Middle East

On the Streets of Tehran: Teenagers Armed With Machine Guns

This is Beirut 14:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In the security crackdown ordered by Iranian authorities since the start of the war, an unsettling new sight on the streets of Tehran has put residents on edge: teenagers armed with machine guns. During the first weeks of the war against the United States and Israel, checkpoints sprang up around the capital, often comprising police or military ...

Erdogan Warns of Regional Spillover Risk as War Enters Second Month

This is Beirut 14:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned Wednesday that the ongoing war involving Iran, the United States, and Israel risks expanding into a broader regional conflict, as tensions continue to escalate across multiple fronts. “We are facing the danger of the war spreading and widening,” Erdoğan said during a parliamentary ...

U.S.-Israeli Strikes Hit Steel Complexes in Central, Southwest Iran

This is Beirut 13:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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U.S.-Israeli strikes have hit steel complexes in central and southwest Iran, causing damage to production units, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. "Initial assessments indicate massive attacks, with significant damage and destruction to production units" at the complex of the Mobarakeh Steel Company, one of Iran's biggest, in the central ...

Yemen Claims Joint Strike with Iran and Hezbollah on Southern Israel

This is Beirut 11:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Yemen’s armed forces on Wednesday announced a new round of attacks targeting what they described as “sensitive Israeli positions” in southern Israel in coordination with Iran and Hezbollah. The operation, described as the third phase of an ongoing military campaign, involved the launch of ballistic missiles, according to a ...

Stocks Rally, Oil Dives as Trump Says War to End 'Very Soon'

This is Beirut 11:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Equities rallied and oil tumbled Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said the Middle East war would be over in up to three weeks and his Iranian counterpart said Tehran had "the necessary will" to bring it to an end. The remarks came as the economic impact of the conflict worsens, with average US gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon for the ...

Rubio Signals War Endgame as U.S. Pressure Mounts on Weakened Iran

This is Beirut 10:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The United States is increasingly signaling that the war with Iran is entering its final phase, even as military operations and diplomatic maneuvering continue in parallel. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington now sees “the finish line” in a conflict that has entered its fifth week, describing an Iranian state that is, ...

Iran FM Says Not Responded to U.S. Plan, 'No Negotiations'

This is Beirut 10:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said there were no negotiations with the United States and that Tehran had not responded to a reported 15-point proposal from Washington to end the war. "We receive messages from the American side, some direct and some through our friends in the region, and whenever necessary we respond to these messages," ...

Iranian Missile Barrage Hits Israel, Reports Indicate Use of Cluster Munitions

This is Beirut 09:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel reported renewed missile launches from Iran on Wednesday targeting central and northern areas, causing multiple casualties and damage across several sites, with reports indicating the possible use of cluster munitions that pose long-term risks to civilians. The military stated it had “identified missiles launched from Iran toward the ...

Lebanon Says Israeli Strikes on Beirut Area Kill 7

This is Beirut 07:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Lebanese health ministry said Wednesday that Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs and a nearby town killed at least seven people, as Israel's military said it had targeted senior Hezbollah members. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 when Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel to ...

American Journalist Abducted in Baghdad as Iraqi Forces Launch Search Operation

This is Beirut 31/03 20:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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An American freelance journalist, Shelley Kittleson, was abducted by unidentified individuals in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry, prompting an urgent security operation to locate her and apprehend those responsible. The ministry said authorities acted swiftly on what it described as “precise ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of Intensified Strikes Against Iran

This is Beirut 31/03 17:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held a press conference Tuesday at the Pentagon alongside Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, providing an update on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran. Hegseth described the campaign as a “laser-focused, maximum authority mission” employing overwhelming ...

Op-edFrom Baghdad to Beirut: Tehran’s Strategy to Set the Region Aflame

Seth J. Frantzman 31/03 15:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In December 2017, Hezbollah hosted Iraqi militia leader Qais al-Khazali on a tour of Lebanon’s border with Israel. At the time, Israel was careful not to provoke Hezbollah, and Khazali seemed confident that he could threaten the Jewish state from the frontier. Nearly a decade later, Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have become ...