On Sunday, members of the Arab Druze community in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights mourned 12 children who were killed when a rocket hit a soccer field in the village of Majdal Shams a day earlier. Israel has pinned the blame for the rocket strike on Hezbollah,...
The deputy leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah reiterated on Tuesday that attacks on northern Israel would only end if there was a ceasefire in Gaza. "If there is a ceasefire in Gaza, we will stop without any discussion," Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim...
A former US military intelligence analyst has warned that Israel is risking a major war in Lebanon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political survival. Former US Army Maj. Harrison Mann resigned from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency earlier this year...
The German newspaper Bild reported on Monday that Israel is planning to invade Lebanon in the second half of July as Israeli forces and Hezbollah continue to trade fire across the border. The report, which cited diplomatic sources, said Israel would launch the assault...
The US has deployed an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East to demonstrate support for Israel amid soaring tensions on the Lebanon-Israel border. The Pentagon announced that the USS Wasp arrived in the eastern Mediterranean Sea last week. The deployment comes...
Iran's mission to the UN has warned Israel that a full-scale attack on Lebanon would result in an "obliterating war" that could involve all of Iran's allies in the region. The mission wrote on X that it believes Israel's recent threats against Lebanon could be...
The Biden administration is concerned that the violence on the Israel-Lebanon border could soon escalate into a full-blown war and that Israel is rushing into the conflict without a clear strategy, Axios reported on Wednesday. US officials told Axios that the...
On Sunday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for the Israeli military to invade and take over southern Lebanon if Hezbollah does not withdraw from the border. Smotrich called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to issue an ultimatum to Hezbollah. "A...
Updated 4/1/24 at 6:00 pm EST On Monday, an Israeli airstrike leveled an Iranian consulate building that's next to the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, marking a significant escalation in Israeli attacks on Iranians in the region. At least seven...
US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday that a truce in Gaza will "not necessarily" extend to Lebanon as Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire across the border. "It does not necessarily happen that when you have a ceasefire in Gaza, it just automatically...
