BAGHDAD: An international summit in Baghdad on “regional stability” planned for late November has been postponed due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, an Iraqi official said.
The third edition of the Baghdad conference “for economic integration and regional stability,” co-organized by France, “is postponed until further notice due to the regional events” in the Middle East, said Farhad Alaaldin, adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani.
YATER, Lebanon: Residents of Lebanese border village of Yater said they would rebuild their town once clashes between Hezbollah and Israel end, saying Israel’s shelling of their homes would not push them off their land.
Heavily armed Hezbollah, which is part of an Iranian-backed regional alliance along with Gaza’s ruling Hamas, has been engaged in daily exchanges of fire with Israeli forces along the frontier since war broke out between Israel and Hamas on Oct. 7.