Source: The National
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
Monday 6 January 2020 13:17:22
Esmail Qaani Threatens Retaliation for Soleimani's Death
It follows the most significant confrontation between Tehran and Washington in decades, escalating tensions in the region, especially in Iraq, where Gen Suleimani was killed.
"God the almighty has promised to get his revenge … Certainly actions will be taken," he said in an interview with Iranian state television that aired on Monday.
The Quds Forces is a unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and it oversees an array of militant proxies and organises Iran’s operations in the region.
Washington has sanctioned Qanni since 2012 for his work funding the Quds Force operations around the world, including its work with proxies in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.
"We promise to continue down martyr Suleimani's path as firmly as before with help of God, and in return for his martyrdom we aim to get rid of America from the region," Qanni said.
Suleimani’s daughter, Zainab, joined Qanni in threatening US military forces stationed in the region while speaking to hundreds of thousands of supporters in Tehran.
“The families of US soldiers in the Middle East will spend their days waiting for the death of their children," she said to the crowd as they cheered.
The killing came amid months of back-and-forth attacks that have put the wider Middle East on edge.
US President Donald Trump vowed on Twitter that Washington will strike back at 52 targets “very fast and very hard" if Tehran took any steps against their troops in the region.
"If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way … and without hesitation!" Trump said on Twitter.
Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with top officials in Tehran, led prayers in a state funeral for Suleimani on Monday.
Tehran also said it has abandoned the remaining limits of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in response to the killing.
Iraq's parliament responded by voting on Sunday to oust US troops from the country.
Trump also threatened to sanctions against Baghdad if US forces were required to leave, Iraq's government would have to pay Washington for the cost of a "very extraordinarily expensive" airbase there.