Iran claims retaliation against US as Hezbollah protests Israel-Lebanon agreement
Tehran warned of broader retaliation if attacked again as Washington defended its military action, while unrest spread to Beirut after...
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Oman opens temporary Hormuz shipping corridor as efforts intensify to restore maritime traffic
Muscat said the measure was intended to safeguard freedom of navigation in accordance with international maritime law and without imposing...
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Iran says will not send forces to confront Israel
An Israeli strike on Beirut Friday killed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that has been...
- "There is no need to send extra or volunteer forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran," said foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanan
- Israel has in recent days been mounting heavy air strikes in Lebanon against the so-called "axis of resistance", a network of Iran-aligned militant groups in the region
Israeli special forces in ‘limited’ Lebanon ground operations, says United States
Israeli forces have launched limited incursions in Lebanon, the United States said on Monday, while Lebanon's national army, dwarfed by...
- Lebanese PM Najib Mikati called for a ceasefire based on a recent US-French proposal, urging "an end to the Israeli aggression against Lebanon"
- Netanyahu in a video address to Iranian people say that change will "come a lot sooner than people think"
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Israel prepares for Lebanon ground invasion as Netanyahu tells Iranians ‘change coming soon’
While Israeli defense minister indicates imminent ground invasion of Lebanon speaking to his country's troops, Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Iranian...
- France and the United States call on Israel to avoid ground operations in Lebanon
- Netanyahu in a video address to Iranian people say that change will "come a lot sooner than people think"
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Israel targets Palestinian group in first strike on Beirut center
Israel hit a Beirut apartment block on Monday, killing three members of a Palestinian armed group in its first strike...
- AFP journalists reported drones flying over the Lebanese capital throughout Sunday
- Well over 200,000 people are displaced inside Lebanon and over 50,000 have fled to Syria
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Israel and Hezbollah: A complex history of decades-long conflict and tensions
Nicosia, Cyprus - Israel and Lebanon's Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, whose leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air strike...
- Hezbollah - the "Party of God" - was born in the wake of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon in the country's eastern Bekaa area, and overseen by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps
- In 1985 Hezbollah emerges from the shadows, establishing its armed wing the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon as the spearhead in the fight against Israel
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More than 100 killed in Lebanon as Israel attacks south and central Beirut
Israeli fighter jets pounded parts of Lebanon and a drone attacked a Sunni neighborhood in central Beirut killing dozens across...
- Israel targets predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Kola in central Beirut hitting a residential building
- France's foreign ministry said late Sunday a second French national had been killed in Lebanon as minister visited Beirut for talks
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How Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?
Israel has been planning for months to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in south Beirut. Reports say Israeli PM approved...
- Exploding devices, which Israel has not claimed, killed at least 39 people, wounded almost 3,000 and "threw Hezbollah's communications back to the stone age
- Senior officials say that "more than 80 bombs were dropped over a period of several minutes to kill" Hassan Nasrallah
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UN sends emergency food aid for one million Lebanese amid fresh Israeli attacks
The World Food Program says it had launched an emergency operation to provide meals for one million people affected by...
- Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli air strikes killed 21 people on Sunday in east Lebanon
- "During the intelligence-based strikes, the (air force) struck approximately 120 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon"
Trump launches into ‘dark speech’ on illegal immigration
Anti-immigrant sentiment has been at the core of Trump's appeal in economically depressed, majority-white parts of the country ever since...
- Trump was seeking to strike back at Harris after she visited the US-Mexico border on Friday and vowed to do more to control asylum claims
- The issue is one of the Democratic vice president’s weakest in polling, as she runs neck-and-neck against Trump in the November 5 election
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Retaliation or defeat: Hezbollah at crossroads after Nasrallah’s killing
Widely seen as the most powerful man in Lebanon before his death of Friday, Nasrallah was the face of Hezbollah...
- Widely seen as the most powerful man in Lebanon before his death of Friday, Nasrallah was the face of Hezbollah and Israel's arch-nemesis for more than 30 years
- But Nasrallah's killing in Hezbollah's southern Beirut bastion known as Dahiyeh was the culmination of two weeks of unprecedented blows to the Iran-backed group
Iran claims retaliation against US as Hezbollah protests Israel-Lebanon agreement
Tehran warned of broader retaliation if attacked again as Washington defended its military action, while unrest spread to Beirut after...
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Hamas says Israeli hostages to be freed before Trump peace summit
As part of the deal's first phase, Hama will free the captives, 20 of whom Israel believes are still alive,...
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Morocco’s GenZ 212 says suspending protests temporarily
The weekend pause was "a strategic step to strengthen organisation and coordination, so the next phase of the movement is...
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Relief and scepticism at London Pro-Palestinian protest
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in London on Saturday, expressing scepticism and cautious hope as a ceasefire between...
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US announces deal for Qatar air force facility in Idaho housing F-15 fighter jets, pilots
The announcement comes soon after President Donald Trump signed an executive order vowing to defend the Gulf Arab state against...
- The announcement comes soon after President Donald Trump signed an executive order vowing to defend the Gulf Arab state against attacks
- Hegseth also thanked Qatar for its "substantial role" as a mediator in the talks that led to a truce and hostage-prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas
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Lebanon, Syria seek reset on ties as FM visits Beirut
Lebanon and Syria on Friday committed to turning a new page on ties as Damascus's foreign minister visited Beirut, with...
- The family of Bashar al-Assad, ousted in December, exercised control over Lebanese affairs for decades and was accused of assassinating numerous officials in Lebanon
- "Today we have opened a bright new page in relations between Syria and Lebanon," said Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, the first senior Syrian official to visit Lebanon
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Israel declares ceasefire, begins troops pullback and Gazans start returning home
After two years of brutal war, the families of Israel's remaining hostages in the territory were also hoping the truce...
- The US Pentagon confirmed Israel had completed the first phase of a pullback laid out in Trump's peace plan.
- The withdrawal set the clock running on a 72-hour deadline for Hamas to release the remaining hostages held in Gaza.