This is Beirut 01/03 20:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The UAE said on Sunday it was closing its embassy in Tehran and recalling the Emirati ambassador after Iran's retaliatory missile and drone campaign in the Gulf killed four people and wounded dozens more. The move marks the strongest condemnation yet by a Gulf state since Tehran began targeting the region with a barrage of strikes after the ...
This is Beirut 01/03 20:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that American forces had destroyed and sunk nine Iranian naval vessels in what he described as a major escalation in ongoing military operations against Iran. In a post published on his official social media account, Trump said: “I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk 9 ...
This is Beirut 01/03 19:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hundreds of supporters of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah movement gathered on Sunday in Beirut’s southern suburbs and other regions to mourn the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and express solidarity with the Islamic Republic amid a rapidly intensifying regional conflict. The rallies, held in the Ashoura ...
This is Beirut 01/03 18:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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One day after U.S.-Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and escalated tensions across the Middle East, former President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran’s new leadership wants to negotiate and that he plans to engage with them. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to ...
This is Beirut 01/03 18:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to intensify air strikes on Tehran in the coming days, declaring that Israel’s military is deploying its “full strength as never before” in the escalating campaign against Iran. In a video statement released after renewed Israeli strikes on the Iranian capital, Netanyahu said he had ...
This is Beirut 01/03 17:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Lebanese President General Joseph Aoun and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed in a phone call on March 1 to postpone the international conference in Paris, originally scheduled for March 5, which aimed to support Lebanon’s security forces and advance disarmament of non-state armed groups. The leaders cited the absence of appropriate ...
This is Beirut 01/03 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five others are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury, CENTCOM announced Sunday. Several additional personnel sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations are ongoing, and U.S. forces continue their ...
This is Beirut 01/03 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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DP World, a Dubai-based global port operator and logistics company, and one of the largest port operators in the world, has temporarily suspended operations at Jebel Ali Port in Dubai, the largest container port in the Middle East, as regional security tensions intensify following missile exchanges across the Gulf. The suspension, described as a ...
This is Beirut 01/03 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
At least nine people were killed and more than 20 injured after an Iranian missile struck the city of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on Sunday, in what Israeli authorities described as one of the deadliest single impacts since the war began. Emergency services confirmed that 23 people were wounded, several of them in critical condition, while ...
This is Beirut 01/03 15:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gulf countries will convene Sunday evening to discuss a unified response to Iran's attacks, two Gulf diplomats said, as Tehran presses on with a second day of strikes after US and Israeli attacks killed its supreme leader. "It will be an online meeting of GCC foreign ministers due to the airport closures," a Gulf diplomat told AFP, ...
This is Beirut 01/03 14:10 - Reading : less than a minute
Iranian state television said Sunday that an oil tanker was sinking after it was struck while attempting to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The incident took place as Iran exchanged strikes with the United States and Israel, who launched an attack Saturday that killed the Islamic republic's supreme leader. "The fate of the ...
This is Beirut 01/03 14:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The regional confrontation widened dramatically on Sunday as maritime incidents in the Gulf, renewed missile activity, airspace closures, and fresh security alerts pushed tensions to one of their most volatile points since the start of the U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran. Maritime Flashpoint in the Strait of Hormuz The Secretary-General of the ...