent months, and less than two weeks ago said gunfire from an Israeli position hit close ...
Israel Prepares for Possible Iranian “Mistake”
This is Beirut 06/01 13:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israel’s security establishment is preparing for the possibility of a multi-front confrontation, operating on the assumption that any Iranian misstep would trigger a severe military response, carried out with U.S. approval, according to a report by the Israeli daily Maariv. In Tel Aviv, the prevailing question is no longer whether such an ...
Syrian Kurdish Leader in Damascus for Talks on Military Integration
This is Beirut 04/01 14:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi was in Damascus on Sunday for fresh talks with officials on integrating his forces into those of the central military, the Kurds' armed forces said. Abdi signed a deal in March with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to merge the Kurds' semi-autonomous administration into the government by the end of 2025, but ...
Khamenei Issues Pardons Excluding Protest Cases
This is Beirut 10/02 14:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approved pardons or sentence reductions for more than 2,000 convicts on Tuesday, according to the judiciary, while explicitly excluding those linked to recent nationwide protests. According to AFP, the decision, which covered 2,108 inmates, was made at the request of the head of the judiciary and ...
US Senator Accuses Hamas and Hezbollah of Rearming
This is Beirut 2025-12-21 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Senator Lindsey Graham accused Hamas and Hezbollah of rearming during a visit to Israel on Sunday and charged that the Palestinian Islamist group was also consolidating power in Gaza. After two years of war between Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian territory, a fragile ceasefire has held since October, despite both sides trading accusations ...
Fatah Hands Over Weapons to LAF in Ain al-Hilweh
This is Beirut 2025-12-30 12:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Members of the Fatah movement on Tuesday handed over their weapons to the Lebanese Army (LAF) from the movement’s center in Jabal al-Halib, located on the outskirts of the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the Saida district of southern Lebanon. The LAF deployed in the vicinity of the handover site and reinforced security measures to ...
Syria Tells Civilians to Leave Aleppo's Kurdish Areas
This is Beirut 08/01 13:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Syria's military warned civilians in two besieged Kurdish neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo to leave on Thursday, as it prepared to conduct a fresh wave of strikes targeting Kurdish positions. Thousands have already fled the area following clashes between the army and Kurdish-led forces that have killed more than a dozen people. The violence ...
Lebanon Probes Officer’s Disappearance Amid Suspected Mossad Involvement
This is Beirut 2025-12-23 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Lebanese security is conducting investigations under the supervision of Public Prosecutor Judge Jamal Hajjar into the disappearance of retired General Security officer Ahmad Shukr, who has been missing for a week, amid conflicting information about his fate, according to a judicial source quoted by Saudi daily Asharq al Awsat. The source ...
Hezbollah Receives ‘Last-Chance Advice’ from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey to Disarm
This is Beirut 02/01 11:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Lebanese ministerial officials say Hezbollah on Wednesday received “last-chance advice” from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey to hand over its weapons to Lebanon’s government, according to the Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. According to the sources, the countries warned the militant group that failing to disarm would isolate ...
German Chancellor Says Iranian Regime Likely Living its ‘Last Days’
This is Beirut 13/01 11:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday said he believes Iran’s regime is living out its last days, as pressure grows on the Islamic Republic over protests that have reportedly killed hundreds of people. “When a regime can only hold on to power through violence, then it is effectively finished,” Merz tells reporters in Bengaluru, during ...
Shelling Near North Syria's Raqqa City Despite Ceasefire
This is Beirut 19/01 21:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A monitor said clashes erupted on Monday evening between government troops and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on Monday near northern Syria's Raqqa city, a day after the sides agreed a ceasefire. The AFP correspondent in Raqqa reported the sound of heavy bombardment, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported ...
Israel Strikes Northern Bekaa as South Sees Escalation
This is Beirut 23/01 14:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel struck the northern Bekaa Valley on Friday, causing material damage but no reported casualties. The first strike hit the public road linking Majdaloun and Baalbek with two missiles, while the second targeted a site near Dar Al-Amal Hospital in Baalbek. Local reports said the Baalbek strikes were aimed at a military official affiliated with ...
Syria–Kurds Reach Integration Deal After Weeks of Fighting
This is Beirut 30/01 13:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syria’s government and Kurdish forces on Friday reached a broad agreement to gradually integrate Kurdish military units and administrative structures into the central state, following weeks of clashes that ended in a ceasefire. The deal, confirmed by both the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian state television, comes ...
Hezbollah: Is the Company Joud Licensed by the Lebanese State?
This is Beirut 2025-12-26 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hezbollah’s newly established company, Joud, linked to its financial arm Al Qard al Hassan, has reportedly obtained official Lebanese licensing despite several of its leaders being under U.S. sanctions, according to an investigation by Saudi channel al-Hadath. As part of a strategy aimed at circumventing both Lebanese laws and international ...
George Clooney, Amal, and Twins Embrace French Citizenship
This is Beirut 2025-12-30 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hollywood star George Clooney has become French, along with his wife, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and their two children, an official decree seen by AFP on Monday showed. The publication, in France's government gazette, confirms an ambition Clooney alluded to early in December when he hailed French privacy laws that keep his family shielded from ...
Syrian Forces Push Out Kurdish Fighters as U.S. Hits ISIS
This is Beirut 12/01 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as U.S. and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets. An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish ...
Israeli Official Describes Israel-Syria Negotiations as "Positive"
This is Beirut 06/01 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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An Israeli source on Tuesday described the atmosphere of negotiations between Israel and Syria in Paris as positive, though sources briefed on the talks said it would fall far short of a full peace treaty. Axios quoted an Israeli official as saying that Syria and Israel expressed their desire to reach a security agreement within the framework of ...
Israel Strikes Two Buildings in South Lebanon Village, Issues Further Evacuation Orders
This is Beirut 15/01 16:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel struck two buildings in Lebanon’s southern village of Sohmor on Thursday targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after evacuation warnings. Shortly after the Israeli military announced having struck positions in Lebanon, its Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee warned of a second evacuation order, this time for the south Lebanon ...
Exclusive: Trump States U.S. Decision Not to Attack Iran Due to Cancelled Executions
This is Beirut 16/01 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Speaking to the press on Friday, President Trump stated that his decision not to attack Iran was not influenced by Arab and Israeli officials, but rather due to Iran cancelling the mass-execution of 800 protesters. When asked why he made this decision, he stressed that “nobody convinced me, I convinced myself. [Iran] had yesterday scheduled ...
Israel Prepares for “Days of Fighting” Along the Lebanese Border
This is Beirut 2025-12-31 17:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel is preparing for possible “days of fighting” along the Lebanese border, as the deadline set by the U.S. for the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah by the end of 2025 expires on Wednesday, Israeli media reported. The U.S. news site Axios, citing American officials, reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the ...
Iran Police Officer Killed in Stabbing During Unrest Near Tehran: Local Media
This is Beirut 08/01 08:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Iranian police officer was killed in a stabbing during unrest near the capital, local media reported on Thursday, as protests over the cost of living in the country entered a 12th day. Shahin Dehghan, a member of the police force in Malard county west of Tehran, "was martyred a few hours ago after being stabbed during efforts to control ...
Iran FM Meets Delegation in Lebanon
This is Beirut 09/01 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who arrived Thursday in Beirut, met Friday with President Joseph Aoun and Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji. During the meetings, FM Rajji asked his counterpart if Iran would accept an illegal armed organization on its territories. FM Araghchi said that Iran supports Hezbollah as a ...