Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said Sunday his group was in a “new phase” in its battle against Israel, which it has waged from across the Lebanese border since the Gaza war erupted. “We have entered a new phase, namely an open reckoning” with Israel, Qassem said at the funeral...

The death toll from Friday’s Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut has risen to 45, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said that recovery efforts, coordinated with relevant security agencies, continued for the third consecutive day....

Lebanese Hezbollah said on Sunday that it bombed Israeli military industrial complexes north of Haifa, with Israel saying three people were injured in the attack. In a statement, the group said it targeted strategic military sites, specifically the complexes of Rafael Electronics Company north...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked to meet Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of UN talks in New York next week to normalize ties. Turkey and Syria severed diplomatic relations in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian war, but Erdogan has sought...