The Lebanese army and the UN patrol a Lebanese village along the border with Israel on August 27 (AFP Photo/JACK GUEZ)/ Beirut (AFP) - The Lebanese army opened fire at an Israeli drone in south Lebanon on Wednesday, a military source and state media said, in a rare incident as tensions mount ...
Lebanese soldiers next to a Hezbollah flag patrol in the southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun, on the Israel-Lebanon border, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Israeli forces along the border with Lebanon are on high alert, raising fears of a repeat of the 2006 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)/ ...
Lebanese soldiers next to a Hezbollah flag patrol in the southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun, on the Israel-Lebanon border, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Israeli forces along the border with Lebanon are on high alert, raising fears of a repeat of the 2006 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)/ ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem is pictured during an interview with Reuters at his office in Beirut's suburbs/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah will retaliate against Israel after drones crashed in Beirut's suburbs, but a new war between the old enemies remains unlikely, the ...
A FRENCH attempt to jump-start talks between the United States and Iran got plenty of attention over the weekend at the Group of Seven summit, but it might have been less serious than it seemed. Though President Trump agreed with French President Emmanuel Macron that a meeting with Iranian ...
Hezbollah will respond with a “surprise” strike against Israel after drones crashed in Lebanon, but a new war remains unlikely, the Iran-backed movement said, amid heightened fears of a full-scale confrontation between the longtime adversaries./ FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Hezbollah deputy leader ...
12AM [Updated: Tue Aug 27, 2019 07:13AM ]/ Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (By AFP)/ A political commentator tells Press TV that Israel has been waging a “proxy war” against Iran by escalating its aerial attacks against regional countries, describing the assaults as an election stunt ...
58PM [Updated: Wed Aug 28, 2019 06:05PM ]/ This file picture shows an IAI Eitan unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at a base in the Israeli-occupied territories. (Photo by English-language Haaretz daily newspaper)/ Lebanese security sources say the country’s air defense units have fired shots at ...
36AM [Updated: Wed Aug 28, 2019 05:45AM ]/ This picture taken on August 25, 2019 shows damage to a building housing a media center of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement in the south of the capital Beirut, after two drones came down in its vicinity earlier in the day. (By AFP)/ The ...
25AM [Updated: Wed Aug 28, 2019 01:55AM ]/ Lebanon’s Higher Defense Council, chaired by President Michel Aoun, convenes a session in the capital Beirut on August 27, 2019 to discuss the latest Israeli drone attack. (Photo via Twitter)/ Lebanon’s Higher Defense Council has stated that the ...
50PM [Updated: Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:57PM ]/ Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri (L) meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, on September 12, 2017, (Photo by Lebanon’s National News Agency)/ Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has strongly condemned Israel’s ...
52AM [Updated: Tue Aug 27, 2019 08:52AM ]/ The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says fighters from the movement will counter any further violation of the Lebanese airspace by Israeli drones.
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...
A senior Palestinian official said Khalil al-Hayya (R) was likely to be in Turkey (file photo)/ The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said. Qatar’s foreign ministry ...
A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street/ An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say. Earlier in ...
Axios reported last week that a “nuclear weapons research facility“ at Parchin was hit in late October/ Israel’s prime minister says it hit part of Iran’s nuclear programme last month, despite pleas from the US not to do so during the strikes it carried out in response to a missile attack. “It’s ...
People living in Hassakeh now rely on deliveries of water transported by tanker/ Turkish air strikes in drought-struck north-east Syria have cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people, in what experts say may be a violation of international law. Turkey carried out ...