Middle East

Rare Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills Hezbollah commander and more than a dozen others

Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such strike on Lebanon’s capital in decades, with Lebanese authorities reporting at least 14 people killed and dozens more wounded in the attack. The Israeli military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, ...

10:58 Et September 21, 2024

Hezbollah leader vows retaliation against Israel for attacks on devices as both sides trade strikes

The leader of Hezbollah vowed Thursday to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week’s deadly sabotage of its members’ communication devices, and said Israelis displaced from homes near ...

10:20 Et September 20, 2024

Lebanon is rocked again by exploding devices as Israel declares a new phase of war

Walkie-talkies exploded in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in a second wave of attacks targeting devices a day after pagers used by Hezbollah blew up, state ...

09:45 Et September 19, 2024

Exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah made in Hungary, accused firm says

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said Wednesday that it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah’s communications network but ...

10:38 Et September 18, 2024

Thousands injured after Hezbollah pagers explode, Lebanese minister says

The Lebanese health minister says 2,750 people were injured and eight killed after handheld pagers used by Hezbollah to communicate exploded. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was among those ...

18:33 Et September 17, 2024

Israel says halting Hezbollah attacks is now a war goal as officials warn of a wider operation

Israel announced Tuesday that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the north in order to allow its residents to return is now an official war goal, as the country considers ...

10:38 Et September 17, 2024

Israeli airstrikes kill 16 in Gaza, including 4 children

Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children. A strike early Monday flattened a home in the ...

10:49 Et September 16, 2024

Missile fired from Yemen lands in central Israel and triggers sirens at international airport

A missile fired from Yemen landed in an open area in central Israel early Sunday, the Israeli military said, in the latest reverberation from the nearly yearlong war in ...

09:49 Et September 15, 2024

Israel strikes Gaza as an American activist killed by Israeli fire is buried

Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people as friends and family members of a Turkish-American activist killed by an Israeli soldier prepared to honor her in a funeral. The airstrikes in Gaza City hit one home housing 11 people, including three women and four children, and another strike hit ...

11:51 Et September 14, 2024

Israeli special forces 'raid missile site in Syria'

Details are emerging of an apparent raid by Israeli special forces on a "Hezbollah missile production facility" in Syria. Israel's government has said nothing about the operation which, ...

11:57 Et September 13, 2024
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