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UN Security Council Emergency to Meet on Monday After Iran Request

This is Beirut, 2024-10-27 16:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday at Iran's request following Israel's deadly missile strikes in retaliation for an October 1 attack by Tehran. The Swiss presidency of the UNSC said Sunday that the meeting would take place following the request by Iran, supported by Algeria, China and Russia. Earlier on ...

Iran Says Will Respond “With Wisdom” to Israel, Khamenei Comments Attacks

This is Beirut, 2024-10-27 11:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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In his first reaction to the Israeli airstrikes that hit military targets in Iran on Saturday, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian stated that his country “will respond to any act of foolishness with wisdom and intelligence,” according to Iran International. He also mourned the loss of four Iranian soldiers in the Israeli strikes, ...

Israel Announces End of Strikes Against Military Compounds in Iran

This is Beirut, 2024-10-26 15:49 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Shortly before 6 a.m. on Saturday, the Israeli army announced the end of its nightly air strike against Iran. The attack lasted almost three hours and was carried out in three waves, during which Iranian military sites were targeted - 20 according to the New York Times. For the time being, it is not possible to comment on the impact or damage ...

At Least Ten Killed in Suspected Terror Attack on Iranian Police in Sistan-Baluchistan Region

This is Beirut, 2024-10-26 15:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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At least ten people were killed on Saturday in southeastern Iran in a “terrorist attack” in a tense area of Sistan-Baluchistan, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, local media reported. “Ten people were killed in a terrorist attack on police cars in Taftan county,” local news agencies Mehr and Tasnim reported, without specifying the ...

Anxious Iranians Fear Regional Escalation

This is Beirut, 2024-10-26 13:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Residents of Tehran awoke and went about their business as planned on Saturday after their sleep was troubled by Israeli strikes that triggered blasts that echoed across the city. The night skies had been criss-crossed by light trails from air defence weapons, but by mid-morning the capital had resumed its usual rhythm and buses wove through the ...

Israel army says strike that killed journalists in Lebanon 'under review'

This is Beirut, 2024-10-25 23:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Israeli army said Friday that a strike that killed three journalists in south Lebanon was "under review", maintaining that it had targeted Hezbollah militants. "Earlier today, following intelligence information, the IDF (army) struck a Hezbollah military structure in Hasbaya in southern Lebanon," the military said in a statement to AFP. "The ...

Joumblatt: 'It Is Time That Iran Acknowledges the Existence of a State in Lebanon'

This is Beirut, 2024-10-25 21:20 - Reading : less than a minute

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The former chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Joumblat, said on Friday that “it is time for the Islamic Republic of Iran to realize that there is a state present in Lebanon.” In an interview with Russia today, Joumblatt hoped that the Gaza scenario will not happen in Lebanon. He asked, “How can the war stop if Israel ...

France “Will Not Fail” Lebanon, Pledges Barrot

This is Beirut, 2024-10-23 12:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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France stands by Lebanon and “will not fail it,” assured French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Wednesday, on the eve of the international support conference being held in Paris. “The aim is first and foremost to reaffirm the need for a ceasefire, a diplomatic resolution, and an end to hostilities; to mobilize humanitarian aid from as ...

US Probing Leak of Classified Israeli Plans to Strike Iran

This is Beirut, 2024-10-22 19:21 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The FBI and the Pentagon are investigating a leak of classified United States intelligence on Israel's plans for a retaliatory strike against Iran. "The FBI is investigating the alleged leak of classified documents and working closely with our partners in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community," the FBI said in a statement on ...

Israeli Police Arrest 7 Palestinians over Assassination Plots

This is Beirut, 2024-10-22 18:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israeli police said Tuesday they had arrested seven Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem on suspicion of planning to assassinate an Israeli scientist and a city mayor on orders from Iran. "The Shin Bet and the Central Investigations Unit of the Jerusalem district police arrested seven residents from the Beit Safafa neighbourhood in Jerusalem," ...

Naim Qassem: Fugitive and Preacher of the Lebanese?

Roger Merheb, 2024-10-21 17:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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On Sunday, October 20, several media outlets reported that Hezbollah's second-in-command, Naim Qassem, has been in Tehran since October 5. The Emirati media platform Erem News quoted an anonymous Iranian source holding reliable information, stating that Qassem left Beirut on an Iranian plane on Saturday, October 5, along with Iranian Foreign ...

Israeli Police Detain Seven Suspected of Spying for Iran

This is Beirut, 2024-10-21 15:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israeli police on Monday said they had arrested a spy network of seven Israeli citizens who were gathering information on Israel's military bases and energy infrastructure for Iranian intelligence. The internal security agency and police "successfully dismantled a spy network involving seven Israeli citizens who were operating on behalf of ...

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