This is Beirut, 25/12 09:40 - Reading : less than a minute
For the first time since the Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire agreement took effect, Israeli warplanes struck deep into Lebanese territory, without causing casualties. The airstrike, which took place at around 2:30 AM on Wednesday, targeted a two-story house in the Taraya Plain in the Bekaa, west of Baalbeck. It was the first such attack since the ...
This is Beirut, 22/12 14:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas Palestine Gaza Israel war
Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes overnight and early Sunday killed at least 28 Palestinians, including at one family's home and at a school building the Israeli military said was used by Hamas. On the ground in Gaza, civil agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that at least 13 people were killed in an air strike on a house in ...
This is Beirut, 22/12 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel Palestine Pope Francis war Gaza
Pope Francis doubled down Sunday on his condemnation of Israel's strikes on the Gaza Strip, denouncing their "cruelty" for the second time in as many days. "And with pain I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. What cruelty," the pope said after his weekly Angelus ...
This is Beirut, 22/12 12:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia said Sunday it had captured two more villages in east Ukraine, the latest territorial gains for Moscow's advancing army. The defense ministry said on Telegram that its troops had "liberated" the villages of Lozova in the northeastern Kharkiv region and Krasnoye, called Sontsivka in Ukraine. The latter is close to the resource hub of ...
This is Beirut, 11/12 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tehran syria khamenei war Assad HTS
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that the weakening of the anti-Israel "resistance" after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria would not diminish Tehran's power. Some, "unaware of the meaning of resistance, imagine that when the resistance becomes weak, Islamic Iran will also become weak... Iran ...
This is Beirut, 11/12 09:45 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Syria's new transitional prime minister on Tuesday said it was time for "stability and calm" in the country, two days after longtime president Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels in a lightning offensive. The rebels appointed Mohammad al-Bashir as the transitional head of government to run the country until March 1, a statement ...
This is Beirut, 11/12 09:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Syria HTS war
For more than a decade, the United States has sought to keep out of Syria's political debacle, seeing no viable partner. Islamist rebels' toppling of strongman Bashar al-Assad has forced a change of tune and a debate over just what US interests are. Donald Trump, who returns to the White House in little more than a month, on the eve of Assad's ...
This is Beirut, 10/12 14:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syria must never be divided again and Turkey will act against anyone seeking to compromise its territory, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. "From now on, we cannot allow Syria to be divided again... Any attack on the freedom of the Syrian people, the stability of the new administration, and the integrity of its lands will find us ...
This is Beirut, 10/12 13:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Kyiv Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky russia war
Three people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in Russian attacks on southern and eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours, authorities said Tuesday. Tensions over the three-year war have escalated in recent weeks, with Moscow pummelling Ukrainian energy infrastructure and threatening to strike Kyiv with its new hypersonic missile. In the ...
This is Beirut, 10/12 12:38 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A war monitor said Tuesday that Israel had "destroyed the most important military sites in Syria" with a flurry of airstrikes since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad's government. Israel, which borders Syria, sent troops into a buffer zone on the east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights after Assad's fall, in what Foreign ...
This is Beirut, 09/12 15:49 - Reading : less than a minute
Damascus syria war Bashar al-Assad
After the sudden and unexpected fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syrians in Damascus express their relief and optimism for the future.
This is Beirut, 08/12 08:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Syria Iran war HTS Bashar al-Assad
AFP looks back at almost a quarter-century of rule by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since he was propelled to power following the death of his father Hafez in 2000. 2000: takes over from father On July 17, 2000, Assad becomes Syria's new head of state, after the death of his father, aged 69, who ruled Syria with an iron grip for 30 years. He ...