Tag Archives: Middle East

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says it has targeted an Israeli military vehicle near the border with the occupied Palestinian lands, killing and injuring all forces on board. According to the Lebanese resistance group, the operation was carried out by two fighter groups, who targeted two Israeli vehicles. One of the …

A missile hit the car park of Libya’s only functioning airport in Tripoli on Saturday, forcing flights to be grounded for almost three hours before operations resumed, the airport and a witness said. The airport said on its website that Mitiga airport “was exposed to a missile, coinciding with the …

Israel has carried out several attacks targeting bases of Iraqi anti-terror forces “in recent days”, the New York Times reports. Two senior American officials told the newspaper that the attacks targeted Iraqi munition storehouses, alleging that the site was being used “to transfer weapons to Syria”. The report comes amid …

Tunisia’s electoral commission said on Wednesday it had approved 26 candidates including two women for next month’s presidential election and had rejected 71 other applicants. The Sept. 15 vote follows the death at age 92 last month of Beji Caid Essebsi, the first president to be democratically elected in Tunisia …

At least 19 people were killed and 30 people were injured in multiple car explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute, the Ministry of Health said, according to state-run Al-Ahram on Monday. A car driving against traffic collided with three cars on Sunday night on Nile Corniche street in the capital …

Some Syrian Army soldiers have been killed in a blast that rocked the Shayrat airbase located in the east of the Syrian Homs province, local media report without revealing the exact number of casualties. According to the state SANA news agency, the explosion was a result of a “technical error” …

Yemeni forces have launched drone attacks on King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Asir in retaliation against the kingdom’s aggression on their country. The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said several Qasef-K2 (Striker-K2) combat drones had targeted the airbase near the city of …

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says it has identified and destroyed an integrated network of operatives serving the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) inside the country. The Ministry’s director-general for counterintelligence said Monday that Iran captured 17 professional spies working on behalf of the CIA throughout last year and some of those …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps released footage which it says disproves the US claim of shooting down an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz, showing the video was transmitted after the alleged time it was destroyed. The elite military unit published the footage on Friday and it was aired and …

Fires raged across Israel on Wednesday due to extreme weather conditions as Police forces try to evacuate residents from over 120 households, 15 of which caught fire. A fire broke out mid-afternoon in a Jerusalem parking lot in the Malha neighborhood, setting approximately 10 cars aflame. The Aderet and Roglit …

The ancient Philistines, the Biblical villains whose origins have puzzled scholars for decades, came to the Middle East from southern Europe more than 3,000 years ago, new DNA testing has shown. The genetic findings came from skeletons unearthed by archaeologists in Palestine in 2016, including the bones of infants buried …

Turkish authorities have detained at least three French women on suspicion of Daesh links in a region on the Syrian border while they were trying to illegally cross the border. State news agency Anadolu reported that the women along with nine children were stopped in the border province of Kilis …

Authorities in Iran have seized roughly 1,000 Bitcoin mining machines from two former factories, according to state TV reports. The action was taken following a spike in electricity consumption. Demand for power rose by 7% in June and cryptocurrency mining was thought to be the main cause, an energy ministry …

Iran’s president has responded with defiance to the latest sanctions imposed by the US, saying they show it is lying about wanting dialogue. Hassan Rouhani said the measures against Iran’s supreme leader unveiled by President Donald Trump on Monday would be “useless” and denounced the US plans to target his …

A Saudi soldier has reportedly opened fire on his comrades at a military base in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan, killing three of them before turning himself into authorities. Sabq News website, citing unnamed security sources, reported on Monday that the soldier, whose identity was not immediately known, …

Leading Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has criticized President Donald Trump’s strategy on Iran, saying his decision to pull out of the historic nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic had made conflict more likely. “President Trump’s Iran strategy is a self-inflicted disaster”, Biden said in a …

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, agreed to a plea deal on Wednesday morning in a case concerning illegally ordered meals at the Prime Minister’s residence, according to a statement released by Israel’s Justice Ministry. Sara Netanyahu, who was initially charged with fraud one year ago, …

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani on a visit to Tehran this week, in a bid to ease the tension between Washington and Iran that experts called a bold move for a Japanese leader. Tension has escalated a year after …

Tehran has freed Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese national serving a jail term in Iran for espionage for the United States, following mediation efforts by President Michel Aoun of Lebanon. Lebanon’s General Directorate of General Security (GDGS)said in a statement on social media that its head, Abbas Ibrahim, was “en route …

An Iraqi court has sentenced to death the last two French nationals on trial for joining the terrorist Daesh group and involvement in acts of terror. The men, identified as Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, 41, were convicted of joining Daesh and carrying out criminal operations by a criminal …