JERUSALEM: A rocket barrage was launched from southern Lebanon toward Israel early Sunday, according to media reports. Israeli Channel 14 reported that at least 50 rockets were fired toward the Upper Galilee. Sirens were heard as a result of the launches. Hamas and Iran have vowed to retaliate for the assassination of the group’s political […]
Hezbollah on Saturday said it launched dozens of rockets at Israel as tensions in the Middle East soared with Iran and its allies reading their response to the killing of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this week. Amid fears of a regional war, US President Joe Biden hoped that Iran would “stand down” despite […]
Iran said on Saturday it expects Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah group to hit deeper inside Israel and no longer be confined to military targets after Israel killed the Hezbollah military commander. Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israeli forces, saying it is targeting military positions over the border. But a strike claimed by Israel in […]
TEHRAN: Iran said on Saturday it expects Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah group to hit deeper inside Israel and no longer be confined to military targets after Israel killed the Hezbollah military commander. Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israeli forces, saying it is targeting military positions over the border. But a strike claimed by Israel […]
Exchange of attacks between Israeli and Hezbollah forces have intesified ending the brief lull along the border after Tel Aviv killed the Lebanese group’s military commander, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut. The escalation of tensions in the region follows Friday’s burial of Ismael Haniyeh in Doha after Israel murdered the Hamas leader in Tehran, Iran’s capital, earlier this […]
WASHINGTON: Australia urged its citizens Wednesday to leave Lebanon because of rising tensions between Hezbollah and Israel. “My message to Australian citizens and residents in Lebanon is: now is the time to leave. If you are in Australia and thinking of travelling to Lebanon, do not,” Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a video message […]
BEIRUT: The body of Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr has been found in rubble in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, two security sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Israel’s military announced late on Tuesday that it had killed Shukr, whom it named as Hezbollah’s most senior commander and whom it blamed for an […]
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he did not think a wider war in the Middle East was inevitable and the United States was seeking to cool rising tensions in the region. “I don’t think war is inevitable. I maintain that. I think there’s always room and opportunities for diplomacy,” Austin told reporters during […]
Fuad Shukr, a top Hezbollah commander whom Israel said it killed in an airstrike in Beirut on Tuesday, has been one of the group’s leading military figures since it was established by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards more than four decades ago. Israel said Shukr, believed to be in his 60s, was Hezbollah’s most senior military commander […]
JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel’s military claimed it killed Hezbollah’s most senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut on Tuesday, in retaliation for a cross-border rocket attack that killed 12 youngsters three days ago which it blamed on the Lebanese armed group. A loud blast was heard and a plume of smoke could be seen rising above […]