Middle East / Levant

Assad, 54, started looking tired about 30 minutes into his speech, stopping twice for a water break.

Between 500 and 600 Azerbaijani Jews marched along the Old City of Jaffa and then demonstrated outside of the Armenian Cultural Center and the Armenian Church. 

Hezbollah’s weapons have nothing to do with fighting Israel or protecting Lebanon, and everything to do with maintaining the group’s grip on power in Lebanon, according to Lebanese MP Wehbe Katicha.

“The status quo in Lebanon is unacceptable,” says U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft. “Now is the time to ... enable the [peacekeeping] mission to fully achieve what it was set out to accomplish.”

Greece, Israel, and Cyprus have established an alliance to counter Turkey. Greece and Cyprus are historic adversaries of Turkey.

At least two of the five have each already been convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

In addition to Democrats, reportedly, the U.S. State and U.S. Defense Departments have been for continuing the aid, while many in the White House have advocated halting it.

The last time it was at this high level of preparedness was during the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

Israel and Lebanon have been fighting for decades over 860 square miles of water in which potential natural gas reserves await.

Under the current law, these Cabinet members will now continue to serve as a caretaker government until the next government is formed.

Lebanon has been looking for the “smoking gun” that will prove Hezbollah’s responsibility for the ammonia nitrate cargo that was stored in the port and which exploded and caused destruction and death throughout the Lebanese capital.

Najm supported the protests in 2019–2020.

Lebanese President Michel: Officials are investigating the “possibility of external interference through a rocket, or bomb, or other act.”

“I feel as if I were reborn today,” the father of the family says. “I am so happy to have met all my children and grandchildren.”

Iran's military forces are spread out over 125 locations in Syria, including on the border with Israel.

The leaders of the Dubai congregation say they represent a growing trend in the acceptance of the Jewish State among its more benign neighbors in the region.

Scope Ratings has ranked Turkey as among its “Risky-3” economies most at risk of a balance of payments crisis.

It is likely the rumor of Nasrallah's escape is just that: a rumor. But it's also indicative of where the thoughts of the Arab world are heading.

The protesters in inside "revolution headquarters" burned documents and pictures of Lebanese President Michel Aoun, whom they blame, alongside Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, for the country's years of political and economic crises.

The American Jewish Committee called on former Prime Minister Carl Bildt to apologize.

Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, said Elliott Abrams “will have little time to settle in,” citing the upcoming deadline to extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.

All the Iranian media spoke of two Iranian planes filled with aid for disaster-struck Beirut. Was there a third Iranian plane? What did it carry?

The man who ran the Port of Beirut is...

The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality lit up its building façade on Wednesday evening with the colors of the Lebanese flag in solidarity with the Lebanese...

Another video from the Beirut tragedy, this one with a particularly sad ending.

Several Israeli government agencies have offered to send humanitarian aid to the neighbor up north.

Israel offered its assistance to its northern neighbor shortly after two massive explosions rocked the Port of Beirut.

The fee must be disbursed in Syrian pounds according to the official exchange rate.

“There were no casualties ... firefighters are trying to contain the fire,” stated Iranian TV • Investigation is underway.

The blast, which registered a 4.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, also destroyed both Lebanon's wheat and medicine storage facilities which were located at the harbor.