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Israel-Hamas war latest: With nearly 700 killed in a week, Lebanon fears Gaza-level violence

YoopyaSeptember 27, 2024September 27, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 27, 2024September 27, 20240489

Nearly 700 people have been killed in Lebanon this week, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. Israel has dramatically escalated strikes, saying it is targeting Hezbollah’s military...

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Israel and Hezbollah carry out new attacks amid fears of wider conflict

YoopyaSeptember 24, 2024September 24, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 24, 2024September 24, 20240644

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Israel struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and said it would keep up intense pressure on its foe, which said...

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Lebanon pager attacks: the weaponisation of everything has begun

YoopyaSeptember 21, 2024September 21, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 21, 2024September 21, 20240380

The attacks on pagers and walkie talkies (and possibly even solar panels) in Lebanon is one of those events that many have speculated was on the horizon: the...

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Pager attack on Hezbollah was a sophisticated ‘booby-trap’ operation − it was also illegal

YoopyaSeptember 19, 2024September 19, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 19, 2024September 19, 20240426

The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was ingenious – but was it legal? Certainly, there are those...

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Will the exploding pager attack be the spark that ignites an Israel-Hezbollah war?

YoopyaSeptember 18, 2024September 18, 2024

by YoopyaSeptember 18, 2024September 18, 20240459

The alleged Israeli attack on members of Hezbollah via their pagers is another ominous development propelling the Middle East towards a full-scale regional war. It...

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Crime and gangs: the path to battle for Australia’s Islamist radicals

YoopyaOctober 6, 2014July 15, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 6, 2014July 15, 202302

(Reuters) – The children of refugees who fled Lebanon’s civil war for peaceful Australia in the 1970s form a majority of Australian militants fighting in...

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Middle East: Lebanese patriarch visits disparate Israel flocks

YoopyaMay 28, 2014July 19, 2023

by YoopyaMay 28, 2014July 19, 202303

KUFR BIRIM, Israel (AP) — The head of Lebanon’s largest group of Christians, the Maronite Catholics, was making two politically charged stops Wednesday in his...

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Suicide bombers target Iranian centre in Beirut, kill four

YoopyaFebruary 19, 2014October 30, 2023

by YoopyaFebruary 19, 2014October 30, 202305

(Reuters) – A twin suicide bombing hit the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday during the morning rush hour, killing at least four people...

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Hezbollah says commander killed in Beirut, blames Israel

YoopyaDecember 4, 2013February 3, 2024

by YoopyaDecember 4, 2013February 3, 202404

(Reuters) – Lebanon’s Shi’ite militant Hezbollah group said on Wednesday one of its commanders was killed outside his Beirut home in an overnight attack it...

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Two blasts target Iranian embassy in Beirut, kill 18

YoopyaNovember 19, 2013February 3, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 19, 2013February 3, 2024015

(Reuters) – Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy hit the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday killing 18 people and damaging buildings around the embassy compound,...