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Trump Urges Other Nations' Warships to Protect Gulf Oil Route

This is Beirut, 09:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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U.S. President Donald Trump called for other nations' warships to help safeguard world oil supplies passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a route which is virtually blocked as of Sunday by the threat of Iranian attacks. Despite sustaining heavy bombardments since U.S.-Israeli forces launched a war against Iran on February 28, Tehran has defied ...

Iran Arrests 20 Over Suspected Links to Israel: Media

This is Beirut, 09:25 - Reading : less than a minute

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Iranian authorities have arrested at least 20 people in the country's northwest on suspicion of cooperating with Israel, local media reported on Sunday, more than two weeks into the Middle East war. The arrests took place during raids on networks linked to Israel in the West Azerbaijan province, the Fars news agency said, quoting provincial ...

U.S. Embassy Attacked in Baghdad, Strikes Hit Iran-Backed Fighters

This is Beirut, 14/03 20:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The US embassy in Baghdad was hit by an attack on Saturday following strikes that killed three members of a powerful Iran-backed group in the capital, security sources said. Iraq, long a proxy battleground between the United States and Iran, was quickly dragged into the Middle East war triggered by US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February ...

Displacement Fuels Fears of Hezbollah Infiltration Across Lebanon

Ian Stettner, 14/03 16:35 - Reading : 8 minute(s)

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From Beirut’s suburbs to the Beqaa valley, to Druze strongholds in the eastern Chouf and Aley, and north across the Christian belt from the mountain resorts to the coast, fears are rising that Hezbollah operatives may be among the growing numbers of displaced Shia families. Israeli assassination strikes in historically-neutral parts of ...

Israel Strikes North Beirut Suburb, South Lebanon

This is Beirut, 14/03 10:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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An Israeli strike hit an apartment building in Al-Nabaa, a northern Beirut suburb that had been targeted a day earlier, Lebanese state media said on Saturday, also reporting strikes in the country's south. An overnight Israeli strike killed a dozen medical staff at a clinic in south Lebanon, health authorities said earlier Saturday, after ...

Hamas Urges Iran to Stop 'Targeting Neighbouring' Countries

This is Beirut, 14/03 08:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Saturday called on Iran to refrain from targeting neighbouring countries, while affirming Tehran's right to defend itself against Israel and the United States. "While affirming the right of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond to this aggression by all available means in accordance with ...

Israeli Strike on South Lebanon Health Centre Kills 12 Medical Staff

This is Beirut, 14/03 05:55 - Reading : less than a minute

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An Israeli strike on a primary healthcare centre in southern Lebanon killed at least 12 medical personnel, the Lebanese health ministry said Saturday as the war between Israel and Hezbollah rages on. In a statement, the ministry said it "mourns the healthcare workers in Burj Qalawiya who were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the ...

Exclusive: Senior U.S. Official Says Lebanon “Must Take Stronger Action”

This is Beirut, 13/03 22:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A top U.S. official told This Is Beirut that Lebanon’s government had not done enough to combat Hezbollah and stabilize the ongoing crisis. “Despite years of American assistance and support to the Lebanese government and the Lebanese Armed Forces,” the official said, “we believe Lebanon’s authorities must take stronger action to assert ...

Naim Qassem Prepares for "Long Battle Ahead"

This is Beirut, 13/03 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem delivered a televised address tonight, his second since the militant group initiated the round of fighting on March 2. He spoke as raids continued throughout Beirut’s southern suburbs, on the occasion of International Quds Day, an annual anti-Israel event founded by Ayatollah Khomeini. Qassem ...

Lebanon Summons Iran’s Chargé d’Affaires

This is Beirut, 13/03 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Beirut, Toufic Samadi, on Friday following statements by the Iranian diplomatic mission in Lebanon and Tehran’s envoy to the United Nations regarding a recent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital. Samadi was received Friday by the ministry’s ...

Israel Cuts Bridge Over Litani River

This is Beirut, 13/03 12:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel expanded its strikes in Lebanon on Friday, targeting multiple areas including a bridge over the Litani river that it said Hezbollah had been using as a passageway for its fighters. The raids came after Israel threatened to also carry out a ground operation to disarm Hezbollah if the Lebanese government does not do so. The Lebanon-based ...

Turkey Confirms Third Ballistic Missile From Iran Shot Down

This is Beirut, 13/03 12:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Turkey's defence ministry on Friday said a ballistic missile from Iran had been shot down in Turkish airspace by NATO forces in the third such incident of the Middle East war. "A ballistic munition launched from Iran and entering Turkish airspace was neutralised by NATO air and missile defence assets deployed in the eastern ...

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