The business owners arrived one by one, but all were united in their mission on a chilly December morning: Salvage anything from the pulverized market in this hillside city in southern Lebanon. A photo studio operator and his son trudged through debris and twisted metal to recover dust-coated negatives and …
On Sept. 17, almost a year into an escalating conflict with Israel, militants in the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah heard an urgent ringtone call out from their model AR-924 pagers. They had no idea that the devices they pulled out of their pockets were bombs. After the Israeli intelligence agency …
Israel unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people on Monday after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were Israeli truce violations. The projectiles were apparently …
As a ceasefire the U.S. helped broker between Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah came into effect Wednesday, President Biden said his administration would quickly launch “another push” with international partners to secure a deal to end the even deadlier war in the Gaza Strip. Mr. Biden, who has less …
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel Tuesday to make another push for a cease-fire in the close U.S. ally’s multi-front war with Iran’s so-called proxy groups. Just hours before he landed, air raid sirens pierced the morning quiet in Tel Aviv and operations at Ben Gurion airport were …
Israeli forces have spent much of the past year destroying Hamas’ vast underground network in Gaza. They are now focused on dismantling tunnels and other hideouts belonging to Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. Scarred by Hamas’ deadly raid into Israel last year that sparked the war in Gaza, Israel says it aims to …
The escalating fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued Saturday as both sides traded strikes as the war in Gaza nears one year. The Israel Defense Forces said its air force struck Hezbollah fighters inside a mosque in southern Lebanon that they said was used as a command center to “plan …
At least seven health and rescue workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Beirut overnight, an Islamic health organization said Thursday, as Israel’s battle against the Iran-backed groups Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza raged, fueling concern of a wider regional conflict. The strike …
Almost a year after Israel launched its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the Iran-backed group’s Oct. 7 terrorist rampage, it announced the beginning of what the Israel Defense Forces said would be “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” against Iran’s much larger, better-armed proxy group …
Israel’s military said Saturday that it killed Hassan Nasrallah, the overall leader of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, in an airstrike the previous day on the group’s “central headquarters” in Beirut, Lebanon. The militant group confirmed Nasrallah’s death, saying its longtime leader “has joined his fellow martyrs.” The Friday afternoon strike was …