US officials entered the surging conflict between Israel and Lebanon Monday, imposing sanctions on a Lebanese bank linked to Hezbollah./ It came as Israel identified what it said were the leaders of an Iran-backed Hezbollah tech project which has prompted a series of air strikes./ Tensions in ...
Fighters with the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah party parade in a suburb of Beirut in May 2019 (AFP Photo/Anwar AMRO)/ Washington (AFP) - The United States on Thursday announced sanctions in Lebanon and Oman aimed at shutting down financing to the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah and the Palestinian ...
The U.S. designated Lebanon-based Jammal Trust Bank a "global " Thursday over its ties to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, one day after it slapped sanctions on networks it claimed facilitated "tens of millions of dollars' worth" of activities that benefited Iran’s military and regime./ ...
Lebanon’s central bank said it would guarantee all “legitimate deposits” in the newly sanctioned Jammal Trust Bank, which on Friday rejected U.S. allegations that it helps to fund Iran-backed Hezbollah./ FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks following a meeting of the UN ...
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department on Thursday targeted a Lebanese bank the Trump administration calls the “bank of choice” of Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, as part of a maximum pressure campaign against Tehran. The U.S., in partnership with Oman, also announced sanctions against four ...
17PM [Updated: Fri Aug 30, 2019 04:18PM ]/ People walk past a branch of Jammal Trust Bank in the Beirut's Hamra street on August 30, 2019, in the Lebanese capital. (Photo by AFP)/ The administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on a Lebanon-based bank and its subsidiaries ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...
A senior Palestinian official said Khalil al-Hayya (R) was likely to be in Turkey (file photo)/ The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said. Qatar’s foreign ministry ...
A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street/ An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say. Earlier in ...
Axios reported last week that a “nuclear weapons research facility“ at Parchin was hit in late October/ Israel’s prime minister says it hit part of Iran’s nuclear programme last month, despite pleas from the US not to do so during the strikes it carried out in response to a missile attack. “It’s ...
People living in Hassakeh now rely on deliveries of water transported by tanker/ Turkish air strikes in drought-struck north-east Syria have cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people, in what experts say may be a violation of international law. Turkey carried out ...