In pictures – Syrians around the world celebrate the ousting of Assad
Reuters Syrians around the world are celebrating following news of the ousting of the Assad regime. Reuters photographers captured some of them… Syrians living in Turkey celebrate with opposition flags after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in front of the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on 8th December, 2024. PICTURE: […]
Israeli strike destroys Ottoman-era building near Baalbek ruins
Baalbek, Lebanon Reuters An Israeli airstrike has destroyed an Ottoman-era building just a stone’s throw from the UNESCO-listed temples of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, the closest Israel has come yet to striking one of Lebanon’s most treasured archaeological sites. Heaps of grey masonry and twisted metal lay on Thursday next to a burnt-out bus just […]
Israel strikes on Lebanon kill 40 people around Baalbek, health ministry says
Updated: 10am (AEDT) Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 40 people around the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, according to the country’s health ministry, and at dusk more strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs. Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have exchanged fire for over a year in parallel with the […]
Israel orders evacuation of more southern Lebanese towns
Beirut, Lebanon/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israel ordered more evacuations and targeted a new location in northern Lebanon on Saturday, as a third UN peacekeeper was wounded in Israel’s escalating conflict with Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. At least five people were killed and 15 wounded in Israeli strikes across three different areas in Lebanon, a security source […]
Syrians in Lebanon fear unprecedented restrictions, deportations
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Reuters The soldiers came before daybreak, singling out the Syrian men without residence permits from the tattered camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. As toddlers wailed around them, Mona, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon for a decade, watched Lebanese troops shuffle her brother onto a truck headed for the Syrian border. Thirteen years […]
Israeli jets hit Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley for a second day
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Israeli warplanes struck deep into Lebanon for a second consecutive day on Tuesday, hitting a facility belonging to Hezbollah in the Bekaa Valley, sources in Lebanon said. Two Hezbollah members from the Bekaa Valley were killed, the Iran-backed group said in a statement late on Tuesday. Civil defence members walk on the […]
Syrian refugees cling on in Turkey, Lebanon as fears over coerced returns grow
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters The first Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return home under a new repatriation scheme will leave on Wednesday, but few in worn-down camps in the central Bekaa Valley said they would sign up. Rights groups fear the programme may not be as voluntary as it purports to be, at a time when […]
Community oven serves up meals, and dignity, in blast-hit Beirut
Amman, Jordan Thomson Reuters Foundation When a huge blast tore through Beirut on 4th August, Rawda Mazloum decided to move the giant oven she was using to cook for refugees in the Bekaa Valley to assist residents of the devastated capital. Today, the stove that has helped feed thousands of refugees and rehabilitate former fighters […]