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After being found in Syria, an American citizen is now with the U.S. forces
Pete Timmerman, a 27-year-old Missouri man who was released from a prison in Syria this month, said he was detained in Damascus in April after crossing into the country on foot from Lebanon. Timmerman’s mother Stacey Collins Gardiner said she hasn’t spoken to her son or anyone from the government about his apparent discovery in…
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The agreement between Israel and Hezbollah is here
Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon has said that the country has decided to pull out its forces from Lebanon’s south as part of a ceasefire between the two countries. The Israeli military said on Thursday that an Israeli aircraft had struck a storage site for Hezbollah rockets. The ceasefire deal ends a conflict between Israel…
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The world is happy that the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is in place
Nearly 3,760 people have been killed in Lebanon during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, many of them civilians, Lebanese health officials said. More than 70 people were killed in Israel during the fighting, and dozens of Israeli soldiers were also killed in southern Lebanon. Iran, which backs Hezbollah and Hamas in Gaza, said it…
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Israel struck Hezbollah-linked banks, causing damage in Lebanon
US has launched an investigation into an unauthorised disclosure of classified documents that indicated an Israeli military strike on Iran was about to take place following the launch of 200 missiles from Lebanon. The documents had shown that Israel was planning to target al-Qard al-Hassan, a Hezbollah unit, a senior Israeli intelligence official said.
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The Gaza health ministry says that at least 87 people are dead or missing from Israeli strikes on north Gaza
Israel launched an air strike on Sunday in Lebanon following an attack on its soldiers in Syria, the country’s defence ministry said. The strike came a day after a rocket from Lebanon hit an Israeli base and killed two soldiers. This is the second air strike on Lebanon in two days. More than 42,000 Palestinians…
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19 people have died in an Israeli strike on a Gaza mosque
The Israeli military said that over 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Saturday and Sunday. It added that the projectiles were fired by Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Last week, Israel launched what it said was a “limited ground” operation into southern Lebanon after a series of attacks killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
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The war in Lebanon has resulted in thousands flee their homes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to the attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas on its territory. This comes after Israel’s military said that about 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Netanyahu added that they are not done yet…
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An airstrike hits a residential building in Lebanon
Israeli Air Force jets carried out strikes on Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon on Monday, a local Lebanese security official said. Hezbollah has claimed that one of its members died in the strike, although it is not clear if the death was caused by the attack. Over 200 Hezbollah militants have been killed in the…
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Israel is preparing for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon
Israel’s military said it targeted buildings containing weapons and military structures in a series of air attacks during the September. This comes after Israel on Saturday announced that it had killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in an airstrikes in Lebanon on Friday. The latest exchanges of fire and Israel’s preparations to attack southern Lebanon have…
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2 more Hezbollah leaders are expected to be dead as the Israel Defence Force prepares to invade southern Lebanon
Israel launched an offensive against Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Friday and killed the group’s chief Sayyed Nasrallah in an air strike, the military said. Nasrallah was killed at his home in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, the military added. The Israeli military has ordered limitations on public gatherings in central Israel in a sign that the country was…
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Israel said it hit Hezbollah’s headquarters in Lebanon
A senior Hezbollah official in Lebanon has said the group will continue fighting until Israel ends its offensive in Gaza. “Israel wants to dismantle Hamas in Gaza but they have a different goal in Lebanon, which is to help the Palestinians,” the official added. Hezbollah began fire rockets into Israel almost immediately after the Hamas…
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Voters in swing state Nevada heard about the impacts of Hurricane Helene
Over 90,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Lebanon following Israel’s airstrikes on Hezbollah-controlled areas in the country, according to the United Nations. Over 10,000 civilians have been killed in Lebanon since the beginning of the conflict. Over 3,500 others have been injured, according to Lebanese health officials.
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Lebanon braces for more after a week of attacks
Israel’s military said on Monday it carried out a wave of air strikes across Lebanon over the past 24 hours, targeting more than 400 militant sites, including rocket launchers. An Israeli military official said that there are no plans for a ground operation at this time. The official added that the strikes were to stop…
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The IDF says that dozens of rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon
A senior Hezbollah leader, Fuad Shukr, was assassinated by Israel on Thursday in an airstrike on a house in Lebanon, the militant group said. Israel claimed that it was Behind the killing because it was revenge for an attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights a few days ago that killed at least 12 people.
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There are more blasts in Lebanon as Hezbollah reels from pager explosions
Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for the twin blasts in Beirut that killed at least 11 people, including six members of its security forces. The blasts were caused by the detonation of wireless devices, it said. This comes a day after Israel carried out an air strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon to target a network…
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Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel in reaction to the death of a leader
The Israeli military said there are still some Hamas fighters in northern Gaza, but they no longer work under an organized military command. This comes a day after a senior Hamas official was killed in Lebanon. “There’s still some Hamas fighters in northern Gaza, but they no longer worked under an organised military command,” the…
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Iran’s foreign minister noted that armed groups are ready to discharge their weapons
US State Secretary Antony Blinken has said that if the US comes under attack from Iran or its proxies in the Middle East, it’ll act “swiftly and decisively”. His comments come amid rising concerns of the Israel-Hamas war spreading. The senior Hamas official based in Lebanon, Ali Barakeh, said that while Iran knows Hamas fights…