Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on Wednesday urged warring parties in the Middle East to accept “peace proposals”, saying the region including Lebanon “doesn’t need war”. “The Middle East is going through a critical moment,” Parolin told a press conference in Beiru...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP A Hamas official said on Tuesday that talks seeking a pause in its war with Israel cannot go on “indefinitely”, after US President Joe Biden called on the group to accept a cease-fire deal. “We will not allow the path of negotiations to be open indefinitely while the aggression and the […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel kept bombing Gaza on Wednesday after the army said it is ready for “any scenario” following a drone strike in Lebanon which killed the deputy leader of Hamas, stoking fears of a regional escalation. Although Israel did not claim the Beirut assassination on Tuesday evening, it was widely as...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel’s war against Palestinians reached into the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, where an Israeli strike killed Hamas’s deputy leader, the group and security officials in Lebanon said. A high-level security official told AFP that Saleh al-Aruri was killed along with his bodyguards in the strike by ...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Friday that 25 police officers were injured in riots caused by Lebanese of Armenian origin who tried to attack the Azerbaijani Embassy in Beirut. ISF said it respects freedom of expression but conditioned that it does not affect the freedom of others or damage public [&hellip...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon has announced that its security forces arrested a suspected gunman involved in last week’s shooting attack on the US Embassy in Beirut. In a statement, the Directorate of Internal Security Forces (ISF) said a 26-year-old man was arrested in the southern Beirut suburb of Al-Kafa’at. The suspect admitted to o...
BEIRUT (AA) – Unidentified gunmen opened fire outside the US Embassy in Beirut late on Wednesday, but there were no injuries, the mission said on Thursday. Embassy spokesman Jake Nelson said in a statement that the incident took place at 10.37 p.m. local time (1937GMT) in the vicinity of the embassy entrance, and involved the […]
