More than a decade of civil strife has opened up the region for the escalating state-to-state conflict./ Israel and Iran are at war. Israeli strikes this week in southern Syria, western Iraq and eastern Lebanon—and possibly even Beirut—confirm it. This war is a very 21st-century affair. For now ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gestures as he addresses his supporters via a screen during a rally marking the anniversary of the defeat of militants near the Lebanese-Syrian border, in al-Ain village/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah vowed to ...
A handout video grab from al-Manar TV shows Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on Aug. 25, 2019. (Al-Manar Tv Grab Handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)/ Attacks against Iranian-allied forces in three countries, all blamed on Israel, escalated tensions across the Middle East on Sunday, ...
drones bombed a Palestinian base in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria early Monday amid rising tensions in the Middle East, the Lebanese state-run National News Agency and a Palestinian official said./ The strike came a day after an alleged Israeli drone crashed in a stronghold of the ...
A recent uptick in rocket fire and Palestinian attempts to cross from Gaza into Israel have been met with Israeli strikes/ A recent uptick in rocket fire and Palestinian attempts to cross from Gaza into Israel have been met with Israeli strikes (AFP Photo/THOMAS COEX)/ Gaza City (Palestinian ...
Broken windows are seen on the 11-floor building that houses the media office in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. Two Israeli drones crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital overnight without the ...
backed Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United States (AFP Photo/Anwar AMRO)/ Beirut (AFP) - Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on Sunday said one of two drones that came down over its Beirut stronghold was rigged with explosives and caused damage to its media ...
Shaabi paramilitary force said one of its fighters was killed in the strike (AFP Photo/-)/ Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday that left one paramilitary fighter dead, the first time the force has directly blamed the Jewish state for such a ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers his speech during meeting with businessmen in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)/ JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military on Monday to cut fuel transfers to Gaza in half in ...
Lebanese security stand near the site where an Israeli drone was said to have crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. A Hezbollah official said Sunday that an Israeli drone went down over the Lebanese capital of ...
Former Israeli Air Force pilot Tal Keinan says Israeli policy is to interrupt the ambition of any regional power that wants to eradicate Israel./ said Sunday he supports “Israel’s right to defend itself from threats posed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,” after the carried out an attack ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured August 8, warned arch-foe Iran it had no immunity from his state's military (AFP Photo/MENAHEM KAHANA)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - The Israeli air force struck in Syria to prevent an Iranian force from launching an attack on the Jewish state with drones ...
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Lebanese farmers and residents of Beirut suburbs hit by drones at the weekend vowed on Monday to stand their ground in the event of any Israeli attack, amid heightened tensions between the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement and Israel. Two drones crashed on ...
Israel has reportedly struck targets in four different countries within the span of two days as it broadened the scope of its extraterritorial activities against allies of Iran. Israeli forces openly claimed attacks over the weekend in Syria and the Palestinian-administered Gaza Strip and were ...
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri is seen during the meeting to discuss a draft policy statement at the governmental palace in Beirut/ BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said two Israeli drones which crashed in a suburb of Beirut dominated by the Iranian-backed ...
An exterior view of the building that houses the media office of Hizbollah after an alleged attack carried by two Israeli drones/ he prospect of an Israel-Hizbollah war loomed closer Sunday after Israel bombed Iranian forces in Syria and was accused of carrying out a botched drone strike in ...
Lebanese security stand near the site where an Israeli drone was said to have crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. A Hezbollah official said Sunday that an Israeli drone went down over the Lebanese capital of ...
Saturday in what it described as a successful effort to thwart a "very imminent"/ The airstrike appeared to be one of the most intense efforts by Israeli forces to tamp down Tehran's military action in the Damascus area and triggered anti-aircraft fire by Syrian forces./ Lt. Col. Jonathan ...
A photograph released by Iran’s Defense Ministry this month shows new missiles called Balaban and Ghaem. Israel says it struck Iranian targets in Syria late Saturday because Iran was planning to attack with “killer drones.”/ JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes struck targets in southern Syria where ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Israeli forces in the occupied Golan Heights are on high alert The Israeli military carried out air strikes on a Palestinian militant group backed by Syria's government in eastern Lebanon overnight, Lebanese media say. A position of the ...
Hezbollah media centre damaged in blast - Hezbollah * Israeli planes struck Iranian targets in Syria overnight (Adds army statement, PIX, TV) BEIRUT, Aug 25 (Reuters) - An Israeli drone fell in the Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut and a second one exploded near the ground early on ...
Lebanese PM accuses Israel of fomenting regional tensions (Adds Nasrallah quotes) BEIRUT, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday warned the Israeli army stationed along the border with Lebanon that his movement was preparing an imminent response to two Israeli ...
The chief of Iran’s Quds force, Qassem Soleimani, reacting to an Israeli air strike in Syria and the crash of two Israeli drones in a Beirut suburb, tweeted on Sunday that “these were the last struggles” of Israel. Soleimani posted pictures of himself on Twitter with the caption: “These insane ...
JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday an air strike against an arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in Syria that it accused of planning “killer drone attacks” showed Tehran that its forces were vulnerable anywhere. A senior Revolutionary Guards commander denied that Iranian targets ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ "Iran has no immunity anywhere," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel has struck Iranian military sites in Syria to prevent what it said was a pending drone strike by Iran. Israel's military rarely acknowledges operations ...
Israel's military struck inside Syria late Saturday, and said it hit Iranian and Shi'ite forces that were preparing to launch ''killer drones''. Lucy Fielder reports./ Israel's military struck inside Syria late Saturday, and said it hit Iranian and Shi'ite forces that were preparing to launch ...
A senior Revolutionary Guards commander denied on Sunday that Iranian targets had been hit in Israeli air strikes in Syria, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported. Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch “killer drones” at targets in ...
BEIRUT (AP) — A Hezbollah official said Sunday that an Israeli drone went down over the Lebanese capital of Beirut and another exploded in the air, amid regional tensions between Israel and Iran. Residents of the Iranian-backed group's stronghold in southern Beirut reported one large explosion ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military attacked targets near Damascus late Saturday in what it said was a successful effort to thwart an imminent Iranian drone strike on Israel, stepping up an already heightened campaign against Iranian military activity in the region. The late-night airstrike, ...
Strikes come amid a broader Israeli military campaign in the region/ TEL AVIV—Israel said it struck military facilities in Syria to prevent suspected planned attacks from Iranian forces, raising the risk of a clash with Tehran amid a broader Israeli campaign to counter the military activities of ...
War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and one Iranian were killed in Israeli strikes around the Syrian capital Damascus overnight. An Israeli military spokesman on Saturday said Israeli aircraft struck Iranian forces near Damascus that ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that were planning to launch armed drones at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said. “The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack ...
Israel launched flurry of strikes against Iran-backed targets across the region over the weekend/ Israel raised the stakes in its regional rivalry with Iran over the weekend by carrying out a flurry of attacks against its forces and their proxies in three different countries. drones and aircraft ...
45PM [Updated: Mon Aug 26, 2019 05:58PM ]/ Members of pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, have reportedly intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle as it was flying in the skies over a region in the country’s northern province of ...
ranking Iraqi official says Baghdad will take all available diplomatic and legal actions to prevent the violation of Iraq’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the wake of recent airstrikes in the country against the positions of pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU). “The ...
The Israeli regime has reduced by half the amount of fuel supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip over claims of rocket attacks launched from the coastal enclave. The Israeli military claimed on Sunday night that three rockets had been fired from Gaza toward the occupied territories and two had ...
12PM [Updated: Mon Aug 26, 2019 03:19PM ]/ Lebanese President Michel Aoun says Israel’s recent drone strikes in Lebanon amounts to “a declaration of war” against the Arab country, vowing that Lebanon will defend its sovereignty against the Israeli aggression. “What happened was similar to a ...
A damaged car of the Popular Mobilization Units is seen after a strike by an unmanned aircraft close to the Syrian border in Anbar, Iraq, on August 25, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)/ The spokesman for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's administration has slammed Israel’s recent attacks against ...
16AM [Updated: Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:22AM ]/ Israeli journalist release an old video attributing it to Israel’s latest missile attack on the outskirts of Syria's capital, Damascus./ Israeli media outlets have been caught attempting to use an old video as footage of Israel’s latest missile attack ...
09AM [Updated: Mon Aug 26, 2019 07:24AM ]/ A handout picture released by the Hashd al-Sha'abi shows the wreckage of a vehicle at the site of a drone attack near Iraq's western border with Syria on August 25, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Iraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, commonly known ...
00AM [Updated: Mon Aug 26, 2019 03:00AM ]/ A rocket intercepted over the western Negev in south of occupied territories in May 2019. (Photo by Israeli media)/ Israel has launched fresh airstrikes against the Gaza Strip and a region in Lebanon near the Syrian border, using its warplanes and ...
00AM [Updated: Mon Aug 26, 2019 01:00AM ]/ Supporters of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement gather to watch the transmission on a large screen of a speech by the movement Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. (Photo by AFP)/ Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the ...
IRGC Quds Force Commander has downplayed the recent Israeli attacks on a number of positions in regional countries, saying the "insane operations" were Tel Aviv's last struggles. "There is no doubt that these insane operations will be the last struggles of the Zionist regime," Major General ...
00PM [Updated: Sun Aug 25, 2019 06:08PM ]/ Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivers a speech broadcast from the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on August 25, 2019./ The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says ...
56PM [Updated: Sun Aug 25, 2019 03:10PM ]/ The file photo shows an Israeli Heron TP surveillance drone flying during a presentation at the Tel Nof Air Force base, south of Tel Aviv. (By AFP)/ Forces from the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in Iraq have shot down a spy drone in the country’s ...
49PM [Updated: Sun Aug 25, 2019 02:05PM ]/ This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows missiles flying into the sky near international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (By AP)/ A senior Iranian official has dismissed as mere “lies” the Israeli regime’s ...
Hezbollah members ride their motorcycles in the Lebanese village of Aitaroun on August 15, 2019, during a parade marking the 13th anniversary of the end of the 2006 war with Israel. (AFP photo)/ Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has shot down two Israeli drones flying over areas near the ...
24PM [Updated: Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:30PM ]/ This August 24, 2019 photo published by Syria's SANA agency purportedly shows missiles being intercepted in skies above the capital Damascus./ Syrian army’s air defense systems have intercepted Israeli missiles flying above Damascus before they could ...
Washington Post law enforcement reporter Devlin Barrett describes the moment former President tried to shake his former assistant Rhona Graff’s hand in front of jurors during his hush money trial.
Crouching in a shallow dip in the field, Moran Stella Yanai knew this time was different./ "I heard 'Coo-coo!' and we raised our heads up - the terrorists were standing [there], smiling," she said. "Everyone started to run, I jumped and broke my leg, and they caught me."/ Warning: This article ...
Om Fahad was sentenced to six months in prison last year for her social media videos (file image)/ Iraqi social media influencer Om Fahad has been shot dead outside her home in Baghdad, according to local media reports./ The attack happened in the capital's eastern Zayne neighbourhood on Friday ...
A crude oil tanker has been damaged in a missile attack off the coast of Yemen - the latest strike to be carried out by the Houthis./ The incident happened roughly 15 nautical miles south-west of the Yemeni city of Mocha./ British maritime security agency UKMTO reported that the Panama-flagged ...
Daniel Rodimer leaves court after his initial appearance on murder charges at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Rodimer, a retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas, has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of ...
Calif., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman who also is running for U.S. Senate had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that , killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, ...
The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially./ Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with ...
SURFSIDE, Fla. (WFLA) — Gisele Bündchen, supermodel and ex-wife of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, was pulled over by the Surfside Police Department on Wednesday. Body camera video from the traffic stop shows Bündchen visibly upset, but not because she was pulled over. She ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...