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 ...
Gaza's population relies almost entirely on humanitarian aid to survive/ More than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups are warning of mass starvation in Gaza and pressing for governments to take action. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam are among ...
The outbreak of violence in southern Syria's Druze-majority Suweida province has caused alarm in recent days/ Syrian government forces have been accused of carrying out a massacre at a hospital during sectarian clashes which erupted just over a week ago. The BBC has visited Suweida's National ...
Smoke rises over western Deir al-Balah during an Israeli offensive on Monday/ The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel's offensive in central Gaza has compromised its efforts to continue working, after its facilities came under attack. The UN agency accused Israeli forces of attacking a ...
Palestinians pictured carrying aid supplies in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on Sunday/ The Israeli military has killed at least 67 people waiting for UN aid lorries in northern Gaza, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry says. The UN World Food Programme said its 25-truck convoy "encountered ...
Syrian military and security forces in Suweida. Photo: 15 July 2025/ The Syrian presidency says it will deploy a new force to halt the deadly sectarian clashes between Bedouin and Druze fighters in the south of the country. Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's office urged "all parties to ...
Dozens of bodies recovered from homes and streets in Suweida city were brought to a local hospital on Thursday/ The UN human rights chief says his office has received credible reports indicating widespread violations and abuses, including summary executions and arbitrary killings, during the ...
A medic and other men walk past the bodies of those killed in the fighting at a hospital in Suweida city/ Over the last five days, Rima says she has witnessed "barbaric" scenes. The 45-year-old Druze woman has lived in the southern Syrian city of Suweida her whole life, and never thought her ...
The fighting was sparked by a dispute between the Bedouin and Druze communities/ A monitoring group says 594 people have been killed during the recent violence in southern Syria that took on a sectarian dimension. The UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) documented a significant ...
Several people were injured, including the parish priest, and three killed after an Israeli strike hit the Holy Family Church/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country "deeply regrets that a stray ammunition" hit Gaza's only Catholic Church, killing three people sheltering ...
Father Gabriele Romanelli was among those who needed medical treatment/ Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for a Gaza ceasefire after three people sheltering in the Catholic church in Gaza City were killed in an Israeli strike. A telegram said the Pope was "deeply saddened to learn of the loss of ...