BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon has suspended in-person classes at schools in Beirut and surrounding areas after Israeli airstrikes hit the center of the capital, Minister of Education Abbas Halabi announced Sunday. Schools and higher educational institutions will be closed Monday and Tuesday in Beirut and Chouf, northern Metn, Baabda and Aley. Th...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army launched a series of airstrikes late Sunday on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut after threatening to bomb buildings housing branches of Al-Qard Al-Hasan, a financial institution affiliated with the Hezbollah group. Israeli warplanes carried out at least 11 strikes targeting branches in Hayy ...
LONDON (AA) – Norway has advised all its citizens in Lebanon to leave while it remains possible and warned against any travel to the region. According to an official statement, Norway’s ambassador to Lebanon will remain in Beirut, along with a small number of diplomats, to monitor the situation. The announcement comes as Israel intensifi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – UAE-based air carrier Emirates canceled its flights from and to Baghdad, Basra, Tehran and Beirut. According to a travel update from the carrier, the cancelations will end on Oct. 16 for Iraq and Iran and on Oct. 15 for Beirut. Previously, several airlines took similar steps for the region, where geopolitical tensions [&h...
BEIRUT (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Tuesday evening that Israel had killed Hashem Safieddine, the potential successor to assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, without directly naming him. Netanyahu made the announcement in a recorded speech, addressing the Lebanese people and delivering unpreceden...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least 13 people have been killed during a series of Israeli bombardments of Beirut’s southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, and southern Lebanese towns. According to Lebanon’s official news agency, the Israeli army carried out 12 airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, targeting key areas....
BEIRUT (AA) – Seven paramedics with the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Authority were killed in an Israeli strike on a civil defense center in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Thursday, the emergency medical service said. The victims included the head of the Civil Defense Service in Beirut, Raja Zreik, in the late-night attack that targeted...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that the promises of cease-fire made by Americans and Europeans if Iran did not respond to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were “false.” He said this during a cabinet meeting in Tehran, condemning the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Iran had vo...
BEIRUT (AA) – Israeli forces launched early Monday an airstrike on Beirut’s Kola area, marking the first attack inside the Lebanese capital since the conflict with Hezbollah started last October. According to an Anadolu correspondent, an Israeli drone targeted a fifth-floor apartment in a building on the road connecting Beirut with Rafik...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US did not have “advanced warning” of the recent Israeli strike in Beirut which is claimed to have killed Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah, the Pentagon said. “The United States was not involved in this operation, and we had no advanced warning,” Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh t...
