Category: Lebanon
Beast in the Middle East! Snow blankets Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and Syria amid freezing temperatures caused by a weakened polar vortex
Snow falls in Jerusalem over the Dome of the Rock for the first time in years after a polar vortex brought freezing conditions across many…
Gantz: Hezbollah will be ‘fatally wounded’ if Israel drawn into a war in Lebanon
Defense minister warns of possible difficult days for home front after terror group head Nasrallah said it will bomb Israeli cities in response to any…
Prominent Hezbollah critic shot dead, Lebanese security official says
Lokman Slim, who went missing Wednesday evening en route to Beirut, was regularly criticized by terror group’s supporters, media A prominent Lebanese publisher and vocal…
Amid crisis, Hezbollah ‘bank’ a lifeline for some, and a boon for terror group
Operating under Islamic rules forbidding interest, the al-Qard al-Hasan association provides hundreds of thousands of micro-loans while entrenching support among poor Shiites BEIRUT, Lebanon —…
When Israel and Arab nations unite, world should take note, says UN ambassador
(December 29, 2020 / JNS) Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan reflected on 2020 and how “Israel’s future looks brighter than ever” in his address on…
Nasrallah claims Saudi-Israeli plot to kill him; says precision missiles doubled
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has doubled the number of its precision missiles over the past year, the terror group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday. In a four-hour…
Cabinet okays tax revenues transfer to Abbas, holds back some for ‘pay to slay’ Ministers decide to withhold some NIS 600 million out of 2.4 billion total to compensate for PA payments to terrorists and their families
The security cabinet authorized late Sunday the transfer of some NIS 2.4 billion ($725 million) in tax revenues that Israel collects on behalf of the…
Jordan’s King Abdullah and Palestinian leader Abbas meet, hope Biden revives peace process
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah on Sunday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and both leaders set high hopes that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden…
