This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 11:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Eight migrants died early Sunday when their overcrowded vessel capsized while trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French authorities said, less than two weeks after the deadliest such disaster this year. The French and British governments have sought for years to stop the flow of migrants, who pay smugglers thousands of euros per ...
2024-09-15 11:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Persecution of bereaved relatives. Impunity for perpetrators. Rampant executions and infighting among the opposition. Two years after the eruption of a protest movement that opponents of Iran's clerical authorities hoped would mark a turning point in the Islamic Republic's 45-year history, a bleak picture now confronts them. Activists and exiles ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 11:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
If they had tried to do this a few years ago, the group of Iraqi women enjoying a night out in Mosul would probably have risked severe punishment. The northern city was under the harsh rule of the Islamic State (IS) group until the jihadists were ousted from their last major Iraqi bastion in 2017. Seven years later, Mosul's streets truly come ...
2024-09-15 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Neither Israel nor Syria has confirmed nor denied Western reports of a landing operation carried out by Israeli special forces in Masyaf, Syria. The operation allegedly targeted the Scientific Studies and Research Center facilities during the night of September 8-9. However, residents in the Tartous region reported hearing helicopters flying ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Moscow and Kyiv swapped 103 prisoners of war each on Saturday in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates, a rare moment of coordination between the two warring sides as Russia pushes ahead in east Ukraine. The Russians released in the swap were captured during Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region, Moscow said, while some of the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 17:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Mourners gathered in southwest Turkey on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist, who was shot dead while protesting Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The killing last week of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has sparked international condemnation and infuriated Turkey, further escalating tensions over the war in Gaza that began with ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 16:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won a second term with 84.3% of the vote in last week's election, as final results announced Saturday showed, down from an initial count contested by rivals. The preliminary results issued by the North African country's electoral authority, ANIE, on Sunday gave Tebboune nearly 95% support, prompting ...
2024-09-14 15:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Saturday, Iran blasted a new research satellite into orbit, state media said. "The Chamran-1 research satellite was successfully launched and put into orbit by the Ghaem-100 carrier," state television claimed. The satellite, which weighs around 60 kilograms (132 pounds), is designed to test hardware and software systems for orbital maneuver ...
2024-09-14 10:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Four Islamic State group leaders were killed in a joint US-Iraqi raid in western Iraq last month, including the head of the jihadist group's operations in the country, the US military said Friday. "This operation targeted ISIS leaders and served to disrupt and degrade ISIS' ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against Iraqi civilians," ...
2024-09-13 18:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ministers from Muslim and European countries along with the European Union's foreign affairs chief gathered Friday in Madrid to discuss how to advance a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Together, we want to identify the concrete actions that will enable us to make progress towards this objective," Spanish Prime Minister ...
Mario Chartouni 2024-09-13 17:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and main opposition party in Jordan, has won the September 2024 legislative elections by a landslide. However, this groundbreaking victory far from undermines the state’s control over the party or changes the fact that the Jordanian Parliament has a limited role ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-13 13:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US State Department said on Thursday it was unconditionally releasing $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt, at a time when Cairo and Washington have been working closely on a Gaza ceasefire deal. Last year, the United States released part of this annual aid conditional on progress being made on respecting human rights in Egypt, a country ...