Israelis are wondering whether President Joe Biden’s decision to deploy two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean is meant to deter Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists from attacking Israel from Lebanon — or to deter Israel from attacking first.
Israel has began to evacuate the town of Kiryat Shmona, the northernmost urban area in Israel, because of the possibility of war with the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Hamas terrorists who perpetrated the October 7 atrocities against Israeli civilians were allegedly pumped up with a drug called Captagon.
Angry mobs throughout the Middle East and North Africa targeted Israeli, American, French, and other Western embassies on Tuesday night.
Video circulating online appears to capture Israeli Air Force (IAF) targetting Hezbollah bases amid skirmishes on their northern border.
Israeli sailor Kamai Achiel, 18, was killed Sunday near the country’s border with Lebanon in what is being reported as an “equipment malfunction” that also injured seven other members of the navy.
Entering into battle against Israel would result in Lebanon plunging into “the Dark Ages,” according to Lebanon’s Minister of Economy.
Israelis in the northern part of the country, near the border with Lebanon, had been warned to descend into bomb shelters as sirens have been sounding warnings indicating a large attack of drones.
Mazen Ahmed, director of investments and remittances at the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), said on Thursday that cash withdrawals and transactions using U.S. dollars will be banned effective January 1, 2024.
Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant revealed Monday that Iran is building an air base in Lebanon with the purpose of targeting Israel.
A drag show in Lebanon’s capital of Beirut was shut down by “an angry crowd of conservative Christians screaming homophobic chants.”
Revelations about journalists with French state media outlet France 24 has seen a second figure pushed out for his antisemitic tweets.
The Moscow Times reported on Wednesday that illegal copies of the international blockbuster hit film Barbie have begun appearing in Russian movie theaters despite American sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.
One of history’s biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked Beirut on August 4, 2020, destroying swathes of the Lebanese capital, killing more than 220 people and injuring at least 6,500.
Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations.
A stray dog was carrying a black nylon bag containing a baby through the streets of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
An illegal alien, convicted in 2002 of providing material support to the Islamic terrorist group known as Hezbollah, secured early “compassionate release” from federal prison thanks to the “First Step Act” — approved in 2018 by the then-Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by former President Donald Trump.
Salman Rushdie attended a New York gala in his first public appearance since a knife attack that nearly took his life last year.
A Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the lone suspect in a 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue will go on trial Monday.
Hundreds of protesters, including large numbers of retired soldiers and police, marched in downtown Beirut on Wednesday to protest Lebanon’s deteriorating economy. When the protesters attempted to breach a fence and storm the government headquarters building, security forces used tear gas to disperse them, and some of the demonstrators responded by throwing rocks.
The Irish Defence Forces’ decision to not consider a prominent atheist campaigner for the position of army chaplain was discrimination, a legal body in the country has ruled.
Palestinian schools run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees — to which President Joe Biden has given almost a billion dollars since entering office — still teach inciting content against Israel, including “regularly calling for the murder of Jews,” a new
NEW YORK (AP) – A Lebanese and Belgian citizen considered a key financier of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah was arrested Friday in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, federal authorities said.
A crowd of several dozen angry protesters went on a rampage in Beirut on Thursday, blocking roads and vandalizing bank offices to protest the collapsing Lebanese economy and rules which prevent depositors from withdrawing their money.
Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since a radical Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by a decades-old Iranian fatwa left him near death.
Lebanon is the target of “a systematic and calculated strategy by Iran and its minions to empty the country of its Christians,” Habib C. Malik told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
As Christmas approaches in the Middle East, persecuted Christians seeking to rebuild after the Islamic State genocide need help to build businesses, feed their families, and stay in their home communities, Father Benedict Kiely, the founder of the church charity Nasarean, told Breitbart News this week.
Reports this weekend indicated that Lebanese citizens are increasingly turning to sit-in blockades, and outright armed robbery, to pry their savings out of frozen bank accounts as the national economy continues its trajectory toward total collapse.
UN peacekeepers in Lebanon urged Beirut to ensure a “speedy” investigation into an Irish soldier’s shooting death near the Israeli border.
The Hamas terror group praised an 11-year-old table tennis player from Lebanon for pulling out of tournament in Portugal on Saturday rather than play against an Israeli contestant.
A squabble between drug gangs in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh escalated into a wild gun battle on Monday, with shots fired into a car dealership and a Mercedes four-wheel-drive vehicle catching fire.
UK-based company Energean announced Monday it has made another natural gas discovery at its “Zeus” exploration off the coast of Israel.
89-year-old Michel Aoun, president of Lebanon since 2016, vacated his office on Sunday with no successor standing by. Aoun’s departure leaves a country in even more turmoil, as one of his final acts was accepting the resignation of interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government.
Israel and Lebanon on Thursday signed a controversial U.S.-mediated maritime deal, which Prime Minister Yair Lapid hailed as the first time an enemy state had formally declared recognition of the State of Israel.
British-Greek gas producer Energean has begun production at the Karish offshore natural field, a day before the controversial U.S.-brokered maritime deal will be signed between Israel and Lebanon.
The Israeli High Court of Justice on Sunday unanimously rejected all petitions filed against the controversial maritime border deal with Lebanon, paving the way for the signing of U.S.-mediated agreement, which has been deemed “extremely dangerous” by its opponents.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed the current Israeli premier Yair Lapid for agreeing to a U.S.-drafted maritime border agreement with Lebanon that was a “surrender to Hezbollah.”
President Joe Biden on Tuesday congratulated Prime Minister Yair Lapid for reaching a maritime border agreement with Lebanon, telling the Israeli premier he was “making history.”
Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday said Israel and Lebanon had reached a “historic” agreement to resolve a decades-long maritime border dispute, saying it would prove a boon to the Israeli economy.
The Biden administration has been accused of pressuring Israel to concede to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group’s demands in resolving a maritime border dispute between Israel and its neighboring state Lebanon.
