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    Sheikh Naim Qassem Elected As New Hezbollah Chief 

    Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem has been elected as the new chief of the Lebanese movement after his predecessor Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated by Israel in Beirut last month.

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    Israel Claims Killing Yahya Sinwar in Gaza

    Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who stunned Israel and the world as a mastermind of the 2023 raid on Israel that set off the devastating Gaza war was killed by Israel’s military on Thursday. He was 61.

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    Only Solution Is Ceasefire Because We Won’t Be Defeated: Naim Qassem

    In his speech, third televised address since the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s deputy leader reflected more confidence in the collective leadership of Hezbollah.

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    Hezbollah Strikes Military Base Deep Inside Israel; Scores Killed, Injured

    The Hezbollah attack in Binyamina shows that attacking Lebanon carries a heavy price for Israelis too, according to Gideon Levy, Israeli political analyst.

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    Israeli strike on hospital tent camp ignites a fire that burns dozens

    An Israeli airstrike on a hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip early Monday killed at least four people and sent flames sweeping through a packed tent camp for people displaced by the war, leaving more than two dozen

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    Netanyahu threatens Lebanon with destruction ‘like Gaza’

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned  Lebanon Tuesday it could face destruction “like Gaza” as Israel ramps up its ground offensive against Hezbollah along the southern section of the  Lebanese coast.

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    22 killed in Israeli strikes on central Beirut

    Israel has repeatedly pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs over the last two weeks but Thursday’s raid was only the third time the city center has been targeted killing an unspecified number of civilians.

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    MBS's Crackdown: A Saudi Mother Sentenced For 34 Years For Tweeting

    A Saudi university student who had returned home for a vacation was sentenced to 34 years in prison for following and retweeting dissidents and activists on her personal Twitter account. 

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    Israel, Turkey Restore Full Diplomatic Ties

    Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on Wednesday and agreed on reinstating their respective ambassadors and general consuls, thus restoring full diplomatic ties.

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    Russia To Launch Iran’s Most Advanced Monitoring Satellite

    Russia is set to launch an advanced satellite on behalf of Iran on 9 August, substantially boosting Iran’s current space capabilities, according to a statement by Roscosmos space agency.

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    Hezbollah Does Not Rule Out ‘War’ With Israel Over Disputed Gas Field

    The Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah does not rule out going to war with Israel over the regime’s attempts at impinging on Lebanon’s natural resources.

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    Israel wants US settle maritime row with Lebanon before Hezbollah deadline: Report

    According to the military affairs correspondent of Israel’s Channel 12, Tel Aviv is pressuring the US to finalize an agreement over their maritime border with Lebanon before the September deadline given by Hezbollah

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    Amid Waves of Progress, Why is Saudi Scared of 'Moderate' Cleric Salman al-Ouda?

    Independent Saudi researcher, Mohanna Alhubail, tweeted: “All political arrests are hurtful and go against conscience, but the arrest of this imam, who inspires thought [about] Islamic life is a double distress.”

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    Destroyed Gaza airport symbolises grounded peace hopes

    The opening of the Palestinians’ first airport, in the presence of US president Bill Clinton, was a symbol of the hopes for independence and peace kindled by the Oslo accords.

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    'US in talks with UK, France for ‘much stronger’ attack on Syria'

    US National Security Adviser John Bolton says his country has been in talks with Britain and France to orchestrate a military strike on Syria that will be “much stronger” than the joint operation.

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    New UN rights chief urges accountability in Yemen

    The United Nations human rights boss Michelle Bachelet has called on Saudi Arabia to hold to account the perpetrators of deadly airstrikes on civilians in Yemen.

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    Why Is Basra Burning and who Is Behind the Unrest

    The deadly unrest, led mostly by masked men, has left Iraq facing its latest political and security crisis as the country struggles to regain its feet after the war with Daesh.

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    US sends Iran messages 'every day' to begin negotiations: Rouhani

    The United States constantly sends messages to Iran to begin negotiations, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech broadcast on state television.

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    Tehran summit ends with call for Idlib rebels to lay down arms

    Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran on Friday discussed a step-by-step "stabilisation" in Syria's Idlib, with a possibility of peace with some rebel groups, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after the talks.

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    Israel Reveals Size Of Its War Against Iran In Syria

    With little sign of Iran backing down from what it considers to be anti-terrorism mission Israel's military leadership has suggested it may take action, and go even further than before.

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    Saudi seeks death penalty for prominent cleric: reports

    Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor sought the death penalty against prominent cleric Sheikh Salman al Awda at the start of his trial Tuesday in Riyadh, a year after his arrest, media said.

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    Trump wanted Assad assassinated: Woodward

    A new book has revealed that US President Donald Trump allegedly demanded the assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after a 2017 chemical attack that Washington.

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    ‘Israel admits bombing Syria 200 times in 2 years’

    A senior Israeli official says the Tel Aviv regime has launched hundreds of strikes against various targets inside conflict-plagued Syria in the last two years.

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    Lebanon is balancing a tightrope — and its position is precarious

    FACING possible invasion from both Britain and Germany in 1940 and determined to remain neutral, the Irish government in Dublin asked one of its senior ministers to draft a memoran.

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