This is Beirut 2025-06-21 19:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced Saturday that a planned Iranian attack on Israeli citizens in Cyprus had been thwarted with the help of Cypriot authorities. “The Revolutionary Guards (the ideological army of the Islamic Republic) attempted to carry out an attack on Israeli citizens in Cyprus,” Sa’ar wrote on X, without ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 19:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that France and its European partners would ramp up talks with Iran following more than a week of hostilities between the Islamic Republic and Israel. "I am convinced that there is a way out of war and to avoid even greater dangers," Macron said on X after holding phone talks with ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Tehran
A former bodyguard for Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike in Iran, according to an official from the Tehran-backed militant group. Hussein Khalil, commonly known as Abu Ali and nicknamed Nasrallah’s “shield”, was killed in Iran near the Iraqi border, the ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 18:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Yemen Houthi Movement Iran United States Red Sea
Yemen's Houthis threatened on Saturday to attack US vessels in the Red Sea, despite a recent truce, should Washington get involved in Israel's bombardment campaign against Iran. Israel launched unprecedented attacks on Iranian nuclear and military sites last week, drawing retaliation from Tehran. The United States, a key Israeli ally, ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pakistan Donald Trump Nobel Peace Prize
Pakistan announced on Saturday that it would recommend U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing his role in resolving the recent conflict between India and Pakistan – an accolade he has openly said he craves, Reuters reports. Some Pakistani analysts believe the move could be a calculated effort to influence ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 17:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran Isfahan Iran Nuclear Program
The UN nuclear agency confirmed on Saturday that a centrifuge manufacturing workshop at Iran's Isfahan nuclear site had been hit in the latest strike amid Israel's bombing campaign. "A centrifuge manufacturing workshop has been hit in Esfahan, the third such facility that has been targeted in Israel's attacks on Iran's ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 17:31 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Four fighters from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in an Israeli attack on a training center in northwest Iran, the ISNA news agency reported. "Four people have died as martyrs and three others were wounded in an Israeli attack against a training camp of the Revolutionary Guards in Tabriz," ISNA reported. The ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 15:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel intensifies its attacks with fresh strikes on Iranian nuclear and military targets, killing key commanders, as a drone hits a residential area in northern Israel. Day 9: #Israel #Strikes Deep Into #Iran as Drone Hits Northern IsraelIsrael intensifies its attacks with fresh strikes on Iran’s #nuclear and military targets, killing key ...
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Syria Drug Trafficking Wassim al-Assad Bashar al-Assad
Syrian authorities arrested Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, the interior ministry said Saturday, in one of the most high-profile arrests since the former president's ouster. Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia in December with only a handful of confidants, abandoning senior officials and security officers, some of whom ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has nominated three clerics as potential successors while hiding in a bunker as he faces threats of assassination by Israel in the ongoing war, The New York Times reports. Khamenei has also begun filling the posts of senior commanders eliminated by Israel, according to the report, which cites three Iranian ...
Ali A. Hamadé 2025-06-21 14:10 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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For days now, the Middle East has been gripped by a geopolitical crisis of extraordinary intensity. The open conflict between Israel and Iran – ignited by a sweeping Israeli military offensive – shows no sign of abating and is already reshaping the region’s balance of power. Not only has the balance tipped decisively toward Israel, but ...
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Nations UNHCR Syria Refugees
UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi has urged more international support for Syria to speed up reconstruction and enable further refugee returns after some 14 years of civil war. "I am here also to really make an appeal to the international community to provide more help, more assistance to the Syrian government in this big challenge of ...