Lebanon’s former central bank governor, Riad Salameh, was arrested on Tuesday during a judicial hearing in the capital Beirut, a senior judicial source told Reuters. Salameh has been charged with financial crimes including money-laundering, embezzlement and illicit enrichment. He...

The Israeli army on Wednesday claimed to have assassinated a field commander from the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in an airstrike near the Syrian-Lebanon border. The army said in a statement that the Israeli Air Force “earlier today struck and eliminated Faris Qasim, a significant...

The leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said his group’s attack on Israel on Sunday targeted a military intelligence base near Tel Aviv around 100 kilometers (70 miles) from the Israel-Lebanon border. The “main target for the operation” inside Israel was...

A Hezbollah official said on Sunday that the group “worked” to make sure its rocket and drone attack against Israel on Sunday in retaliation for a top commander’s killing last month would not trigger a full-scale war. The official, in written comments shared with media outlets, said...