Lebanese Transport Minister Ali Hamieh told Reuters Friday’s strike on the Syrian border hit inside Lebanese territory near the crossing, creating a 12-feet-wide crater.
The killings were the latest in a two-week surge of Israeli attacks on militant targets in Lebanon, amid a conflict spreading from Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, and within Israel.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah has yet to issue any statement on the status of Nasrallah. Israeli army spokesperson wrote on X, “eliminated Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization.”
Hezbollah said Wednesday it attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets, the first strike since pager blasts in Lebanon wounded thousands, escalating fears of Middle-east war.
The cause of the Beirut port explosion was ammonium nitrate from a ship abandoned in 2013. Hazardous material is shipped across the world daily — often illegally.
The explosion in Beirut couldn’t have come at a worse time for Lebanon, which is enduring its deepest political and financial crisis since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990.
Customs officials asked judicial authorities at least twice since 2014 to issue orders for the highly inflammable substance to be confiscated or re-exported.
I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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