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Jerusalem: Israel warned residents of south Lebanon “not to return” to their homes on Saturday as Hezbollah said it launched missiles across the border on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. In cities around Israel, markets were closed and public transport halted as observant Jews fasted and prayed. But with the country…
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It’s not every day a country dares to ignore the mighty America. Most nations know that defying the US President may result in a stern warning, maybe a bit of diplomatic cold shoulder or, in the worst-case scenario, a new set of sanctions. But then again, not every leader is Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli Prime…
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Jerusalem: The Israeli army said its forces dismantled a Hezbollah tunnel that crossed into the country’s territory, as its troops continued to carry out ground operations in southern Lebanon. “Tonight we reported that we located and dismantled a tunnel of about 25 metres long, which crossed the border fence about 10 metres … into Israeli…
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Beirut: Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli military intelligence base near Tel Aviv on Monday. The Iran-backed group said it fired “a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base of military intelligence unit 8200 on the outskirts of Tel Aviv”. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by…
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In an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine in October 2023, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan wrote, “…Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades… The Israeli-Palestinian situation is tense, particularly in the West Bank, but in the face of serious frictions, we have…
New Delhi: No Hezbollah operative suspected they were carrying Israeli-made bombs that were designed to ensure the user performs a two-handed procedure to access the pager’s message before it exploded, The Washington Post has said in an exclusive story. Here’s your 5-point cheat sheet to this big story The Apollo pager was built for use…
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The 1979 Iranian revolution, which saw the fall of a thousands-of-years-old monarchy and spawned the birth of a theocratic republic, was one of the most consequential events of post-World War West Asia. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the last king of Iran, was a close ally of the U.S. and Israel. In 1953, the U.S. helped…
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Beirut/Jerusalem: The potential successor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been out of contact since Friday, a Lebanese security source told Reuters on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike that is reported to have targeted him. In its campaign against the Iran-backed Lebanese group, Israel carried out a large strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs late…
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Beirut: Israel’s military said Thursday it had hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital, as troops battled militants near the border and warplanes bombarded their strongholds around the country. Israel announced this week that its troops had started “ground raids” into parts of southern Lebanon, a stronghold of Hezbollah, after days of heavy bombardment…
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The last two weeks have seen the Middle East teetering on a knife’s edge. While tensions have been high since the Hamas attacks last October, the developments in the previous two weeks have been particularly concerning. Tensions began to rise on September 17 when the pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded all of a sudden,…
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