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Monday, 17 July

06:39

Hezbollah is at the gates of the Galilee, 17 years after the Second Lebanon War "IndyWatch Feed War"

JUL 12, 2023 Despite all efforts to eliminate the Lebanese resistance, Tel Aviv faces a stronger, bolder, and undeterred Hezbollah, now locked and loaded on Israels northern border. Hasan Illaik In April 2022, a truck with a container on it suddenly appeared on the Lebanese side in front of Avivim. The IDF watched it and []

03:54

Iraq: 'First' Captagon laboratory found in country, says ministry "IndyWatch Feed War"

Iraq: 'First' Captagon laboratory found in country, says ministry

Iraq has long been a transit country for the stimulant plaguing the Middle East and mostly produced in Syria, but Iraqi officials say it has also become a consumer market for the drug

MEE and agencies Sun, 07/16/2023 - 18:54

This picture taken on July 27, 2022 shows a view of sacks of confiscated captagon pills at the judicial police headquaters in the town of Kafarshima south of Lebanon's capital Beirut

The vast majority of the region's Captagon is produced in Iraq's neighbour Syria and Lebanon (AFP)

Iraq said on Sunday it had found a site in a province bordering Saudi Arabia where Captagon was being produced, a rare discovery in a country that has become a transit route for the illicit drug.

"Today, and maybe for the first time, a laboratory where Captagon is produced was found," Interior Ministry Spokesman General Saad Maan said in a video posted online.

Iraq has long been a transit country for Captagon, the amphetamine-like stimulant plaguing the Middle East, but officials say it has also become a consumer market for the drug.

The laboratory was discovered in the southern province of Muthana, a statement from the ministry said.

Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is believed to be the largest market for the drug.

Sunday, 16 July

19:15

Arabic press review: Lebanese journalist sentenced to a year in prison for defamation "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Arabic press review: Lebanese journalist sentenced to a year in prison for defamation

Meanwhile, secret document reportedly show Saudi Arabia seeking to exit Yemen war, and Qatar records highest number of visitors in years

Mohammad Ayesh Sun, 07/16/2023 - 10:15

Prominent Lebanese journalist Dima Sadek was accused of slander by the Free Patriotic Movement party (AFP)

Journalist Dima Sadek sentenced to a year in prison

A Lebanese court sentenced prominent Lebanese journalist Dima Sadek to one year in prison following a lawsuit by the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement party (FPM) Gebran Bassil, Lebanese newspaper LOrient Today reported on Tuesday.

In the lawsuit filed in 2020, the former foreign minister accused the journalist of "defamation and libel" after she denounced the party for "incitement" and "racism".

In a video posted on Twitter, Sadek said she was being accused of "slander, defamation and inciting sectarian strife" for comments she made in February 2020 regarding two young men who were attacked in the northern city of Tripoli by men linked to the FPM.

The journalist had described the attack on one of the men, who was assaulted by the bodyguards of a former FPM lawmaker, as "racist and Nazi".

"Gebran Bassil is suing me in the case of Zakaria al-Masri," Sadek said in the video.