The Trump administration on Thursday issued new sanctions targeting Hezbollah, measures that coincided with Israel ramping up its airstrikes on Lebanon. The US Treasury Department said that it sanctioned individuals whom it accused of funneling tens of millions of...
Israel’s long-threatened escalation of their attacks on Lebanon seems to have begun in earnest on Thursday, with massive numbers of strikes reported against several towns and villages in the country’s south. The IDF issued evacuation warnings for at least five sites...
Israeli drones attacked a car in the southern Lebanese town of Burj Rahal today, killing one person and wounded another, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. This was the latest in an ever-increasing series of escalating Israeli strikes on the area, with threats...
Israel is continuing with its daily attacks on southern Lebanon, and further escalation may be in the offing, with Israel’s military assessment dismissing the idea of diplomacy with Lebanon and instead advocating yet further airstrikes and ground invasions. An...
Israel carried out two deadly airstrikes against southern Lebanon today, part of an ongoing escalation that has led to an ever-growing number of strikes and fatalities in the border area. Today’s strikes left two killed and at least seven wounded. The larger strike...
US envoy Tom Barrack, who last week promised that his visit to Lebanon would be his last and that the US was demanding the country enter negotiations with Israel, is back to railing against the Lebanese officials, calling Lebanon a “failed state” over the weekend at a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz continue to threaten further escalation of attacks on southern Lebanon, even as they’ve already substantially increased the number of strikes they carry out in violation of the ceasefire there....
For a country that’s the target of on-again, off-again Israeli invasions, the Lebanese military has historically had little to no involvement in actually fighting them. That may be about to change, however, following a deadly Israeli raid on the Lebanese border town...
US envoy Tom Barrack is heading to Lebanon this week, and according to reports he plans to tell officials this will be the last time, and that Lebanon has “one last chance” to fully disarm Hezbollah and enter into direct negotiations with Israel. While this is in...
After killing three people in strikes on Thursday, Israel has continued to escalate strikes against southern and eastern Lebanon over the weekend, with at least six more people confirmed killed and several others wounded in various attacks. Two were killed and two...
