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The United States said Sunday that it had a strong military presence in the Middle East after deploying reinforcements amid Israel's widening of the war to include hundreds of targets in Lebanon. With Israel pressing on with a bombing campaign against Hezbollah and with its campaign in Gaza, White House national security spokesman John Kirby ...
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Jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on Monday urged the international community to act to end the "oppression" of women in Iran, two years after the start of a women-led protest movement. "I call on international institutions and people around the world... to take active action," she said in a letter written in Tehran's Evin prison ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/01 13:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Amid escalating tensions in the Red Sea, British Defense Secretary, Grant Shapps, has declared Britain's willingness to take direct action against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, speaking on Monday, expressed Britain's readiness to take direct action against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have been ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/01 17:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Tasnim news agency on Monday, reported that the Alborz warship from Iran has navigated into the Red Sea via the strategically significant Bab el-Mandeb strait. This comes amid increased tensions surrounding the globally crucial waterway. Iran's Alborz warship has entered the Red Sea through the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait, Tasnim news ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/01 16:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel launched pre-dawn airstrikes near the Syrian capital on Tuesday at a time of heightened regional tensions over the Gaza war, according to Syria's official news agency SANA, citing a military source. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, reported that Israel targeted a military position, also housing members of ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/01 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A pair of bomb explosions on Wednesday, claimed the lives of at least 103 individuals in Iran. They tore through a gathering commemorating the fourth anniversary of the death of Revolutionary Guards General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US strike. State media provided the reported details of the tragic incident. Twin bomb blasts killed at ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/01 22:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States categorically denied, on Wednesday, any implication that either itself or its ally Israel was responsible for the fatal explosions in Iran. The statement emphasized a rejection of such suggestions and cautioned against further escalation, particularly in the aftermath of a suspected Israeli attack on a Hamas leader in ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/01 22:49 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its 89th day, was triggered by a bloody and unprecedented attack carried out by the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7 on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip. Approximately 1,140 people, mostly civilians, were killed in this attack, according to an AFP count based on the latest Israeli toll, with ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/01 13:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A military commander from the Hashd al-Shaabi, a former paramilitary faction, was reported killed on Thursday, in a US strike in Baghdad. Additionally, an Iraqi security official stated that two deaths occurred in a drone attack. A US strike in Baghdad on Thursday killed a military commander of the Hashd al-Shaabi, an ex-paramilitary faction of ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/01 14:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran observed a day of mourning Thursday for the at least 84 people killed when twin blasts ripped through a crowd commemorating the slain Revolutionary Guards general Qassem Soleimani. The death toll was revised down from around 100 the day after what Iranian authorities labelled a "terrorist attack" that also left hundreds wounded near ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/01 19:09 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility on Thursday, for the twin bombings that resulted in the death of at least 84 individuals during a memorial ceremony in Iran for the late Revolutionary Guards general Qasem Soleimani. The Islamic State jihadist group said Thursday that it carried out twin bombings which killed at least 84 ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/01 20:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna agreed to seek steps to avoid a wider Middle East war following strikes in Lebanon and Iran, the US State Department said Thursday. In a telephone call the day before, the two top diplomats "discussed the importance of measures to prevent the conflict in Gaza from ...
