This is Beirut, 2024-11-30 17:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Rebel forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad have launched their biggest offensive in years this week, controlling a majority of Syria's second city of Aleppo according to a monitor. Government forces offered little resistance, the war monitor said, and the army admitted that rebels had entered "large parts" of the city. Syrian ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-28 19:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A war monitor said on Thursday more than 200 people, mostly combattants, have been killed in fighting after jihadists and allies launched a major offensive on government-controlled parts of Syria's northwest a day earlier. The toll in ongoing battles "has risen to 182 (combattants), including 102 fighters from HTS", a jihadist ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-15 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Damascus Israel Syria Mazzeh Area
Syrian state-run media said Israel struck the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus on Friday, the second such attack in as many days to hit the neighborhood home to embassies, security headquarters and United Nations offices. Attacks blamed on or claimed by Israel have intensified in Syria, including in areas near the Lebanese border mainly ...
Marc Saikali, 2024-11-15 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
That being said, if Larijani arrives bearing humanitarian aid and suitcases brimming with cash — let’s say at least $5 billion to start rebuilding the tens of thousands of homes destroyed due to his country's successive strategic blunders — then perhaps the 1.5 million internally displaced people, who have lost everything, might greet him ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-14 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Damascus Israel Mazzeh Neighborhood Syria
A war monitor said Israeli strikes in and around Damascus on Thursday killed 20 people including Palestinian militants and Iran-backed fighters, as attacks intensify during the Lebanon war. Israel has ramped up strikes on Syria recently, including in areas near the Lebanese border mainly targeting bastions of Hezbollah. Israel has been at war ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-13 09:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Damascus Israel United States Vladimir Putin
Russia has asked Israel to refrain from conducting airstrikes near its airbase in Syria during Israel's conflict with Hezbollah, as it did in October, a senior Russian official said on Wednesday. Syrian state media reported in mid-October that Israel carried out an airstrike on the port city of Latakia, a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar ...
Natasha Metni Torbey, 2024-11-12 10:30 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Amos Hochstein Damascus Donald Trump Russia
Caught in the crossfire between Israel and Iran—through its proxies Hamas and Hezbollah—Lebanon is plunging deeper into uncertainty. Under the looming threat of military escalation, the country, now stripped of its ability to influence its own fate, has become the focal point of numerous international negotiations, which remain ambiguous and ...
Johnny Kortbawi, 2024-11-12 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Damascus Rafic Hariri Assassination
Two key figures orchestrated the assassination of the martyred former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, although the International Tribunal for Lebanon had initially accused four suspects and later added a fifth. Mustafa Badreddine and Salim Ayyash were the main perpetrators. The others were primarily accused of fabricating the Abu Adas video and ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-11 14:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syrian state media reported an Israeli strike on Monday on a village near the city of Homs, a day after a deadly strike on a building in the Damascus area. “An Israeli aggression” targeted the “surroundings of the Shinshar region south of Homs,” state news agency SANA said, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-10 19:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Damascus Sayyida Zainab Area Syria
An Israeli strike on Sunday south of Damascus targeted a Hezbollah apartment, killing nine people including Ali Moussa Daqdouq, a Hezbollah official responsible for the group’s operations in the Golan Heights. Several Syrian media outlet, reported a toll of nine dead and twenty wounded in the strike. Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the ...
Chelsea Al Arif, 2024-11-07 12:55 - Reading : less than a minute
Damascus Beirut Airstrike Araya
An Israeli drone launched two missiles on a car in Araya, on the main road linking Beirut to Damascus, killing one woman and injuring Two.
This is Beirut, 2024-11-04 21:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Damascus Sayyeda Zaynab Area IRGC
Israel's military said its air force struck the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah's Syrian branch in a strike on Damascus on Monday, an attack a war monitor said killed two people. It was a rare acknowledgement by Israeli authorities of an attack against Syria. The military has intensified its strikes on targets in Syria since ...