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  • HRW says Israeli strikes on Lebanon putting civilians ‘at grave risk’

    United Nations "member states should take urgent action to establish an independent inquiry into violations during the current hostilities", said...

    Israeli raids on Lebanon on Monday killed at least 558 people

    "More than 1,000 Israeli strikes across Lebanon that have killed hundreds of people and injured thousands" this week

  • Biden warns at UN against ‘full-scale war’ over Lebanon

    Biden also pushed again for an elusive ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, telling the global body it was time to...

    The UN General Assembly, the high point of the diplomatic calendar, comes as Lebanese authorities say Israeli strikes killed 558 people -- 50 of them children

    "Full-scale war not in anyone's interest. Even though the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible," Biden said in his farewell address to the global body

  • UN chief warns Lebanon on ‘brink’ as world leaders gather

    Top United Nations officials have expressed deep concerns over the violent Lebanon-Israeli situation that has resulted in the deaths of...

    Lebanese authorities say Israeli strikes killed 558 people - 50 of them children

    "Lebanon is at the brink," UN Secretary-General said

  • Nearly 500 dead in Israeli strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon

    Israeli air strikes on Lebanon killed at least 492 people on Monday, including 35 children, Lebanon's health ministry said, marking...

    Israel said it killed a "large number" of Hezbollah militants when it hit about 1,600 sites in southern and eastern Lebanon

    EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell warned that Israel and Hezbollah were "almost in full-fledged war"

  • Hamas weakened, not crushed a year into war with Israel

    The Palestinian group has not been crushed outright, and a year on from its unprecedented attack on Israel, an end...

    In one of the biggest blows to the movement since it was founded in 1987 during the Palestinian intifada uprising, Hamas's leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran on July 31

    On the Gaza battlefield, Israeli forces have aggressively pursued both Sinwar and Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, whom Israel says it killed in an air strike

  • UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an event on “The Inclusion of Women in the Future of Afghanistan” on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2024. (AFP)

    World leaders gather at UN as Mideast tensions explode

    Escalating clashes between Israel and Hezbollah threatened to overshadow US President Joe Biden's final appearance at the UN's signature annual...

    UN Security Council member France called for an emergency meeting on the crisis engulfing the Middle East

    Top diplomat of European Union Josep Borrell warned, "we are almost in a full-fledged war" about the Lebanon-Israel situation

  • US President Joe Biden

    Biden’s United States powerless as Israel pounds Lebanon

    US President Joe Biden's top priorities for the past 11 months has been to prevent the Gaza war from spiraling...

    Biden administration was presenting "concrete ideas" to provide an "off-ramp" to prevent further fighting at UN

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed aside warnings of the dangers of regional war

  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks at an event in Tehran earlier this month. (File)

    Iran’s president calls Israel warmonger as he seeks talks with West

    Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has accused Israel of seeking regional war, as he attempted to cast Tehran as restrained and...

    President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks at a media roundtable in New York on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly meetings

    "We know more than anyone else that if a larger war were to erupt in the Middle East, it would not benefit anyone."

  • An Arab family sit with their belongings in the back of a truck as they wait in a traffic jam in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 23, 2024. The Israeli military has vowed to carry out more "extensive and precise" strikes against Lebanon. (AFP)

    Lebanon Under Attack: Israel murders 35 kids, death toll rises to 492 including 58 women

    Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said the death toll in Israeli strikes Monday rose to 492, including 35 children, the...

    Israeli attacks on Monday wounded 1,200 people who were treated in 27 hospitals

    Iran's foreign ministry warns Israel of "dangerous consequences" following deadly strikes in Lebanon

  • Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli air strike in the Lebanese village of Khiam, near the Lebanon-Israel border, on September 23, 2024. The Israeli military vowed to carry out more "extensive and precise" strikes against the Lebanese group Hezbollah. (AFP)

    UN alarmed as Israeli strikes kill more than 180 people in Lebanon

    Lebanon's health ministry said more than 700 were injured on Monday in the worst toll by far in nearly a...

    Iran's foreign ministry warned Israel on Monday of "dangerous consequences" following deadly strikes in Lebanon

    "We are extremely concerned, deeply worried about the escalation in Lebanon," says top UN official