Middle East

BEIRUT: Lebanon rejects President Trump’s claims that the Tuesday’s massive blast in Beirut was caused by enemy action rather than an industrial incident. Lebanon announced that there has been no indication of attack after Trump claimed the Beirut explosion was caused by a bomb, the Newsweek reported. “As far as …

BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities have said at least 100 people have been killed and more than 4,000 wounded in a massive explosion at the port in the capital, Beirut. Beirut governor Marwan Abboud later told a local radio station that more than 100 people remain missing, including several firefighters, the newspaper …

BEIRUT: Following the explosion in Beirut on Tuesday, radar images of “unusual patrols and reconnaissance operations” of four US Navy spy planes on the Lebanon-Syria coastline were released. Some radar images of unusual patrols and reconnaissance operations of four US Navy spy planes on the Lebanon-Syria coastline were released after …

TEHRAN: Israeli spy satellite Ofek-16 is rotating around itself at high speed, an informed source said, noting that receiving high-quality images by the satellite is an untrue claim by Israeli officials. Referring to the launch of the spying satellite Ofek-16 on July 6 by Israel, the source told FNA, “Despite …

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says all Israeli claims about border clashes with the movement’s fighters earlier on Monday are fake and aimed to boost the morale of Israeli forces by fabricating fictitious victories. Hezbollah’s Monday statement came after Israeli and Western media outlets claimed that the regime’s forces had …

TEL AVIV: Israel’s Public Security Minister, Amir Ohana, warned on Sunday that violent clashes at demonstrations are likely to end in bloodshed. “There is a feeling and high probability that it will end in bloodshed,” Ohana told public broadcaster Kan, adding, “I am really worried by the hate in the …

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Taji military base, which is occupied by American forces, has been attacked by at least three Katyusha rockets, the Iraqi military said. No casualties have been reported yet, but there have been material damages, a Monday statement by the Iraqi military said. The so-called US-led coalition has also …

BEIRUT: Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon has visited one of the passengers who was seriously injured during the recent harassment of an Iranian aircraft by two US warplanes. Mohammad Jalal Firouznia, along with the Iranian cultural attaché in Lebanon Abbas Khamehyar, on Saturday visited one of the passengers hospitalized in the …

TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign minister says the new world order, which will emerge following the deadly coronavirus pandemic, will not be of a Western type. Speaking in a live Instagram conversation with English-speaking audience from Tehran on Monday, Mohammad Javad Zarif said the past 30 years have constituted one of the …

TEHRAN: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that its forces have started the final stage of the ‘Great Prophet-14’ military drill in the south of the country. The drill is being conducted jointly by Navy and Aerospace forces of the IRGC in the Hormozgan province. According to the statement, …