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A child holds on to their belongings while crossing from Lebanon into Syria at the Masnaa border crossing, Lebanon, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2024
Lebanon and Israel could agree to cease-fire within days: Lebanese PM
The statement comes as Israel's public broadcaster published what it said was a draft agreement providing for an initial 60-day truce.
Smoke billows over the UNESCO-listed port city of Tyre after Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2024
Israel and Hezbollah exchange heavy fire as Blinken pushes for peace
The intensifying exchanges come as Washington makes a final push for peace before the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election that could alter U.S. policy.
Pagers on display at a meeting room at the Gold Apollo company building in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Sept. 18
WORLD
Oct 17, 2024
How Hezbollah came to possess bulky pagers with concealed explosives
The pager attack, and a second on the following day that activated weaponized walkie-talkies, killed 39 people and wounded more than 3,400.
Israeli tanks on the move in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sept. 22
WORLD
Oct 16, 2024
Israel's demining near Golan signals wider front against Hezbollah, sources say
The move suggests Israel may seek to strike Hezbollah for the first time from further east along Lebanon's border.
Members of the Red Cross work at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Ras Al— Nabaa, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday.
WORLD
Oct 11, 2024
Hezbollah official survives Israeli assassination attempt: sources
Israel reportedly targeted Wafiq Safa, who heads Hezbollah's liaison and coordination unit responsible for working with Lebanese security agencies.
Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after a strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2024
Israel says it has killed Hezbollah leader's successors
Hezbollah is reeling after a spate of senior commanders have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after a strike as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, on Saturday.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2024
Israeli strike hits north Lebanon as raids pummel Beirut suburbs
A source said a Hamas official, his wife and two children were killed in the strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli.
Israel's Iron Dome antimissile system intercepts rockets after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 2, 2024
Israel beefs up forces on Lebanon border as Hezbollah reports clashes
The Israeli military said regular infantry and armored units were joining its ground operations in Lebanon.
Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after an Israeli strike, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 30, 2024
Three Palestinian leaders killed in Israel strike in Beirut
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, another group fighting Israel, said its three leaders were killed in a strike that targeted Beirut's Kola district.
A man holds pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) and Hassan Nasrallah (left), the late leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut days earlier, in Baghdad's eastern suburb of Sadr City on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 30, 2024
Israel strikes Yemen port and keeps up Lebanon assault
The airstrikes on Yemen's port of Hodeidah come amid fears that Middle East fighting could spin out of control and draw in Iran and the United States.
Smoke billows over southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike, as seen from Tyre, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2024
Israel mulls a ground assault on Lebanon as diplomats work to stop war
World leaders have expressed concern that the conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah is rapidly escalating.
Smoke billows from a site targeted by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Zaita on Monday.
WORLD
Sep 24, 2024
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 492, Lebanon says, as civilians flee
After almost a year of war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel is shifting its focus to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
An Israeli fighter jet takes off at an unidentified location to conduct strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, in this photo released on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 20, 2024
Israel unleashes strikes on Lebanon as U.S. and U.K. urge restraint
The U.S. said a diplomatic solution was achievable and urgent, and Britain called for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
One of the coffins is carried during the funeral of Mohammed Bilal Kanj, Mohamed Hassan Nour al-Din, Abbas Fadel Yassin and Mohammad Mahdi Ammar, son of Hezbollah member of the Lebanese parliament, Ali Ammar, who were killed amid the detonation of pagers across Lebanon, in Beirut on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 19, 2024
Hezbollah devices explode again in Lebanon, raising fears of wider Israel conflict
Lebanon's health ministry said 20 people were killed on Wednesday, while Tuesday's explosions killed 12 and injured 3,000.
Ambulances and a crowd of people gather at the entrance of the American University of Beirut Medical Center on Tuesday after explosions hit locations in several Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon.
WORLD
Sep 18, 2024
Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah's pagers, sources say
The operation was an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others.
Mourners carry coffins, during the funeral of children who were killed at a soccer pitch by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on Monday.
WORLD
Jul 30, 2024
Don't bomb Beirut: U.S. leads push to rein in Israel's response
Washington is racing to avert a full-blown war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese movement Hezbollah.
Interceptions of rockets launched from Lebanon to Israel over the border on June 27
WORLD
Jul 10, 2024
Pagers and drones: How Hezbollah aims to counter Israel's surveillance
Stepped-up attacks on Lebanon's southern border in recent weeks have intensified concerns it could spiral into a full-scale war.
Lebanon's Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem speaks during an interview in Beirut's suburbs on June 6, 2022.
WORLD
Jun 5, 2024
Israel nears decision on Lebanon border offensive, army chief says
The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel intensifying adds concerns that an even wider confrontation could break out between the heavily armed adversaries.
A girl walks past a tent sprayed with a message of gratitude to pro-Palestinian university students in the U.S. amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
May 3, 2024
Why Palestinians can count on U.S. students but not Arab allies to protest
Reasons range from a fear of angering autocratic governments to political differences with Hamas or doubts that it could impact state policy.
An Israeli soldier stands by as a mobile artillery unit fires, near the Israel-Lebanon border on Jan. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 13, 2024
France poses Hezbollah withdrawal for Israel-Lebanon truce
The plan aims to end fighting between the Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel at the border.

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