DAMASCUS / BEIRUT (AA) — At least 70 officers of Syria’s deposed Assad regime who had fled to Lebanon have reportedly been handed over to Syria’s new administration. “The army on Saturday handed over to the Syrian Military Operations Directorate approximately 70 Syrian nationals, including officers of various ranks from the f...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Israeli army forces staged an incursion into a strategic area in southern Lebanon, in the latest violation of a cease-fire agreement, Lebanese media said. Israeli forces moved into the Wadi al-Hujeir area, firing heavy-caliber machine guns during their advance in the region, the state news agency NNA reported. The Lebanese army...
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Waltz credited Netanyahu for key regional achievements, including weakening Hezbollah and exposing Iran’s air defenses. He said Iran now is vulnerable, with its finances and proxy networks disrupted. Waltz also...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Two former Israeli intelligence officers say that Mossad controlled “every aspect” of the attacks on Lebanon and Syria in September. Planning for the two-day act of terror, which killed 30 and injured over 3,000 on September 17 and 18, began a decade ago by weaponizing walkie-talkies, according to former Mossad offi...
ANKARA (AA) – China has dispatched a new contingent of peacekeepers to join the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to the Ministry of National Defense and state-run media reports. The second group of personnel from China’s 23rd peacekeeping contingent successfully arrived in southern Lebanon, where they joi...
Israel has escalated its military campaign, launching attacks across Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria this week. In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes killed 32 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including children and a doctor, in the besieged north. Fourteen of the victims were women and children, as residential areas in Jabalia were devastated. Simult...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem says the Syrian people have the right to choose their government and constitution. Qassem said in a televised speech that “the regime in Syria has fallen at the hands of new forces that we cannot judge until they stabilize, take clear positions, and establish order.” “We h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Suheil Hamawi, a Lebanese national, has returned to his homeland after 33 years of inhumane imprisonment in Syria. The Bashar al-Assad regime operated numerous torture centers across the country referred to as “death hubs.” Following the regime’s collapse over the weekend and the opposition’s takeover, anti-re...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A UN peacekeeping force has entered Khiam town in southern Lebanon to verify reports of Israeli troop withdrawal from the area. An engineering battalion from the UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL moved into Khiam to inspect reports that the Israeli army had withdrawn from the town, the Lebanese state news agency NNA reported...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army has struck a home in northern Lebanon and demolished several buildings in the country’s south, in the latest violation of a cease-fire deal between Tel Aviv and Beirut, Lebanese media said. Israeli aircraft fired a missile into a 3-story home in Qleiaat town in Akkar province, but the missile […]
