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Saba Yemen
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Iranian Foreign Minister: Israeli threats forced Tehran to take precautionary measures
Tehran - Saba: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday that the Zionist entity's threat to Iranian nuclear facilities is a serious threat to regional and international security, and the Security Council must assume its responsibilities. In statements reported by Al-Mayadeen TV, he added: "In view of the recent Israeli threats, Tehran was forced to take a number of precautionary measures to protect its nuclear facilities, and the International Atomic Energy Agency will later review their details." Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Time of India
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
American Warplanes Bomb Israel-Linked Galaxy Leader, Eight Injured Across Yemen In U.S. Air Raids
American forces reportedly bombed the Israeli-linked cargo ship Galaxy Leader off the coast of Yemen, according to Al-Mayadeen TV. Three separate airstrikes were launched on the ship, which had been seized earlier by Houthi forces during a helicopter operation in November 2023. The U.S. military also conducted widespread aerial strikes across Yemen, targeting multiple areas including the Ras Isa Oil Port, Kamaran Island, and Sanaa, reportedly injuring civilians including two children. These strikes come in response to Houthi attacks on strategic Israeli sites and a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.#houthis #galaxyleader #unitedstates #yemen Read More
Al Bawaba
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Bawaba
Explosive drone hits Lebanese town, injures 8 Syrians
Published April 24th, 2025 - 06:47 GMT Syrian media reported that Lebanese Hezbollah forces had earlier shelled the village of Al-Masriyah, located in Syria's Al-Qusayr region near the Lebanese border. The shelling caused civilian casualties, including injuries to a woman and a child. ALBAWABA- An explosive drone launched from Syria's Homs countryside struck a farm in the Lebanese border town of Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali on Thursday, injuring at least eight displaced Syrians, according to Lebanon's LBC channel and Al-Mayadeen TV. Also Read 61 killed in Israeli raids in 12 hours on Gaza The Lebanese army has since dispatched reinforcements to secure the volatile area. The attack appears to be part of escalating cross-border tensions. Syrian media reported that Lebanese Hezbollah forces had earlier shelled the village of Al-Masriyah, located in Syria's Al-Qusayr region near the Lebanese border. The shelling caused civilian casualties, including injuries to a woman and a child. 🔹 قالت وسائل إعلام سورية إن ميليشيا حزب الله اللبنانية قصفت قرية المصرية بريف القصير في محافظة حمص قرب الحدود مع #لبنان؛ ما أسفر عن إصابة مدنيين.🔹 وفي معلومات أولية أصيبت امرأة وطفل في القصير جراء القصف. 🔹 وبدورها، أفادت قناة "ال بي سي" اللبنانية بأنه تم تسجيل 6 إصابات بين… Also Read Islamabad freezes all bilateral ties with India — Erem News - إرم نيوز (@EremNews) April 24, 2025 The Mukhaybar border crossing was also reportedly hit by artillery fire, further injuring displaced Syrians attempting to cross into Lebanon. The retaliatory drone strike from the Homs region appears to have targeted Hezbollah-linked positions, though it ultimately struck a civilian site. Eyewitnesses and local media reported heavy gunfire in the area following the drone explosion, amplifying fears of a broader escalation between Hezbollah and unidentified armed groups in Syria. © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
Nahar Net
13-03-2025
- Politics
- Nahar Net
Lebanese govt. says talks with Israel 'still indirect', rejects 'normalization'
by Naharnet Newsdesk 13 March 2025, 12:41 Lebanon's negotiations with Israel are 'still indirect' and our stance does not support 'normalization,' Information Minister Paul Morkos announced Thursday after a cabinet session. Informed sources had told Al-Manar TV that the U.S. and Israel consider that the work of the ceasefire monitoring committee in its military-security nature has 'ended' and that 'a diplomatic-political committee' should be formed, 'However, the Lebanese state has rejected this proposal, seeing as the political-diplomatic aspect means normalization with the enemy,' the sources added. Sources also told Al-Mayadeen TV that 'everything that is being said about these groups being a prelude to normalization is baseless.' A statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that representatives of the Israeli and Lebanese armies, the U.S. and France agreed during a meeting of the ceasefire committee in Naqoura to "establish three joint working groups aimed at stabilizing the region." "These groups will focus on the five points controlled by Israel in southern Lebanon, discussions on the Blue Line and remaining disputed areas, and the issue of Lebanese detainees held by Israel," the statement added. The sources told Al-Mayadeen that 'these groups are not separate from Resolution 1701 and will not engage in direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel.' An Israeli political source said Wednesday that "the discussions are part of a broad and comprehensive plan." 'The Prime Minister's policy has already changed the Middle East, and we want to continue the momentum and reach normalization with Lebanon. Just as Lebanon has claims regarding the borders, so do we. We will discuss these matters," the source told Israel's Channel 12. "We and the Americans think that this is possible after the changes that have occurred in Lebanon," the source said. The United States announced Tuesday that it will be 'bringing together Lebanon and Israel for talks aimed at diplomatically resolving several outstanding issues between the two countries.' A statement issued by Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus said the issues that will be discussed are 'the release of Lebanese prisoners, the remaining disputed points along the Blue Line, and the remaining 5 points where Israeli forces are still deployed.' 'Military to military talks concluded in Naqoura, Lebanon today, and subsequently 5 Lebanese prisoners have been released back to Lebanon from Israel,' Ortagus added. 'Everyone involved remains committed to maintaining the ceasefire agreement and to fully implement all its terms. We look forward to quickly convening these diplomat-led working groups to resolve outstanding issues, along with our international partners,' she said. "We want to get a political resolution, finally, to the border disputes," Ortagus said in an interview on Al-Jadeed television. "When it comes to the border agreement, the land border agreement, there are 13 points -- I think that six are still problematic," she added. Ortagus added that Israel had "withdrawn from over 99 percent of the territory." "I feel fairly confident that... we can have final resolution on the five points and ultimately on the remaining issues related to the Blue Line," she said. In its Wednesday edition, the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper warned that 'America has plunged Lebanon into the normalization adventure' and that it is 'dragging Lebanon into peace negotiations.' It also quoted the head of the U.S.-based Hostage Aid Worldwide organization Nizar Zakka as saying that 'what happened in the file of captives is aimed at paving the way for any peace initiatives and negotiations with Lebanon,' adding that 'this is what the U.S. administration is looking for.'
Euronews
08-03-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
Fighters loyal to Syria's government kill dozens in reprisal attacks
The fighters stormed several villages near the country's coast, killing dozens of men believed to be linked to the regime of former President Bashar Assad. ADVERTISEMENT The ongoing clashes between the two sides have marked the worst violence since Assad's government was toppled in early December by insurgent groups led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The new government has pledged to unite Syria after 14 years of civil war. The coastal village assaults erupted on Thursday and continued into Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights More than 200 people have been killed since the fighting broke out, according to the Britain-based group reported. In addition to around 140 killed in apparent revenge attacks in the villages, the dead include at least 50 members of Syria's government forces and 45 fighters loyal to Assad. The civil war that has been raging in Syria since March 2011 has left more than half a million people dead and millions displaced. The most recent clashes began when government forces tried to detain a wanted person near the coastal city of Jableh on Thursday and were ambushed by Assad loyalists, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On Thursday and Friday, gunmen loyal to the new government stormed the villages of Sheer, Mukhtariyeh and Haffah near the coast, killing 69 men but harming no women, according to the observatory. 'They killed every man they encountered,' said observatory chief Rami Abdurrahman. Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV also reported the attacks on the three villages, saying that more than 30 men were killed in the village of Mukhtariyeh alone. Another 60 people were killed in the town of Baniyas, including women and children, the observatory said. Syrian authorities did not publish a death toll, but Syria's state news agency SANA quoted an unidentified security official as saying that numerous people went to the coast seeking revenge for recent attacks on government security forces. The official said the actions "led to some individual violations and we are working on stop them.' Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in a video statement called on armed groups affiliated with the former government to hand over their weapons and for those loyal to the new government to avoid attacking civilians or abusing prisoners. 'When we compromise our ethics, we reduce ourselves to the same level as our enemy,' he said. 'The remnants of the fallen regime are looking for a provocation that will lead to violations behind which they can seek refuge.' Coastal towns still under the control of Assad loyalists Overnight, Damascus sent reinforcements to the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartus and nearby villages that are home to Assad's minority Alawite sect and make up his longtime base of support. A curfew remained in effect in Latakia and other coastal areas. Under Assad, Alawites held top posts in the army and security agencies. The new government has blamed his loyalists for attacks against the country's new security forces over the past several weeks. There also have been some attacks against Alawites in recent weeks, though the new government says it won't allow collective punishment or sectarian vengeance. As of Friday, the observatory said, Jableh and the coastal town of Baniyas were still under the control of Assad loyalists, along with other Alawite villages nearby and Assad's hometown of Qardaha, in the mountains overlooking Latakia. One Qardaha resident told The Associated Press in a text message that government forces were firing with heavy machine guns in the town's residential areas. Another said people had not been able to leave their homes since Thursday afternoon because of the intensity of the shooting. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. ADVERTISEMENT The fighting could stoke more sectarian tensions Gregory Waters, an associate fellow with the Middle East Institute who has researched Syria's coastal areas, said he doesn't expect the flareup to escalate into sustained fighting between the two sides. However, he said he was concerned it could stoke cycles of violence between different civilian communities living along the coast. Also, any violations by the security forces sent from Damascus would leave young Alawite men more fearful of the new government — and more prone to take up arms, Waters said. In Damascus, a crowd gathered in the rain at Umayyad Square to show support for the new government. "We've had enough of long periods of wars and tragedies,' said retiree Mazen Abdelmajeed. He blamed the violence on remnants of the former regime and said Syria's unity must be preserved. ADVERTISEMENT 'No one wants a civil war to happen,' he said. 'We're not against any of the components of the Syrian people. … We're all one Syrian people.' Qutaiba Idlbi, a research fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank, said that apart from the danger of sectarian escalation, the violence had laid bare a 'big security challenge for the government in terms of potentially its inability to address multiple security threats on multiple fronts across the country." Armed groups opposed to the new authorities may take note, he said. Syrian people ask Russia for help Scores of people gathered on Friday outside the main Russian air base in Syria near Jableh to ask Moscow for protection. Russia joined Syria's conflict in 2015, siding with Assad, although it has since established links with the new government. Assad has been living in Moscow since leaving Syria in December. Russia's foreign ministry said in a written statement that Moscow is 'closely coordinating efforts with foreign partners in the interests of a speedy de-escalation of the situation.' ADVERTISEMENT 'We reaffirm our principled position in support of the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic,' the statement said. 'We expect that all states that have influence on the situation in Syria will contribute to its normalization.' A warning from Turkey Turkey, which backed the insurgents when Assad was still in power, warned on Friday that the current fighting poses a serious threat to the new government. 'Intensive efforts are underway to establish security and stability in Syria," Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oncu Keceli said in a post on X. "At this critical juncture, the targeting of security forces could undermine the efforts to lead Syria into the future in unity and solidarity.'
