Source: Al Arabiya
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Tuesday 24 January 2023 15:50:15
Is Luka Modric Signing with Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr?
Real Madrid midfielder Luca Modric has reportedly agreed to join Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr football club, according to a Saudi newspaper report.
Al Nassr has “obtained the signature” of the Croatian star, Alyaum reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
“The deal will be announced very soon,” the newspaper cited the sources as saying.
As the news spread, on Tuesday, searches relating to Modric signing with Al Nassr exceeded 20,000, according to Google Trends.
Modric, 37, has been at Real Madrid since 2012. His contract with the Spanish giants is set to expire at the end of the current season, and there have been conflicting reports regarding his future with Los Blancos.
Earlier this month, Spanish newspaper Marca reported that Modric planned to stay at Real Madrid, but Spanish sports journalist Jose Manuel Moreno wrote on Twitter on Monday that the midfielder will not renew his contract and that the current season will be his last with the club.
Modric has had a successful tenure with Real Madrid, playing in over 400 matches and winning five Champions League titles and three La Liga titles.
In 2018, he won the Ballon d’Or award after leading Croatia to a runners-up place in that year’s World Cup. Most recently, he led Croatia to a third-place finish in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Al Nassr is one of the most successful clubs in Saudi Arabia, having won the country's top flight nine times, the most recent of which was in 2019.
Last month, the club signed Cristiano Ronaldo, a former teammate of Modric at Real Madrid, on a 2-1/2 year deal reportedly worth over 200 million euros ($216.28 million).
