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Russia Asks Israel to Refrain from Striking Near Base in Syria

This is Beirut, 2024-11-13 09:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Damascus United States Vladimir Putin

Russia has asked Israel to refrain from conducting airstrikes near its airbase in Syria during Israel's conflict with Hezbollah, as it did in October, a senior Russian official said on Wednesday. Syrian state media reported in mid-October that Israel carried out an airstrike on the port city of Latakia, a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar ...

Lebanon Balancing on The Edge of Truce and War

Natasha Metni Torbey, 2024-11-12 10:30 - Reading : 8 minute(s)

Amos Hochstein Damascus Donald Trump Russia

Caught in the crossfire between Israel and Iran—through its proxies Hamas and Hezbollah—Lebanon is plunging deeper into uncertainty. Under the looming threat of military escalation, the country, now stripped of its ability to influence its own fate, has become the focal point of numerous international negotiations, which remain ambiguous and ...

Divine Justice and the Principles of Retribution

Johnny Kortbawi, 2024-11-12 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Damascus Rafic Hariri Assassination

Two key figures orchestrated the assassination of the martyred former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, although the International Tribunal for Lebanon had initially accused four suspects and later added a fifth. Mustafa Badreddine and Salim Ayyash were the main perpetrators. The others were primarily accused of fabricating the Abu Adas video and ...

Israeli Strike on Homs Cuts Key Syrian Motorway

This is Beirut, 2024-11-11 14:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Syrian state media reported an Israeli strike on Monday on a village near the city of Homs, a day after a deadly strike on a building in the Damascus area. “An Israeli aggression” targeted the “surroundings of the Shinshar region south of Homs,” state news agency SANA said, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike ...

Israeli Strike in Damascus Kills Hezbollah Official Overseeing Golan Operations

This is Beirut, 2024-11-10 19:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Damascus Sayyida Zainab Area Syria

An Israeli strike on Sunday south of Damascus targeted a Hezbollah apartment, killing nine people including Ali Moussa Daqdouq, a Hezbollah official responsible for the group’s operations in the Golan Heights. Several Syrian media outlet, reported a toll of nine dead and twenty wounded in the strike.  Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the ...

Israeli Strikes Target Hezbollah Intelligence HQ in Syria

This is Beirut, 2024-11-04 21:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Syria Damascus Sayyeda Zaynab Area IRGC

Israel's military said its air force struck the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah's Syrian branch in a strike on Damascus on Monday, an attack a war monitor said killed two people. It was a rare acknowledgement by Israeli authorities of an attack against Syria. The military has intensified its strikes on targets in Syria since ...

Hezbollah War Media Reveals Imad 5

This is Beirut, 2024-11-03 18:35 - Reading : less than a minute

Damascus Hassan Nasrallah

As part of its propaganda campaign, Hezbollah released a second video on Sunday, unveiling a new underground missile-hiding infrastructure called “Imad 5,” after its commander, Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in Syria in February 2008. In August 2024, the Hezb had published a first video showcasing its Imad 4 infrastructure. The ...

Rising Casualties Amid New Wave of Israeli Raids

This is Beirut, 2024-10-31 18:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Baalbeck Damascus Lebanese Army

Amid concentrated shelling on southern Lebanese towns, the district of Baalbeck and the western Beqaa, violence continued to rise between Israel and Hezbollah on Thursday, coupled with an increasing death toll. The Israeli Channel 12 had revealed that the Israeli army is preparing to expand its ground operations in Lebanon, “because ...

Israel Announces End of Strikes Against Military Compounds in Iran

This is Beirut, 2024-10-26 15:49 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Damascus Hassan Nasrallah Tehran Iran

Shortly before 6 a.m. on Saturday, the Israeli army announced the end of its nightly air strike against Iran. The attack lasted almost three hours and was carried out in three waves, during which Iranian military sites were targeted - 20 according to the New York Times. For the time being, it is not possible to comment on the impact or damage ...

The Maronite Church, Prisoner of Its Own Memory

Fady Noun, 2024-10-26 13:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Damascus Middle East christians druze canonization

For some Lebanese Christians, the 1860 massacres remain an open wound — a persistent thorn in their collective memory. The painful recollection of this brutality resurfaced during the canonization of the Massabki brothers, who were martyred in Damascus on the night of July 9-10, 1860. How did it come to pass that over 20,000 Christians — half ...

War Monitor Says Two Dead in Israeli Strikes on Syria

This is Beirut, 2024-10-24 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A Syria war monitor said Israeli strikes in the capital and in central Homs province on Thursday killed two people, including a soldier. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes in Damascus's Kafr Sousa district targeted "the courtyard of a government building near a military fuel station". "One person whose identity is unknown" ...

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