What does the assassination of Razi Mousavi mean?
Iran’s al-Quds force lost one of its most prominent figures less than a week before the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Gen. Qassim Soleimani. On Monday, Iran’s state television...
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Iranian Guards vow revenge against Israel over general's killing
TEHRAN — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Israel on Wednesday that it or its allied groups would take "direct" action to avenge the killing of senior commander Razi Moussavi....
27 December 2023
Fadi Abi Allam: ‘We won’t change the culture of shooting firearms into the air with a piece of legislation’
Joy, sorrow, pride or outrage: gunshots go hand in hand with most of the social events in Lebanon. Where does this tradition, which is found in all communities and areas, and whose consequences...
Emmanuel HADDAD, 27 December 2023
Palestinians work to identify 80 dead handed over from Israel
Israel has handed over the bodies of 80 Palestinians killed in the conflict in Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Wednesday after they were buried and the authorities recorded...
27 December 2023
Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli strike kills 20 Palestinians in Khan Younis
Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement that an Israeli strike killed 20 Palestinians on Wednesday near the Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
27 December 2023
Blinken to travel to Middle East next week
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to the Middle East late next week to discuss the war in Gaza, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing five US, Israeli and Arab officials....
27 December 2023
Leader of Lebanon's declining Jewish community dies
The former president of Lebanon's tiny Jewish community, who had pushed for the rehabilitation of Beirut's abandoned synagogue, has died, his family and the community's lawyer told AFP on...
27 December 2023
Turkey's Erdogan says Israeli PM Netanyahu no different from Hitler
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was no different from Adolf Hitler and likened Israel's attacks on Gaza to the treatment of...
27 December 2023
Former Israeli settlers yearn to return to Gaza after war
"A house on the beach is not a dream!" The advertising slogan by an Israeli settlement developer is music to the ears of former Gaza settlers yearning to return to the Palestinian territory after...
27 December 2023
eSIM cards help war-torn Gaza stay online
Power cuts have become a fact of life in war-torn Gaza. But thanks to embedded SIM cards, Palestinians can still access the internet and stay in touch with loved ones abroad....
27 December 2023
More than 21,100 Palestinians killed in Gaza in Israeli strikes since Oct. 7
A total of 21,110 Palestinians have been killed and 55,243 injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza since Oct. 7, the health ministry in Gaza said on Wednesday. The figures include 195...
27 December 2023
Syrian arrested for 'insulting Lebanese people' during Israeli airstrikes in Nabatieh district
BEIRUT — State security arrested a Syrian person for "insulting Lebanese citizens" who were in the vicinity of an area that was targeted by an Israeli air strike on Tuesday between the towns of...
27 December 2023
Iran dismisses IAEA report on uranium enrichment
Iran's atomic energy chief Mohammad Eslami on Wednesday said there was "nothing new" in an international nuclear watchdog report saying that Tehran had reversed a months-long slowdown in its...
27 December 2023
Suspect arrested for burning a Christmas tree three days ago in Tripoli
BEIRUT — The Lebanese army announced on Wednesday that it arrested an individual on Tuesday suspected of burning a Christmas tree on Dec. 24. "On [Tuesday], a patrol from the Intelligence...
27 December 2023
Israel army chief says war with Hamas will last 'many more months'
Israel's army chief warned its war with Hamas will last "many more months" as the military stepped up strikes inside the Gaza Strip, where more than 20,000 people have already been reported killed....
27 December 2023
Wassim Hafezeh, 13, shot in the arm
More than two dozen people have been struck by stray bullets in Lebanon so far this year, according to a count by L’Orient Today . The below testimony is part of a project by L’Orient Today and...
Madeline EDWARDS, with photos by João Sousa, 27 December 2023
US, Israel discuss 'different phase' of war
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met Tuesday to discuss shifting "to a different phase" of the Israel-Hamas war with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, a White House...
27 December 2023
Zeinab al-Maoula, 60, shot in the shoulder
More than two dozen people have been struck by stray bullets so far in Lebanon this year, according to a count by L’Orient Today. The below testimony is part of a project by L’Orient Today and...
Madeline EDWARDS, with photos by João Sousa, 27 December 2023
Stray bullets: What is the Lebanese judiciary doing?
More than two dozen people have been struck by stray bullets in Lebanon so far this year, according to a count by L’Orient Today . The below testimony is part of a project by L’Orient Today and...
Emannuel Haddad, 27 December 2023
Veh Christ Harboyan, 13, shot in the back
More than two dozen people have been struck by stray bullets in Lebanon so far this year, according to a count by L’Orient Today . The below testimony is part of a project by L’Orient Today and...
Madeline EDWARDS, with photos by João Sousa, 27 December 2023
Mariam Ibrahim, 41, shot in the stomach
More than two dozen people have been struck by stray bullets so far in Lebanon this year, according to a count by L’Orient Today . The below testimony is part of a project by L’Orient Today and...
Madeline EDWARDS, with photos by João Sousa, 27 December 2023
Lebanon’s invisible killer: Stray bullets
Sidewalks. Apartment buildings. Commercial airplanes parked at the Beirut airport, a Saida vegetable seller’s potato cart. This author’s own balcony. All of the above have been hit by stray...
Madeline EDWARDS, with photos by João Sousa, 27 December 2023
Lebanese-Australian, his wife and Hezbollah brother killed in Israeli air strike
An Israeli air strike on a residence in south Lebanon has killed a Lebanese-Australian man, his wife, and his brother, who was a member of armed group Hezbollah, security and local sources told...
27 December 2023
Six killed in Israeli operation in occupied West Bank
An Israeli operation in a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank left six people dead and several others wounded early Wednesday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of...
27 December 2023
UN names outgoing Dutch minister humanitarian coordinator for Gaza
The United Nations named an outgoing Dutch minister its humanitarian coordinator for Gaza on Tuesday following last week's watered-down Security Council resolution which called for aid to be...
27 December 2023
US says it downs many drones, missiles fired by Huthis over Red Sea
US military forces shot down more than a dozen attack drones and several missiles fired by Yemen-based Houthi rebels at shipping in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said on Tuesday....
27 December 2023
France says 'gravely concerned' by intensified Gaza fighting
France is "gravely concerned" by Israel's announcement that it will intensify and prolong fighting against Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday....
27 December 2023
Day of escalation in south Lebanon; 'diplomacy's time is running out,' warns Gantz: Day 82 of Hamas-Israel war
21:01 Beirut Time Thank you for following our LIVE coverage of day 82 of the Israel-Hamas war. We will be back tomorrow with more news updates. 20:26 Beirut Time...
Ghadir Hamadi, 27 December 2023
Israeli strike kills two, weapons licenses frozen, 54 rescued off Arida coast: Everything you need to know to start your Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 80 of the Israel-Hamas war here . An Israeli strike killed two people and...
