This Is Beirut 2024-08-24 10:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
American forces killed a senior leader of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group in a strike in Syria on Friday, the US military said. The strike targeted Abu Abdul Rahman al-Makki, who was "a Hurras al-Din Shura Council member and senior leader responsible for overseeing terrorist operations from Syria," the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a ...
Marc Saikali 2024-08-24 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tehran’s brief statement reads: “Israel may be waiting a long time for Iran’s counteraction.” The regime’s staunch supporters see this as a shrewd strategic move to fray Israeli nerves, which they believe are consumed with worry. Yet, the more skeptical consider that Iran might delegate response to its proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-23 20:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Arab Emirates has accepted the credentials of an ambassador from Afghanistan's Taliban government, officials said, becoming just the second country after China to do so. The oil-rich Gulf state said it was committed to "building bridges" to help the Afghan people, after the Kabul foreign ministry announced on social media that new ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-23 17:21 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran has arrested 14 suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group who were allegedly planning attacks in the country, authorities said on Friday. The 14 members of "Islamic State-Khorasan have been arrested" in a series of operations, the Intelligence Ministry said in a statement cited by state news agency IRNA. Islamic ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-23 14:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his first visit to Kyiv on Friday to again call for a diplomatic solution to more than two years of war with Russia, saying he stood "firmly for peace" in talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Modi was in Kyiv just over a month after angering Ukraine by hugging President Vladimir Putin during a meeting ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-23 12:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's new Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has called for dialogue with the European Union to resolve bilateral issues, following a phone call with the bloc's top diplomat. "The Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes the development of relations with the European Union in an environment based on mutual respect," Araghchi said in a statement issued ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-23 12:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron is beginning a round of thorny consultations on Friday with political leaders, hoping to cobble together a viable ruling coalition after last month's inconclusive election. A full six weeks after a snap election in which Macron lost his parliamentary majority, he has still not named a new prime minister, whose ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-23 10:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to drop out of the race for the White House, US media reported on Wednesday, with the independent candidate due to make a major address later in the week. The New York Times and CNN reported that Kennedy, whose support was at 8.7% in a nationwide poll by The Hill this week, would back ...
2024-08-23 10:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The issue of checkpoints in the Gaza Strip is a central point in the ceasefire talks held on August 15 in Doha. The Netzarim corridor is one of the contested routes. This is Beirut provides an overview of this area, which divides the enclave in two and has been recently developed by Israel. The final phase of ceasefire negotiations for Gaza, held ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-22 21:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Venezuela's Supreme Court, which observers say is loyal to the government of President Nicolas Maduro, on Thursday declared him the winner of the disputed July 28 election amid opposition claims of widespread vote fraud. In its ruling read by presiding judge Caryslia Rodriguez, the court said it had "indisputably certified election materials and ...
Mario Chartouni 2024-08-22 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Former United States President Donald Trump may consider appointing Elon Musk to a role in his administration if he is re-elected in November, as he told Reuters during an interview on Monday. But what makes Musk so special? A non-linear odyssey The world's richest man, the CEO of multiple multinational companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-22 11:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia said Thursday that it had repelled several Ukrainian drone and missile attacks in the west of the country, including in Volgograd where a fire broke out at a Defense Ministry site. Volgograd region Governor Andrey Bocharov said Russian air defenses repelled a drone attack in the area of Marinovka and that "most of the drones were ...