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2 months ago | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Yara Malka
⚡Jordanian national carrier Royal Jordanian has announced that it has resumed flights between Amman and Damascus, interrupted for 13 years, reports AFP. After an initial flight on Friday, the company said it would initially operate four flights a week to the Syrian capital. “The company plans to increase to one flight a day next April,” Royal Jordanian CEO Samer Al-Majali said in a statement. International flights resumed on Jan.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Yara Malka
In southern Lebanon, the Israeli army carried out heavy explosions this morning in Bani Hayyan (Marjayoun). An Israeli tank stationed in Maroun al-Ras (Bint Jbeil) also targeted a house near Bint Jbeil. Yesterday had been a particularly tense day, and after 10 p.m., Israel blew up houses in Houla and near Wadi Slouki, in the same district.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Yara Malka
What you need to know In Lebanon, MPs elect the president. The parliamentary election session scheduled for 11 a.m. is the first since June 2023, and the 13th since Michel Aoun's term of office ended on Oct. 31, 2022. It takes place against a backdrop of severe economic and financial crisis, and a 60-day truce between Hezbollah and Israel.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Tasnim Chaaban |Yara Malka
L'Orient Today / By Tasnim Chaaban, Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah ABDALLAH, Yara Malka, 08 November 2024 09:55 What you need to know F-15 fighter jets arrived in the Middle East yesterday, the U.S. military announced. Israel denounces violence against supporters after a football match in Amsterdam. Israel's new Defense Minister was sworn into parliament.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Yara Malka
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, warned Israel on Monday of “bitter consequences” after its Saturday strikes on military sites in Iran, according to the Tasnim news agency, reports AFP.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Yara Malka |Muntasser Abdallah
Yesterday evening, the Israeli army had declared areas around some towns in northern Israel closed to the public, after carrying out a security assessment, due to Hezbollah rocket and missile fire from Lebanon, Reuters reports. It announced that closed military zones along the border with Lebanon would now include Zar'it, Shomera, Shtula, Netu'a and Even Menachem.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Ghadir Hamadi |Muntasser Abdallah |Yara Malka
⚡ The recent Israeli strike in Kafra, in southern Lebanon's Bint Jbeil district, killed two Lebanese Army soldiers and wounded three others, according to a security source cited by our correspondent. The strike targeted a building located at a close distance from an army checkpoint. The army has neither released a statement nor responded to request for comment on the matter.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Malek Jeddah |Muntasser Abdallah |Sarah Abdallah |Yara Malka
On Sunday night and Monday morning, in south Lebanon:After 10:00:p.m. Israeli jets attacked Naqoura (Sour). The town of Khiam (Marjayoun) was heavily bombarded by Israeli artillery as well as its surroundings. Between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m., Israel targeted several locations. Israeli airstrikes targeted: Qabrikha, Khiam, Mais al-Jabal, Kafr Kila (Marjayoun), the town of Bint Jbeil, Ainata (Bint Jbeil), Ghassanieh (Saida), Yarine, Zebqine, Janata, Naqoura (Sour).
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Yara Malka
L’Orient Today journalist Yara Malka recalls how a turn in the road and a window left open, among other minor and seemingly insignificant coincidences, were the difference between life and death on the day of the Beirut port blast. L'Orient Today / By Yara Malka, 04 August 2024 18:07 August 2023: Broken clockIt was August 2023, and the scorching late-summer sun had finally set on my friends’ Mar Mikhael apartment.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Yara Malka
On the fair evening of Friday, May 24, some 30 people convened from Lebanon’s art scene around a pink neon “TAP” sign in an alley near Beirut’s Charles Helou Highway. The flickering round sign backdropped the smoggy capital’s dusk in front of Makhlouf restaurant. The air smelled of fresh saj sandwiches with an undertone of car exhaust from the highway.
