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June 25, 2024
Blinken and Gallant discuss transition to the next phase of the war in Gaza
By Ben Wedeman MARJAYOUN — In the town of Marjayoun in southern Lebanon, around five miles north of the Israeli border, the main square seems almost abandoned.A few men play billiards in a storefront nestled in a building crowned with life-sized statues of the Virgin Mary and Saint Charbel, a revered Lebanese saint.They don’t want to talk about the wars and rumors of war that for decades have plagued this predominantly Christian town near the border.Journalists are a bother, one grumbles, and goes back to the game.On the other side of the square, a woman in her thirties comes out of a grocery store with a small bag.“Marjayoun is very nice, it’s fantastic,” the woman, Claude, tells me. “But the shelling scares us.” That’s all she wants to say.Throughout the day, occasional...
June 24, 2024
Residents along Lebanon’s border with Israel fear another war
June 24, 2024
Israeli military straps injured Palestinian man to hood of jeep
June 24, 2024
Intense fighting in Rafah is 'winding down', says Netanyahu
June 22, 2024
Red Cross says 22 killed in strike near its Gaza office
June 21, 2024
3,300-year-old ship and its cargo discovered deep in Mediterranean
June 17, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu disbands Israeli war cabinet
June 16, 2024
Israel announces limited military pause to increase Gaza aid
STOCKHOLM — Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday, Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in a mass execution in the 1980s while Iran released two Swedes being held there, Reuters reported.
The prisoner swap was mediated by Oman, the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
“Omani efforts resulted in the two sides agreeing on a mutual release, as those released were transferred from Tehran and Stockholm,” it said.
Sweden had freed convicted former Iranian official Hamid Noury, Iran’s top human rights official said on X. Noury, who had been convicted for his part in a mass execution of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, would be back in Iran in a few hours, the official added.
Separately, Swedish Prime Minister...
June 15, 2024
Sweden and Iran exchange prisoners in breakthrough deal, officials say
June 15, 2024
Full-blown Israel-Hezbollah war appears to be more likely, analysts say
