par This Is Beirut, 20/04 23:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Iran and Israel appeared on Saturday to be moving away from escalation, after a week marked by the sharpest tensions in the Middle East since the start of the Gaza war. Iran has dismissed as akin to child's play Israel's reported retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, as both sides appeared on Saturday to step back from the wider ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/04 22:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The US House of Representatives approved a major aid package on Saturday for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as a possible ban on the social network TikTok. Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives quickly passed legislation on Saturday to provide aid to Ukraine and Israel and bolster Taiwan, while also threatening a ban on TikTok if it ...
par Hala Abdallah, 20/04 20:28 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for April 20th, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 20/04 18:21 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron told Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati that France would do "everything in its power" to stop violence from spiraling between Lebanon and Israel, his office said in a statement issued late Friday night. Macron told Mikati in Paris that he would "continue to act for Lebanon's stability" to protect it ...
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par This Is Beirut, 20/04 16:26 - Reading : less than a minute
The Israeli army said Saturday that its security forces killed 10 militants in an ongoing raid around Nur Shams, a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. "Security forces eliminated 10 terrorists during encounters" over more than 40 hours, the army said in a statement. The army said eight soldiers and a police officer had been ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/04 14:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's foreign minister has dismissed as akin to child's play the reported Israeli retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, and said Tehran would not respond unless Iranian "interests" were targeted. On Friday, Iran's state media reported explosions were heard after, according to an official, small drones were successfully shot ...
par Michel Touma, 20/04 13:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The prevailing impression from the unfolding “vicissitudes” in Isfahan at the break of dawn on Friday was that Israelis and Iranians were almost ashamed of engaging in direct, face-to-face warfare… In their quest for moral justification, they deploy startling theatrics or unusual military-media acrobatics. Their objective: to minimize ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/04 13:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
After a cautious calm in the early morning hours of Saturday, a house in Kfar Kila was targeted and one person was wounded, according to preliminary information. Moreover, Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace again, targeting the town of Aita al-Shaab. Simultaneously, alarm sirens sounded in several settlements in the Upper Galilee after ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/04 10:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
One person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion at an Iraqi military base housing Hashed al-Shaabi, a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, officials said Saturday. The explosion hit the Kalsu military base in Babylon province south of Baghdad, where Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, or Hashed al-Shaabi, is stationed. It ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/04 23:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Istanbul Friday evening for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the death toll in Gaza passed 34,000. A statement from Hamas Friday said Erdogan and Haniyeh would discuss the conflict in Gaza, adding that the head of the group's political bureau was ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/04 23:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Global leaders urged for peace on Friday following reports of Israeli reprisals against Iran, exacerbating the ongoing tension stemming from the Gaza conflict. World leaders appealed for calm on Friday after reported Israeli retaliation against Iran added to months of tense spillover from the war in Gaza, with Iranian state media reporting ...
