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BEIRUT (10:00 P.M.) – On Friday the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, announced that a third Iranian fuel tanker will set sail from Iran amid crippling fuel and energy shortages in Lebanon.

BEIRUT (9:15 P.M.) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval office on Friday, after the meeting was delayed by a day due to Thursday’s deadly bombing of the Kabul airport amid evacuation efforts.

BEIRUT (6:50 A.M.) – Just on the heels of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s remarks to The New York Times this week wherein he openly acknowledged plans to continue covert attacks on Iran, the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi, has followed with his own threat.

Qatari Finance Minister Ali Shareef Al-Emadi, who was detained in Qatar on charges of embezzlement and sacked, played a key role in economic relations with Turkey, the T24 news website said on Thursday.

Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is in a stable condition in hospital, a day after he was injured in an explosion on one of the country’s tropical islands.

In the meeting that took place in the Iranian Embassy in Lisbon, Morteza Damanpak-Jami and Luís Graça discussed the two parliaments’ ways to support political, economic, cultural, and academic relations.

Three Palestinians opened fire toward a Border Police base in Israeli territory near the northern West Bank on Friday, with two of the attackers killed and one wounded when officers on the scene returned fire.

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) – Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that their intelligence apparatus of the Ashura Corps of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards managed to track and dismantle the organization of the so-called “Landing Iran” organization, which is hostile to the government.

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:45 P.M.) – The Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency reported that the Turkish Armed Forces, on Wednesday, began training their personnel to use the “Hissar” air defense system, which is the first domestically-made missile defense system.

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:45 P.M.) – On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces and their Turkish counterparts carried out a joint patrol for a record distance in northeastern Syria, as it extended more than 100 km into the Al-Qamishli District of Al-Hasakah.