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Two veiled Iranian women are walking past a banner featuring a portrait of assassinated Hamas Leader, Ismail Haniyeh, during a ceremony commemorating Haniyeh, at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

September 4, 2024 11:03 AM

US charges Hamas leaders over Oct. 7 attack on Israel

The United States announced criminal charges on Tuesday against Hamas' top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. The charges against Yahya Sinwar, the militant group's chief, and at least five others accuse them of orchestrating the Oct. 7 attack, which killed 1,200 people, including more than 40 Americans. That attack triggered an Israeli assault on Gaza that has killed more than 40,800 Palestinians and laid waste to muc...

TEHRAN, IRAN - JANUARY 20: Iranian missiles are exhibited in a park on January 20, 2024 in Tehran, Iran. Iran has been a key player in several overlapping regional conflicts, with its recent airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan, and its support of Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthi movement in Yemen. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

August 26, 2024 10:31 AM

Israel and Hezbollah in major missile exchange as escalation fears grow

Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a larger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare. Missiles were visible curling up through the dawn sky, dark vapour trails behind them, as an air raid siren sounded in Israel and a distant blast lit the horizon, while smoke rose over houses in Khiam in southern Lebanon. On Sunday evening, sirens sounded i...

KIRYAT SHMONA, ISRAEL - JULY 04: Israeli firefighters work on the ground and in the air to extinguish a fire caused by Hezbollah's firing of more than 200 rockets into northern Israel, a day after the killing of a top military commander as a result of an Israeli airstrike on July 04, 2024 in Kiryat Shmona, Israel. Hezbollah said the rocket fire targeted several military bases in northern Israel, including the 91st Division HQ in Ayelet Barracks, the 7th Armored Brigade HQ in Katsaviya Barracks, the 7th Brigade's Armored Battalion HQ in Gamla Barracks, the 210th Division HQ in Nafah Base, and the Artillery Regiment HQ in Yarden Barracks. Hezbollah said the rocket attacks came in response to Israel's assassination of its commander Mohamed Naim Nasser, 59, who was killed in an Israeli strike in the coastal city of Tyre on Wednesday. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

August 25, 2024 11:21 AM

Hezbollah launches missile barrage at Israel to avenge top commander

Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones against Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the assassination of a senior commander in Beirut last month, the Iranian-backed movement said, as Israel’s cabinet met to prepare a response. Israeli jets hit targets in Lebanon shortly before the strikes as the military assessed that Hezbollah was preparing to begin the barrage, the military said. Hezbollah said it had launched more than 320 Katyusha rockets towards Israel and hit 11 military targ...

SAFED, ISRAEL - JUNE 12: Smoke and flame rise after Hezbollah carried out one of the largest missile attacks on Safed city, northern Israel on June 12, 2024. Israeli firefighters respond to the fire that broke out as a result of the attack. Hezbollah launched rockets on the Amad military base in Ayn Zeitim and Upper Galilee regions of Israel after Hezbollah commander Taleb Abdullah were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanese city of Jwaya on Tuesday night. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

August 21, 2024 3:16 PM

Israel says it bombed Hezbollah arms depots in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it bombed Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley overnight, its latest strike on arms depots in a major stronghold of the powerful Iranian-backed militia. The air attack came hours after Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that "attacking munitions warehouses in Lebanon is preparation for anything that might happen". Hezbollah said it had retaliated for the strike on the Bekaa region by firing Katyusha rockets at an Isr...

BEIRUT, LEBANON - 2024/08/10: The Lebanese flag is on display in Beirut. (Photo by Vasily Krestyaninov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

August 13, 2024 1:50 PM

Lebanon’s displaced fear a bleak future

Displaced in south Lebanon five times, Kamel Mroue and his wife Mariam are anxious about their next move as they follow the news of clashes between Israel and Hezbollah, fearing border hostilities will turn into all-out war. The parents of three children, who live abroad, have been back and fourth between their village of Yohmor, just kilometers away from the frontier, and friends elsewhere around Lebanon. “The future is dim,” said Mroue, an academic. The conflict has displaced more than ...

August 5, 2024 6:04 PM

Lebanon receives medical aid, vacationers leave amid fears of war

Lebanon on Monday received emergency medical supplies to equip its hospitals for possible war injuries and Beirut airport was teeming with people trying to leave the country amid fears a full-scale conflict was on the horizon. Tensions in the region have spiralled in the last week following the killing in Tehran of Palestinian militant group Hamas' head, and an Israeli strike on Beirut's suburbs that killed a top commander in Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah. Hezbollah and Iran have vowed to re...

August 1, 2024 7:36 PM

Tensions Escalate in the Middle East

The Embassy of India in Beirut has issued its third advisory in 48 hours, strongly urging Indian nationals to leave Lebanon immediately. Those who must remain are advised to exercise extreme caution, restrict their movements, and maintain contact with the embassy through their email or emergency phone number. Tensions have dramatically escalated following a rocket attack on the Golan Heights, allegedly carried out by Hezbollah, which resulted in the tragic deaths of 12 children. In swift retali...

View on Beirut, Lebanon, with skyscrapers, mosques and churches. The big mosque is the Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque, also called here the Blue mosque. It was built from 2002-2008. Adjacent to the mosque is the St. George Maronite Cathedral with the new bell tower.

July 30, 2024 2:42 PM

Don’t bomb Beirut: U.S. leads push to rein in Israel’s response

The United States is leading a diplomatic dash to deter Israel from striking Lebanon's capital Beirut or major civil infrastructure in response to a deadly rocket attack on the Golan Heights, five people with knowledge of the drive said. Washington is racing to avert a full-blown war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese movement Hezbollah after the attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan killed 12 youths at the weekend, according to the five people who include Lebanese and Iranian offici...

July 29, 2024 8:19 PM

Israeli officials say they seek to avoid all-out war in Lebanon retaliation

Israel wants to hurt Hezbollah but not drag the Middle East into all-out war, two Israeli officials said on Monday, as Lebanon braced for retaliation after a rocket strike that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Two other Israeli officials said Israel was preparing for the possibility of a few days of fighting following Saturday's rocket strike at a sports field in a Druze town that it blamed on the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. Hezbollah has den...

GOLAN HEIGHTS, - JULY 28: Mourners attend a funeral held for 10 of the victims of yesterday's rocket attack on July 28, 2024 in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights. Yesterday, 12 young people were killed in a rocket attack on a football pitch in this Druze Arab community. Israel blamed the militant group Hezbollah, with which it has been regularly exchanging fire across the Lebanese border, although the group denied responsibility. Today, Israel said it had retaliated with strikes against Hezbollah targets "deep inside Lebanese territory." (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

July 29, 2024 11:09 AM

Israel cabinet authorizes government to respond to Hezbollah rocket strike

Israel's security cabinet on Sunday authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to decide on the "manner and timing" of a response to a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 teenagers and children, and which Israel and the United States blamed on Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. Hezbollah denied responsibility for the attack on Majdal Shams on Saturday, the deadliest in Israel or Israeli-annexed territory since Palestinian militant group Hamas'...