The US has deployed dozens of troops to Cyprus amid Israel's dramatic escalation of its bombing campaign in Lebanon, CNN reported on Wednesday. US officials said the troops are preparing for a range of contingencies, including the possibility of helping evacuate US...
Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), said Wednesday that the Israeli military was "preparing" for a potential ground offensive in Lebanon. Halevi told a group of IDF soldiers that their "military boots will enter enemy territory"...
President Biden delivered a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday and claimed that he was working to bring a "greater measure of peace and stability to the Middle East" even though his administration continues to provide full-throated support for...
Israel launched an airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday as it continues heavy airstrikes in Lebanon following a dramatic escalation on Monday. Israel said the Beirut strike, which targeted the city's southern suburbs, killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, a senior...
Lebanese Health Minister Dr. Firass Abiad told The New York Times on Tuesday that the "overwhelming majority, if not all," of the people killed and wounded by Israel's bombardment in Lebanon on Monday were civilians. The death toll from Lebanon's Health Ministry puts...
Update: Lebanon's Health Ministry said Tuesday that 558 have been killed, including 50 children and 94 women, and 1,835 have been wounded Israel dramatically escalated its military operations in Lebanon on Monday, launching strikes against residential areas across the...
The Pentagon said Monday that it's sending additional troops to the Middle East after Israel significantly escalated its bombing campaign in Lebanon earlier in the day. Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said, "In light of increased tension in the Middle East and...
Sheikh Naim Kassem, the deputy leader of Hezbollah, said Sunday that the Lebanese group is in a "new phase" of its fight with Israel following a series of Israeli escalations in Lebanon. Kassem described the new phase as an "open-ended battle of reckoning" and said...
Before thousands of pagers blew up in Lebanon on Tuesday, Israel informed the US that it was preparing an operation in the country but didn't say what it was, CNN reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The sources said that Israeli Defense...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech on Thursday and said Israel "crossed all red lines" by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon over the past two days. "With this operation, the enemy crossed all laws and red lines. It didn't care...
