UN peacekeepers on patrol near the border between Lebanon and Israel/ UN peacekeepers on patrol near the border between Lebanon and Israel (AFP Photo/Mahmoud ZAYYAT)/ Avivim (Israel) (AFP) - An escalation between Israel and Hezbollah has ended after a brief exchange of fire, but tensions ...
Israel said it retaliated with around 100 artillery shells targeting the Hezbollah squad that fired the missiles (AFP Photo/Mahmoud ZAYYAT)/ Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and Israel traded cross-border fire on Sunday, in a spat that came after a week of heightened tensions between ...
A UN peacekeeper (UNIFIL) patrols the border with Israel, in the village of Khiam, Lebanon September 2, 2019. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho/ MAROUN AL-RAS, Lebanon (Reuters) - The Lebanon-Israel border area was quiet on Monday, after Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group and the Israeli army exchanged ...
A UN peacekeeper (UNIFIL) patrols the border with Israel in the village of Khiam/ MAROUN AL-RAS, Lebanon (Reuters) - The Lebanon-Israel border area was quiet on Monday, after Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group and the Israeli army exchanged cross-border fire on Sunday. Israel's military said ...
Israeli soldiers stand near artillery units deployed in Hula Valley in the north of Israel near the Lebanon border on Sunday./ JERUSALEM — The Lebanese militia Hezbollah fired missiles at an Israeli military border post on Sunday in what it called payback for an a week earlier that killed two ...
Smoke rises from Israeli army shells that landed in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The Lebanese army says Israeli forces have fired some 40 shells on the outskirts of several border villages following an attack by the militant Hezbollah ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as he arrives to review an honor guard with his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed during their meeting in Jerusalem/ JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a ...
Smoke rises from Israeli army shells that landed in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The Lebanese army says Israeli forces have fired some 40 shells on the outskirts of several border villages following an attack by the militant Hezbollah ...
Israeli soldiers sit next artillery units deployed in Hula Valley north of Israel near the Israeli-Lebanon border - REX/ Israel said it was returning fire Sunday after anti-tank missiles were launched at its territory from Lebanon, raising fears of a serious escalation with Hizbollah after a ...
Israeli soldiers stand next to shells and a mobile artillery unit near the Israeli side of the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights August 26, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese military said an Israeli drone, which violated Lebanon’s ...
Hezbollah fired antitank missiles into northern Israel on Sunday, prompting Israel to fire volleys of artillery against three villages in southern Lebanon in a sharp escalation of already high tensions. Both sides of the border had been bracing for confrontation after a threat by Hezbollah to ...
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, speaks via a video link, during the first day of Ashoura, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. TThe leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah categorically denied Israeli claims about his group having factories to produce ...
BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The Lebanese military said an Israeli drone, which violated Lebanon's airspace, dropped incendiary material and sparked a fire in a pine forest by the border on Sunday. The fires near the border in Lebanon "originate with operations by our forces in the area," the ...
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Israel's military said on Sunday anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles and that it responded with fire into southern Lebanon. Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said its fighters destroyed an Israeli military vehicle, killing ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah, Israel trade fire at border * Tensions rising since drone attack in Beirut suburbs * The two enemies last fought a war in 2006 (Adds Iranian officials, UNIFIL statement, details) JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that ...
- Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah exchanged fire with the Israeli army along the volatile border Sunday, fulfilling a vow to avenge Israeli strikes but stopping short of a major escalation. The shelling had subsided within hours with no casualties and the threat of immediate escalation ...
Tensions rose after drone attack in Beirut suburbs JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon's Hezbollah but neither side seemed eager for another conflict. Israel's ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Images have emerged purportedly showing smoke rising above Lebanon's Maroun al-Ras village after Israeli strikes The Lebanese Shia militant group, Hezbollah, has fired several anti-tank rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for a ...
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hezbollah said on Saturday its field commanders were ready to respond to an attack a week ago that the Lebanese group blamed on Israeli drones, after Israel’s military ordered extra forces to deploy near the border./ FILE PHOTO: A banner depicting Hezbollah leader ...
Fighters with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement parade in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut to mark al-Quds International Day on May 31, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ A senior Hezbollah official says the Lebanese resistance movement will hit targets deep inside the Israeli-occupied ...
56PM [Updated: Mon Sep 2, 2019 01:22PM ]/ Artillery shells are lined up beside an Israeli self-propelled artillery gun, near the Lebanese border on the outskirts of the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona, on September 1, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Iran has strongly condemned the Israeli regime's ...
21PM [Updated: Mon Sep 2, 2019 01:21PM ]/ An Israeli reconnaissance balloon flies over Meiss Ej Jabal village in the southern Lebanon on September 2, 2019. (Photo by National News Agency)/ The Israeli military has launched a reconnaissance balloon over the southern part of Lebanon, a day after ...
20AM [Updated: Mon Sep 2, 2019 07:29AM ]/ This picture taken on September 1, 2019 from a location near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, close to the border with Lebanon, shows fires and smoke rising after Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles into northern Israel. ...
23PM [Updated: Sun Sep 1, 2019 05:37PM ]/ The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says protecting the interests of the Lebanese people is the main approach followed by the Hezbollah resistance movement, adding that the movement enjoys significant popular support in the ...
06PM [Updated: Sun Sep 1, 2019 01:09PM ]/ The photo shows an Israeli shell after it slammed into the Jabal al-Rous area in the occupied Shebaa Farms and Kfarshouba Hills, southern Lebanon, on September 1, 2019. (Photo by Lebanon’s official National News Agency)/ Israeli artillery units have ...
55PM [Updated: Sun Sep 1, 2019 01:59PM ]/ Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says it has targeted an Israeli military vehicle near the border with the occupied Palestinian lands, killing and injuring all forces on board. Following the attack on Sunday, Israeli military sources confirmed that ...
20AM [Updated: Mon Sep 2, 2019 06:21AM ]/ This picture taken on September 1, 2019 from a location near the illegal settlement of Avivim, shows a fire blazing in a field along the border with Israel on the Lebanese side following an exchange of fire. (Photo by AFP)/ As Hezbollah chief Sayyed ...
34PM [Updated: Sat Aug 31, 2019 07:39PM ]/ A speech by the Lebanese Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement leader Hassan Nasrallah is transmitted on a large screen in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on August 31, 2019. (AFP photo)/ Leader of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah ...
Traffic congestion has made leaving Tehran difficult as large numbers of people attempt to flee/ Many Iranians have reacted with fear and dismay at Donald Trump's instruction to "immediately evacuate Tehran". The capital's almost 10 million residents have now been left to decide whether to ...
President Trump's comments on the Israel-Iran conflict have veered from full throated support for Israel's strikes to strongly distancing himself from them, and back again. His ambiguity has added to the sense of uncertainty as the fighting itself escalates - as has his departure from the G7 in ...
Footage shows explosions and damaged buildings ablaze in Iran's capital Tehran/ Israel and Iran exchanged strikes overnight into Monday, as fighting between the two countries entered its fourth day. The conflict began on Friday when Israel attacked nuclear and military sites in Iran. Iran ...
"Stuck". That is the word most people who have spoken to the BBC use to describe life in Iran right now. After three days of Israeli attacks, "everyone is trying to escape" Tehran "one way or another," one resident told BBC News Persian. On Sunday, long queues formed at petrol stations across ...
The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told the BBC. Major General Bassam Al Hassan is a former commander in the Republican Guards who was ...
Two people were killed when a missile hit Rishon LeZion early on Saturday/ As sirens rang out across Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning, Ifat Benhaim and her family ran into their basement. "We closed the door, and suddenly there was such a big boom," she says. "I thought all the ...
Shifa hospital in Gaza City said 12 people were killed by Israeli fire as they waited for a convoy of aid lorries on the coastal road/ At least 15 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they gathered near an aid distribution centre in central Gaza, hospitals say. Officials at al-Aqsa ...
Friday night saw Israel and Iran exchange a barrage of air strikes/ For now the fighting between Israel and Iran seems restricted to the two nations. At the United Nations and elsewhere there have been widespread calls for restraint. But what if they fall on deaf ears? What if the fighting ...
Some Israeli attacks hit populated areas in Tehran and other places/ Beyond Israel's stated goal of destroying what it calls an existential threat from Iran's nuclear capabilities with its attacks on Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu has a wider aim - regime change in Tehran. Under this scenario, he ...
Iranian state media says 78 people were killed in the capital alone and more than 300 injured/ The Iranian regime remains deeply unpopular, and many citizens have shown little sympathy for the assassination of senior military commanders, figures widely seen as responsible for brutal crackdowns ...