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.
Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent home from the schools in Shuafat refugee camp/ Armed Israeli security forces have forced the closure of three schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent ...
Hostages' families have urged Israel's prime minister to agree another deal with Hamas rather than expand the Gaza offensive/ Israel's prime minister has said there is "uncertainty" about the condition of three of 24 hostages previously believed to be alive in Hamas captivity in Gaza. Benjamin ...
Police block the entrance to the Israeli embassy during a protest in March/ The Israeli embassy in London was the alleged target of five Iranian men arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism, the BBC understands. Police have not yet confirmed that the embassy in Kensington was the ...
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed during 13 years of civil war/ "These," says Dr Anas al-Hourani, "are from a mixed mass grave." The head of the newly-opened Syrian Identification Centre is standing next to two tables, covered in femurs. There are 32 of the human thigh bones on each ...
The strikes in Gaza City come as Israel says it is preparing to intensify its military campaign against Hamas/ At least 20 Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli strikes on a crowded restaurant and market on the same street in Gaza City, medics say. Graphic videos posted on social media ...
The Houthis' top negotiator said their support for the Palestinian people in Gaza "will not change"/ A senior Houthi official has rejected US President Donald Trump's claim the Yemeni armed group "capitulated" when agreeing a ceasefire deal, saying the US "backed down" instead. "What changed is ...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis that "we are on the eve of an intense entry into Gaza." Israel would, he said, capture territory and hold it: "They will not enter and come out." The new offensive is calculated, according to the spokesperson for the Israel Defense ...
Trump says Houthis told administration they 'don't want to fight anymore'/ Donald Trump said the US would stop attacking the Houthis in Yemen because the group had "capitulated", as Oman confirmed a "ceasefire" had been reached with the Iran-backed group for it to stop targeting shipping in the ...
Smoke rises over the city of Sanaa, on 6 May, following an Israeli air strike/ The Israeli military has said it "fully disabled" Yemen's main airport in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis. Tuesday's strikes targeted three civilian planes, the departures hall, the runway and a ...
The UN said an expanded Israeli offensive would "inevitably lead to countless more civilians killed" in Gaza/ A senior Hamas official has said the armed group is not interested in further talks on a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal while Israel continues what he called its "starvation ...