BEIRUT, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israeli planes hit a Syrian army camp under construction in eastern Syria early on Monday without casualties, said a military media unit run by Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Syrian government ally. War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had earlier reported that ...
Israel's Iron Dome defence system is designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells (AFP Photo/JALAA MAREY)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel said Monday several rockets were fired at its territory from Syria by an Iranian-backed force in what would be a rare ...
Syrian government forces ride on a tank as it drives down a street in the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal (AFP Photo/STRINGER)/ Beirut (AFP) - Air strikes hit positions of pro-Iranian forces and allied militias in eastern Syria overnight, killing 18 fighters, a war monitor said Monday. It was ...
Hezbollah’s leader said on Tuesday his Iran-backed movement had shot down an Israeli drone in Lebanon for the first time to strengthen deterrence against attack by arch-foe Israel./ Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gestures as he addresses his supporters via a screen during the ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gestures as he addresses his supporters via a screen during the religious procession to mark the Shi'ite Ashura ceremony, in Beirut, Lebanon September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah’s leader said on Tuesday his ...
A vehicle of United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) rides on a road along the border between Lebanon and Israel in the southern Lebanese town of Ramyeh in the Bint Jbeil District on Sept. 9, 2019. - (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)/ Foreign correspondent focusing on French and ...
Spanish U.N peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Monday that Israel's air force attacked a Palestinian base in the country's east near the border ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Warplanes have struck positions of Iran-backed militias near Syria's border with Iraq, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said at least 18 Iranian and pro-Iranian fighters were killed. It ...
BEIRUT — Syrian opposition activists say unknown warplanes have targeted an arms depot belonging to Iranian-backed militias in the eastern Syrian town of Boukamal, near the Iraqi border. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the airstrikes began late Sunday and continued ...
BEIRUT — The militant Hezbollah group says it has shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon shortly after it crossed from Israel. The group said in a statement that the militants shot down the drone Monday with “suitable weapons” over the village of Ramieh and that the drone is now with ...
A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic doctor to determine ...
BEIRUT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a ...
BEIRUT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a ...
37AM [Updated: Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:41AM ]/ Israel has claimed a drone attack on Iraqi forces and members of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah near Syria's border with Iraq. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the attack took place in the early hours of Monday, ...
04AM [Updated: Mon Sep 9, 2019 04:13AM ]/ The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has shot down an Israeli military drone outside the southern town of Ramyah. Hezbollah said its air defense forces shot down the aircraft early Monday as it crossed the border between Lebanon and the occupied ...
53PM [Updated: Sun Sep 8, 2019 09:54PM ]/ A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Meiss al-Jabal on December 16, 2018, shows the flag of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah hoisted along the border of Lebanon and the occupied territories. (Photo by AFP)/ A former official in ...
Noura and Mohamed at their home in Gaza City before the war began, where they hoped to raise a family/ "My nerves are shattered," says Noura, a 26-year-old Palestinian woman, explaining that she has been "left with nothing". After years of IVF treatment, she became pregnant in July 2023. "I was ...
Thousands of Gazans stampede towards a food distribution centre/ Thousands of Palestinians have overrun an aid distribution site in Gaza set up by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there. Videos showed crowds walking over torn-down fences and earth berms ...
The death of Moaz al-Kasasbeh shocked Jordan (file image)/ This article contains distressing descriptions of death Swedish authorities have charged a convicted terrorist over the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot who was burned to death in Syria. Osama Krayem, 32 - a Swedish citizen - was on ...
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says lorries delivered food to its "Secure Distribution Sites" on Monday/ A controversial new aid distribution group backed by the US and Israel has begun working in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said lorry loads of food had been delivered to ...
Video footage shared online shows six-year-old Ward Jalal Al-Shaikh Khalil escaping a blaze at a Gaza City school following overnight Israeli air strikes. Among the 35 Palestinians reported to have been killed at the the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School were Ward's mother and two siblings. Our Middle ...
Some aid trucks have entered Gaza in recent days, after Israel eased an 11-week blockade/ The head of an organisation set up to distribute aid in Gaza as part of a controversial Israel-backed plan has resigned, saying it could not work in a way that adhered to "humanitarian principles". Jake ...
Rubble pictured in a separate area of central Gaza on Sunday/ At least 24 Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli air strikes overnight, including a strike on a school sheltering displaced families in central Gaza, according to medics and civil defence officials. The strike ...
Ministers are facing calls to start processing Syrian asylum applications again, as new figures showed more than 7,000 people are still in limbo. The UK paused decisions on Syrian claims for asylum and permanent settlement in December, after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. But more than ...
There is no excitement as the camera passes. The children barely glance. What can surprise a child who lives among the dead, the dying, the waiting to die? Hunger has worn them down. They wait in queues for scant rations or for none at all. They have grown used to my colleague and his ...
Najjar (2nd L) at her husband's bedside in Nasser hospital/ The husband of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza whose children were killed in an Israeli strike on Friday remains in critical condition, according to the hospital treating him. Hamdi al-Najjar's "life remains in danger", Dr Milena ...