People at the site of an Israeli air strike in Beirut's southern suburbs in Lebanon on Tuesday/ The prime minister has told British nationals in Lebanon to "leave immediately" after fighting intensified between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group which dominates the country. Sir ...
The BBC has witnessed Israeli airstrikes around the city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon. Correspondent Orla Guerin visited the usually crowded holiday destination, and said it is now "basically deserted", apart from people fleeing intense Israeli airstrikes in nearby towns. Israel is carrying out ...
World leaders take part in the 79th annual U.N. General Assembly high-level debate/ MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that a plan by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to force it to make peace was a "fatal mistake" that would have consequences for Kyiv. Zelenskiy told the United ...
The Israeli military said a strike in Beirut on Tuesday killed the head of Hezbollah’s rocket forces/ Lebanon’s health minister has said what is happening in his country is “carnage”, as hospitals struggle to cope with the number of casualties from two days of widespread Israeli air strikes ...
Israel has launched more than 1,000 air strikes on Lebanon over the past two days/ Israel’s leaders are jubilant about the progress of the offensive against Hezbollah that started with the detonation of weaponised pagers and radios and moved on to intense and deadly airstrikes. Defence Minister ...
scale war not in anyone's interest, says US President Joe Biden/ US President Joe Biden has spent nearly a year vowing his determination to prevent the war in Gaza engulfing the wider Middle East. On Tuesday, he repeated that resolve in his last ever United Nations speech as president, as he ...
A satellite image shows ammunition bunkers before the explosion, in Toropets/ LONDON (Reuters) - Elena is scouring the town for window glass. Irina wants boards and beams to fix holes in her roof. Nearly a week after a Ukrainian drone blew up an ammunition depot in the Russian town of Toropets, ...
As Israel continues to bombard southern Lebanon, thousands of civilians are fleeing their homes. Lebanon's health ministry says 558 people have been killed, including 50 children, in strikes since Monday. The BBC's Carine Torbey visited a school in the capital Beirut, which has been turned into ...
The war in Gaza always had the capacity to spread. Near-daily rocket attacks in and around northern Israel by Hezbollah, Hamas's Lebanese allies, and air strikes by Israel have displaced tens of thousands of civilians on either side of the border. But until recently, the smart money was on both ...
Iranian worshippers reacted angrily to the burning of the Quran in Sweden/ Sweden's security service Sapo has accused Iranian intelligence of hacking into a text messaging service to send 15,000 messages to Swedes. Sapo said the data breach in summer last year involved SMS messages calling for ...
