New drone footage on Thursday showed the full scale of destruction from Israeli bombardment across southern Lebanon after a cease-fire agreement was reached between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants. For more than 60 days, Lebanese residents have watched stunned as Israeli strikes smashed into buildings, raising giant explosions and palls of smoke in the heart…
By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday that its ceasefire with Hezbollah was breached hours after Lebanese security sources said Israeli tanks attacked six areas of southern Lebanon, calling into question a truce reached after more than a year of fighting. A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah took…
Lebanon’s state media reported a slew of Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, after the Israeli military posted evacuation calls online for parts of the Hezbollah bastion. AFPTV footage showed smoke billowing above the area on Sunday evening, following earlier raids in the afternoon. AFP journalists in the city and its outskirts…
Nov 03, 2024 10:59 PM IST Israel’s recent strikes in eastern Lebanon followed warnings of renewed attacks on Hezbollah. Netanyahu’s visit to the border marked his second this month. An airstrike near Sidon in southern Lebanon killed three people on Sunday, coinciding with bombings in the east and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to…
Israel bombed a Syrian coastal city on Thursday and the United States conducted multiple strikes on targets in Yemen nearly a month into Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Syria, the Huthi rebels in Yemen, Hezbollah and Hamas in Gaza all belong to the so-called axis of resistance led by Iran, which on October 1…
The U.S. is sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, along with US troops to operate it. The Pentagon made the announcement just hours after Iran warned the U.S. to keep its military forces out of Israel. Israel is widely believed to be preparing a military response to Iran’s Oct. 1 attack…
Hezbollah engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli forces attempting to infiltrate the village of Ramya in southern Lebanon on Sunday, the Iran-backed group said. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that an Israeli airstrike early on Sunday morning had completely destroyed a mosque in the southern village of Kfar Tibnit. A person stands by…
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Most Palestinian refugees living in camps in southern Lebanon or near Beirut have fled following escalating Israeli strikes, the head of the United Nations agency on Palestine refugees said on Friday, drawing parallels with mass displacement in Gaza. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told Reuters that the agency continued to provide services to…
Joe Biden has urged Israel against striking Iran’s oil facilities, a day after he said the United States was discussing the possibility of such strikes with its ally. “If I were in their shoes, I’d be thinking about other alternatives than striking oil fields,” Mr Biden told reporters on Friday, adding that he believed Israel…
Shares of oil and gas majors ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Conoco Phillips (NYSE: COP), as well as defense contractor Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), rallied on Tuesday, up 2.8%, 4.2%, and 3.5%, respectively, as of 1:17 p.m. ET, even as the broader indices were down between 1% and 2% at that time. Fortunately for their shareholders,…