This is Beirut 2025-03-21 21:55 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine Gaza
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had eliminated Osama Tabash, the movement's head of military intelligence. According to the army, Tabash was also head of Hamas's surveillance and targeting unit, and was said to have planned the October 7 attack.
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 21:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Huthi media in Yemen reported strikes on the Iran-backed rebels' homeland of Saada on Friday, blaming "American aggression". The rebels' Al-Masirah TV cited their correspondent in Saada, in Yemen's north, for their latest claim of strikes since the United States on Saturday said it carried out air strikes that killed several Huthi leaders, after ...
Moncef Ait-Kaci 2025-03-21 21:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Sudanese Army has announced it has retaken the presidential palace in Khartoum. But behind this advance lies a devastating war, ongoing since 2023, between two former allies turned enemies. Here's an explanation. The term "two former allies" refers to the roles played by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (Army) and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey Istanbul Protests Istanbul Bar Association
The Istanbul Bar Association's executive board was dismissed Friday on grounds of "terrorist propaganda" and "publicly spreading false information", according to a court ruling published online by a lawyers' association. Prosecutors had filed suit on January 15 several weeks after the Istanbul Bar Association demanded an investigation into the ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 19:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Europe United Kingdom Heathrow
London's Heathrow Airport said it would resume "some flights" later Friday after a fire at a power station grounded planes at Europe's busiest air hub, causing travel chaos for thousands of people around the world. The electricity substation fire late on Thursday shut down the airport, leading to the cancellation or diversion of hundreds of ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump USA United States F-47
US President Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing has been awarded a major contract for the Air Force's high-tech next-generation F-47 fighter plane. The contract is aimed at continuing the development of the replacement for the F-22 stealth warplane -- which has been in operation for some two decades -- with a new, more advanced aircraft ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 17:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine United Nations Gaza
The UN warned Friday that all of Gaza's approximately one million children were facing "massive trauma" as fighting in the war-ravaged territory resumed and amid dire aid shortages. Humanitarians described an alarming situation in Gaza amid a growing civilian death toll since Israel resumed aerial bombardment and ground operations this week after ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Middle East Turkey Kurds New Year
Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their Newroz New Year Friday with peace prospects still remote. The efforts to broker a solution to the decades-long Kurdish conflict have likely been complicated by the widespread unrest provoked by Wednesday's arrest of Istanbul ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Iran Security forces Deir Ezzor
Security forces in Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor have arrested the head of an Iran-affiliated faction that fought alongside ousted president Bashar al-Assad's forces, a war monitor said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces detained Moayad Abdul Samad al-Douaihy in Deir Ezzor on Thursday. The Britain-based ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 16:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Istanbul Erdogan Ekrem Imamoglu Protests
Turkey braced for a third day of protests on Friday as anger spread across the country over the arrest of Istanbul's popular Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in a graft and terror probe. Imamoglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, was arrested at dawn on Wednesday, just days before he was due to be named the candidate for the main ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Germany said Friday it is holding an ageing oil tanker that it labelled part of Russia's sanctions-breaching "shadow fleet" after the vessel lost engine power in January. News weekly Der Spiegel said the German customs service had seized the vessel and its cargo, but officials declined to confirm this, saying "the customs measures have not yet ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-21 15:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam US Supreme Court Benny Gantz Benjamin Netanyahu Democrats
Israel's supreme court Friday froze a decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to sack the internal security agency chief, an unprecedented move that has deepened divisions in the country. The court's decision came after opposition parties and a non-governmental organisation filed separate appeals hours after the government ...