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March 16, 2026 9:25 AM

Israeli forces kill 16 people in Gaza and the West Bank, medics say

Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, health officials said, in one of the heaviest death tolls in a single day in weeks, as Israel continued to launch attacks on Lebanon and Iran. Medics and the interior ministry of the Hamas-run Gaza said an Israeli airstrike killed a senior police official and eight other officers when it hit their vehicle near the entrance to Zawayda town in the central Gaza Strip. At least 14 other people, mostly bystanders, were wounde...

March 12, 2026 9:05 AM

India joins 29 countries to demand protection for peacekeepers in Lebanon

India has called for the protection of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, who are in the midst of a heightened confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah in the fallout of the Iran war. “We urge all parties, under all circumstances, to ensure the safety and security of UNIFIL personnel and premises, in accordance with international law”, a joint statement by India and 29 other countries said on Wednesday (local time), referring to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon. “Peacekeepers must never be...

March 11, 2026 10:09 AM

Combatants in Mideast war trade more air strikes as Iran clamps down on dissent

The U.S. and Israel traded air strikes with Iran's military across the Middle East as the besieged Tehran government warned its state security forces were ready with "fingers on the trigger" to confront any revival of anti-government protests. Following an exchange of some of the heaviest bombardments in the region yet on Tuesday, the combatants renewed their attacks on opposing targets in Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf early on Wednesday as the war stretched into its 12th day. The conflict has ...

March 5, 2026 10:27 PM

Israel orders people to leave swathe of Beirut

Israel warned residents to leave Beirut's southern suburbs, including Hezbollah-controlled areas, on Thursday, prompting an exodus from a swathe of the capital, which a far-right Israeli minister said would soon resemble parts of Gaza. Suggesting a major escalation looms in Israel's offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah, an Israeli military spokesperson told residents of the southern suburbs to move east and north, posting a map showing four large districts of the capital he said they mus...

March 3, 2026 10:37 PM

Lebanon sucked deeper into war as Hezbollah, Israel trade blows

Lebanon was pulled deeper into the war in the Middle East on Tuesday as the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah launched missiles at Israel for a second consecutive day and Israel sent troops into the south and carried out waves of airstrikes. The theatre of numerous conflicts between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon was drawn into the spillover from the war between the United States, Israel and Iran on Monday, when the group opened fire with drones and missiles. With dozens of people killed in ...

March 2, 2026 6:29 PM

Iran conflict widens to Lebanon; Kuwait mistakenly shoots down US jets

The U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran expanded on Monday with no end in sight, engulfing Lebanon with Israel responding to strikes by Hezbollah, while Tehran fired missiles and drones at Israel, Gulf states and a British air base in far-away Cyprus. The U.S. military said Kuwait's air defences had mistakenly shot down three American F-16 fighters during an Iranian attack. All six crew members were safely recovered. Video, the location of which was verified by Reuters, showed one of the planes s...

March 2, 2026 9:42 AM

Israel strikes Lebanon following Hezbollah attacks, widening Iran conflict

Israel launched new air strikes targeting Tehran and expanded its military campaign to include attacks on Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Monday, as U.S. President Donald Trump signaled the U.S.-Israeli military assault on Iranian targets could continue for weeks. Israel said it was attacking sites connected to Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim armed group Hezbollah, one of Tehran's principal allies in the Middle East, after Hezbollah acknowledged launching missiles and drones toward I...

March 1, 2026 12:02 PM

US tells Lebanon: Israel won’t escalate if no hostile acts come from Lebanese side

Lebanon's presidency said on Saturday it had been told by the U.S. ambassador that Israel would not escalate against Lebanon as long as there are no hostile acts from the Lebanese side, following the launch of U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim armed group Hezbollah, long one of Tehran's principal allies in the Middle East, expressed solidarity with Iran on Saturday but stopped short of saying whether it would get involved. In its statement, Hezbollah said the U.S.-Israeli ...

February 24, 2026 7:44 PM

Israel warns Lebanon of strikes if Hezbollah enters any US-Iran war, Lebanese officials say

Israel has warned Lebanon that it would strike the country hard, targeting civilian infrastructure including the airport, in the event that Hezbollah gets involved in any U.S.-Iran war, two senior Lebanese officials said on Tuesday. The Lebanese officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Israeli message was delivered indirectly. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Lebanese presidency did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Iran and the U.S....

January 23, 2026 10:22 PM

Lebanon PM says IMF wants rescue plan changes as crisis deepens

The International Monetary Fund has demanded amendments to a draft rescue law aimed at hauling Lebanon out of its worst financial crisis on record and giving depositors access to savings frozen for six years, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said. The "financial gap" law is part of a series of reform measures required by the IMF in order to access its funding and aims to allocate the losses from Lebanon's 2019 crash between the state, the central bank, commercial banks and depositors. Salam told Reu...