This Is Beirut 2024-06-22 18:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A war monitor on Saturday said three pro-Iran fighters, including at least two Iraqis, were killed in an overnight air strike in eastern Syria near the Iraq border. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike occurred in Deir Ezzor province. Iran wields significant influence in the area, which is regularly targeted by Israel, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-22 10:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Taiwan's defense ministry said Saturday it had detected 41 Chinese military aircraft around the island in a 24-hour window, a day after Beijing said "diehard" advocates of Taiwan's independence could face the death penalty. China claims self-ruled democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and has said it would never renounce the use of force to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-22 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine on Saturday said Russia had launched a "massive" overnight attack on energy infrastructure in the west and south, adding that at least seven people died from Moscow strikes elsewhere. Russia launched 16 cruise missiles from land, sea and air as well as 13 attack drones, aiming at energy infrastructure in several regions, Ukraine's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 22:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Restrictions on women's rights continue to prevent Afghanistan's "reintegration" into the international community, a senior UN official said Friday, noting the Taliban's participation in upcoming talks in Doha is not legitimization of the isolated government. Since their 2021 return to power, Taliban authorities have not been formally recognized ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
With just a week remaining before a presidential election, Iranians are divided over whether voting will address pressing economic issues and mandatory hijab laws. Iranians head to the polls on June 28 to choose from six candidates—five conservatives and a relative reformist—to succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last ...
Ali A. Hamadé 2024-06-21 16:50 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
With just 15 days until the snap general elections in the United Kingdom, the ruling Conservative Party has never been this weakened. The party is now fighting for its survival. Alarming polls predict not only a landslide victory for the opposition Labour Party but also the implosion of the Conservatives, who are projected to secure an ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 10:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States will prioritize deliveries of anti-air missiles to Kyiv, sending the desperately needed munitions to Ukraine ahead of other countries that have placed orders, the White House said on Thursday. “We're going to reprioritize the deliveries of these exports so that those missiles rolling off the production line will now be ...
2024-06-20 19:02 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Activists said Thursday they were filing a torture complaint against an Iranian citizen held in France who was reportedly a former senior figure in state television in the Islamic republic. Bashir Biazar has been held in administrative detention in France since June 3 pending expulsion from the country for separate reasons, at a time of strained ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-20 17:57 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A Stockholm court on Thursday acquitted a Syrian former general of war crimes charges, saying prosecutors had not proved his involvement in the attacks carried out during the country's civil war. Former brigadier general Mohammed Hamo, 65, lives in Sweden and was one of the highest-ranking Syrian military officials to stand trial in Europe. He ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-20 17:46 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The ongoing civil war in Sudan has provoked one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in decades, the international chief of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Thursday. War has raged for more than a year between the regular military under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-20 16:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
NATO member Romania announced Thursday that it would send a Patriot missile system to Ukraine, welcomed by Kyiv as a "crucial contribution" to help its fight against Russia's invasion. While Kyiv is calling for more Patriot missile systems, most NATO countries have been reluctant to send them because they want to protect their own ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-20 12:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Vietnamese counterpart Thursday as he began a state visit to Hanoi, a day after signing a mutual defence pact with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Putin and Kim inked a strategic treaty at a summit in Pyongyang that included a commitment to come to each other's aid if attacked. Kim also pledged his "full ...