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Amid Hezbollah’s War, Lebanon Faces a Test of Sovereignty

Amal Chmouny, 13:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Hezbollah plunging Lebanon into yet another war with Israel came as no surprise. For years, Lebanese officials and international partners have warned that Hezbollah’s unchecked militarization in the south was an invitation to catastrophe. Those warnings have become reality as Israel deepens its ground invasion to neutralize what it sees as an ...

Iran Launches Fresh Attacks on Gulf and Israel Minutes After Ceasefire Announcement

This is Beirut, 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran continued launching missile and drone attacks on Gulf states and Israel in the immediate aftermath of a ceasefire announcement with the United States on Wednesday, which was announced to take effect immediately. The continued strikes have immediately cast doubt on the viability of the agreement, with active hostilities persisting across a ...

Foreign Fighters Alongside Hezbollah: What Do We Know?

Samar El-Kadi, 11:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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An Israeli drone strike near Naqoura in southern Lebanon last week raised fresh questions about whether foreign combatants, apart from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), are fighting alongside Hezbollah. While Hezbollah announced that the fighters killed in the airstrike were from southern Lebanon, the Israeli military identified ...

Israel Backs U.S.-Iran Temporary Ceasefire, Says 'Does Not Include Lebanon'

This is Beirut, 08:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel said Wednesday that a US-Iran ceasefire deal "does not include Lebanon", which was drawn into the war after Iran-backed group Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel. "The two-weeks ceasefire does not include Lebanon," the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. The statement contradicted an ...

Netanyahu Says Israel Struck Railways, Bridges in Iran

This is Beirut, 07/04 17:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel struck on Tuesday railways and bridges in Iran "used by the Revolutionary Guards", after Iranian officials reported damage to at least two bridges and railway infrastructure. "We are crushing the terror regime in Iran... with even greater vigour and with increasing force," ...

Israel Halts Strike on Lebanon-Syria Crossing After U.S. Intervention

This is Beirut, 07/04 14:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israel paused plans to strike a key Lebanon-Syria border crossing after both countries urged the U.S. to keep the route open, a Lebanese source told Reuters Tuesday. The Israeli military had warned on April 4 that it would target the Masnaa crossing, the main land border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, “in the near future,” alleging that ...

New Strikes in Tehran as Deadline Looms for Trump Threat to Infrastructure

This is Beirut, 07/04 13:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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New strikes rocked Tehran on Tuesday, with Iran showing no sign of backing down as a U.S. deadline loomed for it to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or have its civilian infrastructure "decimated," according to President Donald Trump. The U.S. leader has warned that unless Tehran allows free passage through the strategic oil chokepoint by midnight ...

Israel Military Says Completed Forward Deployment in South Lebanon

This is Beirut, 07/04 12:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had completed the deployment of ground troops along a "defense line" in southern Lebanon, where it is fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah. The military has not given any geographical details on the furthest point to which its soldiers have advanced into Lebanese territory. Israeli media reported that the ...

How the Iran War Can Help Reorient Shia Identity

Marwan El Amine, 07/04 12:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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As the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran nears the limits of its original target bank, the contours of a new phase are beginning to emerge, one defined by the search for a political exit from the war. Discussions are no longer confined to closed-door deliberations but are now unfolding in public. Fundamental questions are emerging about ...

Hezbollah Emerged from Iran’s Revolution, Not “Resistance” to Israel

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 07/04 11:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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A false claim, now common in Western media and academia, portrays Hezbollah as having emerged in response to Israel’s 1982 invasion and subsequent occupation of Lebanon. In reality, Hezbollah arose in the wake of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution as part of an effort to establish an Islamic state in a Lebanon fractured by warring militias. Since ...

Gaza Hospital Says Clashes, Israeli Strikes Kill 10

This is Beirut, 06/04 23:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A Gaza hospital said clashes and Israeli airstrikes killed at least 10 people on Monday near a school sheltering displaced people in the centre of the Palestinian territory. The incident is the latest to shake a fragile US-backed ceasefire that has been in place since October 10 and has largely halted the war between Israel and Hamas. "At ...

Decapitation of Iranian Military and Intelligence Leadership: Timeline and Structure

Ralph Atrach, 06/04 23:40 - Reading : 8 minute(s)

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Since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran on February 28, a series of coordinated strikes by both countries has dramatically reshaped Iran’s military and political command structure. The U.S.-led Operation Epic Fury and Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion have systematically targeted senior Iranian officials, top advisors, ...

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