French President Emmanuel Macron has told U.S. President Donald Trump that U.S. sanctions that have targeted Iran-backed Shia group Hezbollah are playing into the hands of those they are meant to weaken, including Iran, an Elysee official said on (...)
Rocket warning sirens sounded in northern Israel near the Lebanese border on Friday, following what turned out to be a false report that a drone had crossed into Israel, its military said.
Israel has been on high alert in recent weeks as tensions (...)
Lebanese President Michel Aoun knew about the huge stockpile of explosive material stored at Beirut's port nearly three weeks before it blew up, he said Friday, adding he had ordered action be taken about it at the time, although the top leader also (...)
Lebanon's president said on Friday an investigation into the biggest blast in Beirut's history would examine whether "external interference" had a role, as residents tried to rebuild their shattered lives and homes after the explosion.
The search (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron called for urgent support for Lebanon where he arrived on Thursday, two days after a devastating blast ripped through Beirut, killing 145 people and generating a seismic shock that was felt across the region.
Dozens (...)
Lebanon mourned on Thursday the victims of the most powerful blast to hit the country that was already being crushed by an economic crisis, as rescuers searched for those missing since the explosion that flattened Beirut port and devastated the (...)
Investigators began searching the wreckage of Beirut's port Wednesday for clues to the cause of the massive explosion that ripped across the Lebanese capital as the government ordered port officials put under house arrest.
International aid flights (...)
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic exceeded 700,000 on Wednesday with the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico leading the rise according to a Reuters tally.
Nearly 5,900 people are dying every 24 hours from COVID-19 on average, (...)
Residents of Beirut awoke to a scene of utter devastation on Wednesday, a day after a massive explosion at the port sent shock waves across the Lebanese capital, killing at least 100 people and wounding thousands.
Smoke was still rising from the (...)
A stand-off between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main coalition partner over passage of Israel's budget threatens to trigger its fourth election in a little over a year amid an economic crisis fuelled by the coronavirus outbreak.
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Israel has nothing to do with a huge explosion at the Beirut port area on Tuesday, an Israeli official said.
"Israel has nothing to do with the incident," the official said on condition of anonymity. Israel's Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told (...)
Concern is rising that Lebanon will be dragged into a new and debilitating conflict between the Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah and Israel at a time when both sides are suffering from domestic crises.
In Lebanon, the government backed by Hizbullah is (...)
TWO massive explosions hit Beirut on Tuesday, leaving hundreds injured, an unknown number of people dead, and causing extensive damage to the port area. Until Al-Ahram Weekly went to press, the cause of the blasts was unknown.
The first explosion (...)
I've been engaged in Democratic Party platform debates for over three decades and am amazed at how the party consistently gets the section on Israel/Palestine wrong. Wrong because the positions expressed are out of touch with political realities on (...)
في عام 2014، وقّع عدد من نجوم هوليوود بيانا يدعم إسرائيل في حربها على قطاع غزة، كان من بينهم الممثل الكوميدي والمخرج والمنتج الكندي-الأمريكي، سيث روجن، الذي يقول الآن إنه قد "لُقِن الكثير من الأكاذيب حول إسرائيل".
خلال استضافته في بودكاست "WTF" (...)
أثار نجم هوليوود اليهودي، سيث روجن، جدلًا كبيرًا خلال حوار تلفزيوني للترويج لفيلمه الجديد عن قصة مهاجر يهودي، حين هاجم بعنف إسرائيل وأكاذيبها بشأن قيام دولة إسرائيل على أنقاض تشريد الفلسطينيين؛ ما دفع صحف إسرائيلية لشن حملة هجوم كبيرة ضده.
الممثل (...)
Jordan has set Nov. 10 as the date for parliamentary elections, hours after a royal decree to hold a countrywide poll, state media said Wednesday.
Jordan's parliament has legislative powers but its electoral law marginalises the representation of (...)
تداولت حسابات على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي اللقطات المصورة الأولى للقصف الإسرائيلي العنيف الذي استهدف جنوب لبنان منذ لحظات.
ومنذ قليل، أصدر جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي بيانًا عاجلًا طالب فيه المستوطنين بمنطقة الحدود مع لبنان بالتزام منازلهم.
يأتي ذلك (...)
A section of a mosque in the occupied West Bank was set on fire on Monday, and Palestinian officials accused Israeli settlers of being behind the attack.
"The Land of Israel for the People of Israel," read part of a slogan sprayed in Hebrew on the (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to infiltrate across the Lebanon frontier on Monday, which the Iranian-backed Shia group denied.
"Hezbollah should know it is playing with fire," (...)
Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week with a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world according to according to a Reuters tally.
A record 284,196 new cases were (...)
Police said Sunday they arrested more than a dozen Israelis in country-wide protests the previous night that drew thousands of people in a growing and persistent show of force against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his handling of the (...)
Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the (...)
The Israeli military on Friday said its helicopters struck Syrian army targets in response to mortars fired toward the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
"A number of targets were struck, including SAF observation posts and intelligence collection (...)
People arriving from 16 countries outside the European Union where the infection rate of COVID-19 is deemed to be high will be subject to compulsory testing on arrival at French airports and sea ports, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on (...)
