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Aoun to Lammy: Only LAF and UNIFIL Will Operate in South Lebanon

This is Beirut, 19:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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President Joseph Aoun announced that the Lebanese Army (LAF) will soon have 10,000 troops deployed south of the Litani River as part of the government’s efforts to reinforce state authority and comply with United Nations Resolution 1701. The announcement was made on Saturday during a meeting with visiting British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at ...

Hezbollah’s Last Bargain

Johnny Kortbawi, 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Hezbollah continues to maneuver under the weight of periodic foreign pressure, and the discourse of its remaining leadership around disarmament is beginning to shift. At the outset of the conflict, the party maintained an unyielding stance, categorically rejecting any discussion of surrendering its weapons and insisting that the aggression it ...

Israeli Drone Strikes Kill One and Injure Six in Southern Lebanon

This is Beirut, 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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An Israeli drone strike on Saturday killed one person in the Saf al-Hawa area of Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon. In a separate incident, two people were seriously wounded in another Israeli drone attack targeting a car in the town of Shaqra, also in the Bint Jbeil district. The Ministry of Public Health said both victims were transferred to ...

Hamas Says Ready to Start Gaza Ceasefire Talks 'Immediately'

This is Beirut, 04/07 23:25 - Reading : less than a minute

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Hamas said Friday it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a proposal for a ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, after holding consultations with other Palestinian factions. "The movement is ready to engage immediately and seriously in a cycle of negotiations on the mechanism to put in place" the terms of a draft truce proposal received from ...

Adraee Confirms the Targeting of Qassem Salah al-Husseini in Khaldeh Strike

This is Beirut, 04/07 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced on Friday that the Israeli army had eliminated Qassem Salah al-Husseini, an operative working for Iran’s Quds Force, in a drone attack on his vehicle in Khaldeh.   Thursday’s strike also injured three other individuals. Adraee wrote on his X account, “Yesterday, the Israeli ...

Syria Ready to Work With US to Return to 1974 Disengagement Deal With Israel

This is Beirut, 04/07 17:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Syria said on Friday it was willing to cooperate with the United States to reimplement the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel, which created a UN-patrolled buffer zone separating the two countries' forces. In a statement after a phone call with his US counterpart Marco Rubio, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani expressed Damascus's ...

US Plan on the Table: Disarm Hezbollah and Revive Lebanon’s Economy

This is Beirut, 04/07 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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In an interview with The New York Times, Donald Trump’s special envoy for Syria and US ambassador to Turkey, Thomas J. Barrack Jr., revealed that he had recently presented a proposal to the Lebanese government aimed at disarming Hezbollah and reviving the country’s economy. The plan, delivered in June and attributed to Secretary of State ...

Hamas says Holding Consultations on Gaza Truce Proposal

This is Beirut, 04/07 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Hamas said Friday it was holding consultations with other Palestinian movements on a truce proposal in the war with Israel, in a possible sign that it was preparing for negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza. The statement came ahead of a visit on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, where President Donald Trump is ...

Lebanon Risks Missing the Train

Pierre Nahas, 04/07 12:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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There was a time when the idea of Syria normalizing ties with Israel would’ve been laughed out of every Arab capital. Not anymore. Damascus is reportedly engaged in serious discussions to join the Abraham Accords. Once-controversial deals, the Accords now seem like the Middle East’s new baseline. That Syria, of all countries, is entertaining ...

Reuters: Hezbollah Weighs Partial Disarmament Amid Mounting Pressures

This is Beirut, 04/07 11:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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According to a detailed Reuters report published on July 4, Hezbollah has begun internal discussions over potentially scaling back its military role without fully disarming, a significant strategic reconsideration in the aftermath of its devastating war with Israel. Citing three sources familiar with the ongoing, unfinalized deliberations, the ...

Israeli Attacks Escalate in Southern Lebanon, Factory Destroyed in Mays al-Jabal

This is Beirut, 04/07 11:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A wave of Israeli attacks struck southern Lebanon on Friday, beginning with a dawn incursion into the village of Mays al-Jabal, in the Bint Jbeil district. An Israeli patrol crossed the border and destroyed a textile factory that had recently been refurbished after a previous strike. The facility had just resumed operations. Also on Friday ...

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