The battle for votes in Israel: How social media was used to influence voters
An-Nahar: How social media and modern technologies such as artificial intelligence were used to influence voters in the Israeli elections and counter news…
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4854 in English · 80 original-language storiesAn-Nahar: How social media and modern technologies such as artificial intelligence were used to influence voters in the Israeli elections and counter news…
An-Nahar: In a new allusion to unsubstantiated allegations of operations…
Naharnet: Syria on Tuesday condemned deadly strikes on the country's south a day earlier that Jordan said killed more than 20 jihadists as retaliation for a gun attack on a church. In the worst crisis between the neighbors since the ouster…
Lebanon Debate: Suspected targeting of a military base... London speaks of possible involvement…
Lebanon Debate: Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province police: Gunmen who fired at a police station in the city of Khash fled after a clash…
Naharnet: Qatar on Tuesday said Iran must show good faith with its neighbors to prevent further escalation, following renewed efforts to end the U.S.-Iran war. The comments came a day after senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and…
Lebanon Debate: Iran enters the heart of the Israeli elections... banners supporting Zamir outside…
Naharnet: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chaired a meeting in Riyadh Tuesday where he and his council of ministers reviewed talks held in Tehran with the Mecca alliance a day earlier, state media reported. "The council reviewed the…
Naharnet: Yemen's Houthis said they targeted Saudi Arabia's biggest oil refinery, as well as the defense ministry in Riyadh on Tuesday, as blasts shook the capital of the world's top crude exporter. Saudi Arabia, the Middle East's largest…
Al Jadeed: Netanyahu: There are 4 hours left to save…
Lebanon Debate: He crossed the border into Israel and then tried to seize a soldier’s weapon... New details about the young man…
Lebanon Debate: Division in Israel... Bennett and Eisenkot are vying for the same vote…
Yasour: Egyptian actor Amr Waked: An Iranian official calls for the Zionists to withdraw from Arab lands. Here, Iran’s position reveals the depth of Arab officials’ collusion; this is a message to all the peoples of the region. Iran is paying the price for this demand on behalf of the Arab peoples, whose rulers take the money but do not pay it. So if an Arab official…
Ad-Diyar: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stressed, in a speech at the eighth summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow, the need to strengthen cooperation among countries amid geopolitical shifts and unprecedented challenges facing…
MTV Lebanon: Reuters: Houthis claim to have attacked Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport with a…
L'Orient Today: A UN commission reports Israel continued actions in Gaza causing over 1,565 deaths since the October 2025 cease-fire, highlighting serious human rights…
Lebanon 24: Palmer Luckey, founder of the American defense manufacturing company Anduril, pledges to bring computer manufacturing back to the United States—not merely through assembly, but by producing every component individually, including components currently made exclusively in China, through a new computer called "BlueChip" that it is developing…
Lebanon 24: An Israeli man aged about 94 died on Tuesday after collapsing at the entrance to the building where he lived in the city of Ramat Gan, after returning from voting in the election with his daughter, according to the Israeli organization “ZAKA.” Advertisement Two volunteers with the organization said that the man collapsed during…
Lebanon 24: سجّلت الانتخابات التشريعية الإسرائيلية إقبالاً مرتفعاً منذ ساعات الصباح، مع وصول نسبة المشاركة إلى 44.9% عند الثانية ظهراً، وهي الأعلى لهذا التوقيت في سجلات لجنة الانتخابات الممتدة إلى عام 1973، في يوم شهد توقيفات بشبهة رشى انتخابية وحوادث أمنية وشكاوى من…
Ad-Diyar: A French diplomatic source confirmed that the number two at the French embassy in Tehran was subjected to intimidation early this October “by individuals who presented themselves as belonging to the Iranian security forces.” The source, …
Lebanon 24: Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington: The Houthi war economy, based on extortion and front companies…
Lebanon Debate: “Established to isolate and attack Israel”... Colombia withdraws from the group…
An-Nahar: An analysis of the Israeli election scene and its impact on Palestinians inside Israel, with statements by Azmi Hakim on the security and political situation…
Lebanon Debate: Bahrain’s representative to the Security Council: Iran’s continued evasion of its international…
Lebanon Debate: Bahrain’s representative to the Security Council: Iran has not fulfilled its obligations to the IAEA for more than 7…
CH23: Did the countries of the Mecca Agreement for joint defense surrender early—and far too early—instead of engaging in a serious defense of the Saudis against Houthi attacks launched from Yemen? And did Iran succeed in bringing down this alliance early—and far too early—after drawing Ankara, Riyadh and Islamabad together, to…
MTV Lebanon: Israeli soldiers stationed in southern Lebanon are voting in their country’s elections using ballot boxes set up in the…
Ad-Diyar: The Colombian government announced today, Tuesday, that it will withdraw from the Hague Group as a member state and co-chair, citing the measures the group has taken toward “Israel,” according to the agency…
CH23: What is Jordan trying to say, and what messages is it seeking to send in every direction, following the airstrikes carried out by the Jordanian Air Force on sites belonging to terrorist organizations in southeastern Syria, under the pretext of responding to the targeting of a church in the village of Hamoud in Karak Governorate a few days ago? Coordination?...…
NOW Lebanon: Two aviation stories kept the Lebanese talking recently. On September 30, President Donald Trump signed a decision lifting restrictions on flights between the United States and Lebanon. The second story was that a technical mission from the International…
An-Nahar: An Israeli dies after casting his vote for Eisenkot, and his daughter expresses her happiness that he took part in the vote before…
Al Jadeed: Hamad bin Jassim warns of a time bomb that could explode at any moment! Former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim warned of what he said was a time bomb that could explode at any moment, if efforts to reach a solution to stop the war underway in the region end without including a clear and explicit agreement. He wrote via…
Nidaa Al Watan: Russia rejects discussion of Iran’s nuclear file at the Council…
Naharnet: A senior Lebanese security source has commented on the growing speculation that Hezbollah has begun restoring its military capabilities to offset the losses it had incurred while supporting Gaza and Iran. The source told Asharq al-Awsat…
An-Nahar: Israel’s 2023 elections saw a high voter turnout amid fierce competition between Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot to determine the country’s future after years of…
Lebanon 24: A well-informed Jordanian source denied, in statements to "Sky News Arabia," that the tent housing civilians in southern Syria had been a target of the Jordanian army, stressing that it had not actually been targeted. The source said the army had avoided striking sites where an attack could have caused civilian casualties, noting that the civilians who…