West Beirut, Lebanon – As poets and writers flit in and out of Sleiman Bakhti’s bookshop and publishing house in Beirut’s Hamra neighbourhood, he greets each one as an old friend, often handing them the latest book release. He has been a “Hamrawi” for decades – living through Hamra’s peaks…
Syrian defence ministry says the ‘aerial aggression’ came from the Mediterranean and hit a number of places. Israel has targeted Iranian military positions in Syria’s Aleppo with an air raid, causing some material damage, according to the Syrian Ministry of Defence. “Israel carried out an aerial aggression from the direction…
Comments from the Israeli war cabinet member are the latest to hint at the possibility of an escalation with Hezbollah. Senior Israeli minister Benny Gantz says the situation on the country’s border with Lebanon “must change”, hinting at the possibility of military escalation with the armed group Hezbollah. Gantz, a…
More than 70 journalists have been killed since the Israel-Gaza war broke out on October 7. Among them, Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa, who was killed in an Israel attack in southern Gaza on December 15. Al Jazeera reporter Carmen Joukhadar was injured during an Israeli air strike in Lebanon…
Beirut, Lebanon – When Hamas put out a call for recruitment in Lebanon on December 4, several mainstream Lebanese political parties and officials denounced the move, accusing the Palestinian group of violating their country’s national sovereignty, while recalling memories of the bloody civil war. But the recruitment for a parallel…
Blinken’s comments come after rights groups say Israel should be investigated over possible war crime. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged Israel to conclude and release the findings of a probe into artillery strikes that killed a journalist and wounded six others in Lebanon. Blinken said on…
Attack marks first death for Lebanon’s armed forces since cross-border attacks with Israel started in October. A Lebanese soldier has been killed in Israeli shelling on a military post near the country’s southern border, Lebanon’s army said, the first such death since cross-border hostilities began in October Three others were…
Israeli shelling kills a woman and her son in Houla as Hezbollah says one of its fighters is also killed. Israeli shelling has killed three people in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s state news agency reports after the end of a truce between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas prompted a…
As a cautious calm descended on the border of south Lebanon on Saturday, the second day of a four-day ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of residents came back to life – at least briefly. Shuttered shops reopened, cars moved through the streets and, in one border…
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon condemns attack as ‘deeply troubling’, no troops were injured. The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has said that Israeli fire hit one of its patrols in the country’s south, despite a truce between Israel and Hamas largely quietening the Lebanon-Israel frontier. “At around 12:00 pm,…
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