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U.S. Strikes Iran Bases Threatening Blocked Hormuz Oil Route
This is Beirut 21/03 17:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The U.S. military declared on Saturday it had damaged an Iranian bunker housing weapons threatening oil and gas shipments in the Strait of Hormuz, as thousands of Iranians marked Eid al-Fitr with prayer. The U.S. statement appeared designed to calm the concerns of energy markets and of Washington's sceptical international allies, more than 20 of ...
Trump Gives Iran 48 Hours to Open Hormuz as Tehran Strikes Israel
This is Beirut 22/03 07:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping or face the destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launched its most destructive attack yet on Israel. The ultimatum, made just a day after the U.S. leader said he was considering "winding down" military operations after ...
Iranian Missiles Sow Panic, Destruction in Israeli Towns
This is Beirut 22/03 07:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Sheltering from an Iranian missile attack on his town in southern Israel on Saturday, 17-year-old Ido Franky heard "terrifying" blasts like nothing he had experienced before. An Iranian missile hit Franky's town of Arad, hours after another struck Dimona -- home to a nuclear facility -- wounding dozens and leaving entire apartment ...
Israel Launches Wave of Strikes on South Lebanon, Hits Bridge
This is Beirut 22/03 16:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israel said it struck Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon on Sunday shortly after the military was ordered to destroy bridges used by the Iran-backed militant group across the Litani River. Lebanese official media reported Israeli raids in several areas of the south, while an AFP correspondent saw smoke billowing from a key bridge that was hit ...
Israel Pounds Southern Lebanon Amid Hezbollah Attacks
This is Beirut 20/03 18:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Hezbollah claimed responsibility for multiple attacks against Israeli settlements and military positions, while Israeli forces have responded with airstrikes and artillery targeting southern Lebanon on Friday, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. The militant group reportedly targeted Israeli settlements including Kiryat Shmona, ...
Lebanon PM Says Iran Guards Commanding Hezbollah Operations in Lebanon
This is Beirut 22/03 22:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Sunday that members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards are commanding Hezbollah's operations in the group's ongoing war against Israel. In an interview with the Al Hadath network, Salam once again lashed out at Hezbollah for dragging Lebanon into the Middle East war by firing rockets on ...
Israel to 'Advance Targeted Ground Operations' in Lebanon: Army Chief
This is Beirut 22/03 22:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel's military will expand its ground operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah, its army chief said Sunday, warning that the offensive against the group was still in its early stages. Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran's supreme leader ...
Iran Awaits Trump Threat to Blow up Power Plants
This is Beirut 23/03 02:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran on Monday faces a deadline by President Donald Trump to open up the crucial Strait of Hormuz or face a major US assault on power plants, as Israel warned of weeks more of war. Israel also gave the clearest signs yet it intends a ground campaign into Lebanon, destroying a key bridge as it vows to crush Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim movement ...
Iraqi Pro-Iran Group Extends Pause in U.S. Embassy Attacks
This is Beirut 23/03 06:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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An Iran-backed armed group announced on Monday that it would continue its five-day pause on attacking the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Since the start of the war in the Middle East, pro-Iran armed groups have claimed responsibility for near-daily attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq and across the region, while strikes have also targeted these ...
Weapons Smuggling to Hezbollah Persists Along Syria-Lebanon Border
This is Beirut 23/03 10:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Attempts to smuggle weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon have continued unabated since the group joined the war on March 2, despite repeated interdictions, according to a report by Alma Research Center. Recent incidents underscore the ongoing trend. On March 14, Syrian authorities seized five Konkurs anti-tank missiles reportedly destined ...
Iraqi PM Says Accelerating Withdrawal of Anti-Jihadist Coalition Forces
This is Beirut 23/03 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iraqi leader Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said he would accelerate the dismantling of a US-led international anti-jihadist coalition, in an interview with an Italian newspaper published Monday. The prime minister's comments come as the country finds itself unwillingly drawn into the conflict in the Middle East, which began with Israeli and US strikes ...
Israel Army Confirms Own Artillery Fire Killed Civilian On Northern Border Sunday
This is Beirut 23/03 13:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Israeli military on Monday said its own artillery fire killed an Israeli civilian a day earlier near the northern border with Lebanon, where its forces are fighting Hezbollah. After opening an investigation, the military said "the initial findings suggest that the Israeli civilian was killed by IDF artillery fire conducted to support IDF ...
Trump to Postpone Strikes on Iran Power Plants After ‘Productive’ Talks
This is Beirut 23/03 15:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Trump announced on Monday that the United States and Iran have engaged in what he described as “very good and productive” talks over the past two days, aimed at achieving a comprehensive resolution to ongoing tensions in the Middle East. Citing the constructive tone of the discussions, Trump said he has ordered a temporary five-day ...
Washington and Tehran Disagree on the Status of Negotiations
This is Beirut 23/03 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Washington and “representatives” from Tehran had held “very good and productive conversations” over the past two days, and he had subsequently instructed the Department of Defense to postpone military strikes on Iranian power plants for five days—emphasizing that current ...
Strikes Continue as Israeli Ground Offensive Widens
This is Beirut 23/03 18:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israeli strikes intensified throughout Lebanon on Monday, with attacks on key bridges linking areas north and south of the Litani River, a targeted killing in the Christian-majority city of Hazmieh east of Beirut, and incidents across UNIFIL positions in the south. Israeli troops moved into Aita al-Shaab in a ground offensive, while more than 18 ...
Ship Traffic Down 95% in Strait of Hormuz
This is Beirut 23/03 19:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Just a trickle of cargo ships and tankers—most of them Iranian—have made it through the Strait of Hormuz since Iranian forces effectively blocked the crucial trade route in the Middle East war. Here are facts and figures about vessels that have passed through the 167-kilometre (104-mile) long strait since the war broke out with US-Israeli ...
Ghalibaf: Iran's New Strongman Running War Effort
This is Beirut 23/03 20:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's parliament speaker and a veteran of the Revolutionary Guards, has emerged as the highest-profile political figure in the Islamic republic after the killing of its leaders. A pillar of the Iranian establishment for some three decades and one of the Islamic republic's most prominent non-clerical figures, Ghalibaf, ...
London Summons Iranian Ambassador Following Allegations of Spying
This is Beirut 23/03 20:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Britain's foreign ministry on Monday summoned Iran's ambassador to London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, criticizing what it called Tehran's "reckless and destabilizing actions" in the UK and overseas. "The summons follows the recent charging of two individuals, one Iranian national and one British-Iranian dual national, under the National Security Act, on ...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Global Network Funding Hezbollah
This is Beirut 20/03 18:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday the designation of a network of 16 individuals and entities led by Hezbollah financier Alaa Hassan Hamieh. According to Treasury, the network, operating across Lebanon, Syria, Poland, Slovenia, Qatar, and Canada, has laundered and diverted over ...
Mossad Chief Tells Israeli Leadership Regime Change in Iran is Possible, Sources Say
This is Beirut 20/03 17:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Mossad Director David Barnea reportedly assessed in meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government prior to the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran that it could be possible to topple the Iranian regime, according to Israeli media. Citing multiple unnamed sources, Barnea outlined that if the operation achieved ...
Gulf States Urge U.S. to Neutralize Iran for Good
This is Beirut 17/03 13:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Gulf Arab states are increasingly pressing the United States to continue its military campaign against Iran, warning that a premature halt could leave Tehran capable of threatening the region’s critical energy infrastructure and economic stability, according to sources cited by the Times of Israel. While Gulf governments initially opposed the ...
UAE Condemns Targeting of South Pars Gas Field, after Iran Blames U.S., Israel
This is Beirut 18/03 18:15 - Reading : less than a minute
The UAE condemned the targeting on Wednesday of Iranian facilities in a gas field shared with Qatar, calling the attack attributed by Iran to the US and Israel a "dangerous escalation" in a rare rebuke. "The United Arab Emirates affirmed that targeting energy facilities linked to the South Pars gas field in the Islamic Republic of ...
Oil Prices Climb as Fresh Strikes Target Infrastructure
This is Beirut 17/03 14:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Oil prices surged Tuesday as Iran launched fresh attacks on crude-producing neighbors, while several countries pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's demand to help secure the crucial Strait of Hormuz. Prices rebounded from the previous day's sharp losses, which came after the head of the International Energy Agency said more ...
Missile Debris Kills One in Abu Dhabi as Iran Presses Gulf Attacks
This is Beirut 17/03 16:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Falling debris from missile interceptions killed one person on Tuesday in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi and injured two medical staff in Kuwait, authorities said, as Iran pressed its attacks against Gulf countries. The oil-rich Gulf has borne the brunt of Iran's reprisals for US-Israeli strikes that sparked the Middle East war, with Tehran ...
Security Source Says U.S. Embassy Struck as Explosions Heard in Baghdad
This is Beirut 17/03 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Several loud explosions were heard Tuesday evening in Iraq's capital Baghdad, AFP journalists reported, with a security official reporting a drone and rocket attack on the US embassy. In a restaurant in the city, where diners did not react to the initial sounds of the blasts, a witness told AFP he saw detonations caused by the embassy's ...
Ron Dermer: ‘It Is Possible to Talk about Potential Peace Agreement’ with Lebanon
This is Beirut 17/03 21:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ron Dermer, recently-appointed head of the Israeli negotiating delegation with Lebanon, expressed that he is “making progress with Lebanon” regarding a political agreement between the two countries. On a deal with Lebanon, he expressed that “it is possible to talk about a potential peace agreement, but for a deal to be ...
Iraq Asks Iran for Oil Tanker Passage through Strait of Hormuz
This is Beirut 17/03 22:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iraq was in contact with Iran to try to arrange passage for some of its oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, the country's oil minister told local media. A founding member of the OPEC cartel, crude oil sales make up 90 percent of Iraq's budget revenues. Before the outbreak of war on February 28, Iraq mainly shipped its ...
Iran Arrests Alleged 'Monarchist' Networks, Suspected Spies as War Rages
This is Beirut 18/03 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Iranian authorities said on Wednesday they had arrested more than 100 alleged "monarchist cells" plotting against the Islamic Republic, along with suspected spies and individuals accused of cooperating with an outlawed television channel. Forces from the Intelligence Ministry "have identified and arrested 111 monarchist cells across 26 provinces ...
Ankara Says NATO Deploys New Patriot Battery as Strikes Continue
This is Beirut 18/03 12:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Turkey's defence ministry said Wednesday NATO was deploying a new Patriot missile battery at Incirlik air base, just days after a third ballistic missile from Iran was shot down. "Another Patriot system... is being deployed... in addition to the existing Spanish Patriot system stationed there," a ministry official told reporters at the Turkish ...
Facts About Strait of Hormuz War Blockage
This is Beirut 18/03 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Key facts and figures about the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route virtually paralyzed by the Middle East war. Around a fifth of global crude oil and liquefied natural gas pass through the waterway in peacetime. The war erupted on February 28 when the US and Israel began bombing Iran, prompting it to retaliate with ...