War in the Middle East

Putin Flaunts Nuclear Weapons on Victory Day
Putin Flaunts Nuclear Weapons on Victory Day

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned his nuclear forces were "always" on alert and added that Moscow would not tolerate any Western threats, during an address on the annual Victory Day parade. In a defiant speech on Red Square before thousands of soldiers dressed in ceremonial attire, Putin heaped praise on his army fighting in ...

Bou Habib Seeks Qatar's Help to Evacuate Lebanese Women From Rafah
Bou Habib Seeks Qatar's Help to Evacuate Lebanese Women From Rafah

Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, asked Qatar on Thursday for help in evacuating Lebanese women and their children held in Rafah since the outbreak of war in Gaza on October 7. At the end of a meeting with the Qatari ambassador to Lebanon, Sheikh Saoud ben Abdel Rahman ben Fayçal Al-Thani, Bou Habib explained that ...

Israel Strikes a Pro-Iran Iraqi Group in Syria
Israel Strikes a Pro-Iran Iraqi Group in Syria

Israeli strikes on Syria early Thursday targeted facilities belonging to Iraq's Al-Nujaba armed movement, a war monitor and the pro-Iran group said, with Damascus saying an unidentified building was attacked. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the outbreak of the civil war in its northern neighbor in 2011, mainly against ...

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Israel "Very Disappointed" by Biden's Threat to Withhold Weapons

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, expressed disappointment on Thursday regarding US President Joe Biden's threat to stop certain arms supplies to Israel if it invades the crowded Gaza city of Rafah. "This is a difficult and very disappointing statement to hear from a president to whom we have been grateful since the ...

South Lebanon: Over a Billion Euros Worth of Damage
South Lebanon: Over a Billion Euros Worth of Damage

The damage caused by Israeli bombardments in southern Lebanon, after seven months of fire exchange between Hezbollah and Israel, amounts to around $1.5 billion, the head of the Southern Council, Hashem Haidar, told AFP on Wednesday. According to Haidar, Israeli bombardments and raids have caused considerable damage to infrastructure, estimated at ...

War Diary: Day 215
War Diary: Day 215

From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for May 8th, 2024.

Washington Police Clear Pro-Palestinian University Encampment
Washington Police Clear Pro-Palestinian University Encampment

Police forcibly cleared an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at George Washington University in the United States capital on Wednesday, arresting dozens in the latest clash with students demonstrating over the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Republicans in Congress had pressured local authorities to act on the encampment, summoning Washington's ...

Netanyahu and CIA Chief Discuss 'Pausing' Rafah Assault
Netanyahu and CIA Chief Discuss 'Pausing' Rafah Assault

An Israeli official said visiting CIA Director Bill Burns and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Wednesday "the possibility" of suspending military operations in Gaza's Rafah in exchange for Hamas freeing hostages. Netanyahu and the US spy chief, who has been involved in mediation efforts in the Israel-Hamas war, met in Jerusalem as part ...

The Agreement Approved by Hamas: A Diplomatic Trap?
The Agreement Approved by Hamas: A Diplomatic Trap?

Could there possibly be two versions of a ceasefire proposal for Gaza? Could there have been a modified version unbeknownst to Israeli authorities? According to Israeli statements, the Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a ceasefire in the enclave, approved by Hamas on Monday, differs from the one previously endorsed by Tel Aviv. However, there appears ...

Southern Front: Five Killed in Israeli Raids on Khiam and Odaisseh
Southern Front: Five Killed in Israeli Raids on Khiam and Odaisseh

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon highly escalated Wednesday. Five people were killed in two Israeli raids. The first one targeted a three-storey house in Khiam, destroying it, and killing three members of the Al-Qods brigade, the military branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The second one targeted a structure in Odaisseh where two members ...

South Gaza Hospitals Face Critical Shortage of Fuel
South Gaza Hospitals Face Critical Shortage of Fuel

Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip have only three days of fuel left, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, due to closed border crossings. Despite international objections, Israel sent tanks into the overcrowded southern city of Rafah on Tuesday and seized the nearby crossing into Egypt which is the main conduit for aid ...

Gallant: 'There May Be a Heated Summer on Lebanon's Border'
Gallant: 'There May Be a Heated Summer on Lebanon's Border'

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Israeli soldiers deployed near the border with Lebanon that their mission there "is not completed" and that "there could be a heated summer" ahead. Gallant, who made the comments during a tour of north Israel, nonetheless reaffirmed that Tel Aviv does not want a war with Lebanon. In a conversation ...