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.
Barbara Plett Usher, Emma Rossiter and Yolande Knell in Jerusalem/ Watch: AFP footage appears to show a people removing sacks from UN warehouse in Gaza/ The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says that "hordes of hungry people" have broken into a food supply warehouse in central Gaza. Two people ...
Israeli ministers said the settler outpost at Homesh will be retrospectively legalised (file photo)/ Israeli ministers say 22 new Jewish settlements have been approved in the occupied West Bank - the biggest expansion in decades. Several already exist as outposts, built without government ...
In December 2023, the Israeli military released a video that it said showed Mohammed Sinwar being driven through a Hamas underground tunnel/ Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says its military has "eliminated" Hamas's Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar, one of its most wanted men and the ...
The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds overwhelmed an aid distribution centre run by a controversial new group backed by the US and Israel. A senior official said the UN was still gathering information but that most of the injuries ...
At least 35 people were killed after Israel targeted the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City on Sunday/ The EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has said that "Israeli strikes in Gaza go beyond what is necessary to fight Hamas" as the death toll there continues to mount. Kallas also said that the EU ...
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 ...
Aftermath of an Israeli strike at Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City on 26 May/ Hundreds of lawyers have called on the UK government to use "all available means" to stop the fighting in Gaza, including reviewing trade ties with Israel and imposing sanctions and travel bans on Israeli ministers ...
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 ...