Lebanon’s health minister said Thursday that more than 40 paramedics and firefighters had been killed by Israeli fire in three days, among 97 killed since Hezbollah and Israel began fighting last October. Firass Abiad told reporters that in three days 40 people “among those working in...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei  warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said. In the immediate aftermath...

Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general Naim Qassem said the group would appoint a new leader at the earliest opportunity to replace Hassan Nasrallah and vowed that the Iran-backed group would continue fighting Israel. Qassem’s 19-minute, televised address marked the first by a top...

The Israeli military said it had struck around 800 Hezbollah targets as part of the deadliest strikes on Lebanon since fighting started last October. “Since this morning, the IDF (military) has conducted proactive and extensive aerial strikes against Hezbollah terrorist targets in...