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Iran's military vowed on Wednesday to launch strikes against U.S. and Israeli economic targets in the region, including banks, after overnight attacks reportedly hit an Iranian bank. "The enemy has given us free rein to target economic centers and banks belonging to the United States and the Zionist regime," said the military's central ...
This is Beirut, 10/03 18:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called for de-escalation in the Iran conflict during a phone call on Tuesday with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian, the Kremlin said. "The President of Russia reaffirmed his principled position in favour of a speedy de-escalation of the conflict and for it to be resolved through political means," the ...
This is Beirut, 10/03 09:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Four fighters from the Tehran-backed Kataeb Imam Ali group were killed on Tuesday in air strikes blamed on the US in northern Iraq, the armed faction announced. The group said its fighters were killed in "American aggression" against their position in the Debs district of Kirkuk province. The bombing targeted a position that belongs to ...
This is Beirut, 09/03 22:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani welcomed on Monday the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's new supreme leader after his predecessor and father was killed in US and Israeli strikes. "We express our confidence in the ability of the new leadership in the Islamic Republic of Iran to manage this critical stage," ...
This is Beirut, 09/03 18:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
NATO said it shot down a second ballistic missile fired from Iran in Turkish airspace on Monday, prompting a stern warning from Turkey to Tehran not to take "provocative steps". It was the second such incident in the skies over NATO member Turkey in five days, leading the alliance to stress its readiness "to defend all allies ...
This is Beirut, 08/03 23:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was elected Iran’s Supreme Leader on Sunday, succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed last Saturday at 86 after more than three decades as the country’s head of state. The elder Khamenei had denied in 2024 that such a dynastic succession could take place, given that the Iranian Revolution ended centuries of ...
This is Beirut, 08/03 17:35 - Reading : less than a minute
Seven days into the U.S.–Israeli offensive against Iran, the conflict continues to escalate. Airstrikes hit Tehran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and senior military officials, and targeted key sites including the Natanz nuclear facility and military bases in Isfahan, Qom, and Kermanshah. This video recaps the first week of the ...
This is Beirut, 08/03 14:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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More than 100 Iranians, including some diplomats, were evacuated from Beirut overnight on a Russian plane, a Lebanese official told AFP on Sunday. The evacuation came after Lebanon on Thursday banned any activity by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps -- a main backer of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah -- and imposed a visa ...
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Hezbollah’s renewed conflict with Israel has exposed internal tensions within the group that have been simmering since Tel Aviv’s assassination of its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and other senior figures. The loss of these leaders has left the group grappling with what analysts describe as a “decapitation” of its leadership ...
This Is Beirut, 08/03 09:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The IDF targeted Iranian commanders in the Ramada hotel in Beirut’s central Rauoche neighborhood early on Sunday, killing four and injuring ten others. The attack, described by the Israeli Army as a targeting “Quds Force's Lebanon Corps,” represents the first Israeli strike to hit the heart of Beirut since hostilities ...
This is Beirut, 07/03 22:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Air defence systems intercepted rockets fired at the US embassy in Baghdad, security sources told AFP. It is the first such attack on the embassy in Baghdad since the start of the war in the Middle East, triggered by a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran, into which Iraq has been dragged. Loud bangs were heard on Saturday night in Baghdad, AFP ...
This is Beirut, 07/03 21:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Turkey's foreign minister warned against efforts to stir up a civil war inside Iran, while cautioning Tehran after NATO intercepted a Turkey-bound ballistic missile launched from Iran earlier in the week. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said any effort to stir up a civil war inside Iran in a bid to bring about regime change would be a ...