The Israeli army on Thursday said its death toll from fighting in southern Lebanon rose to nine, as the military continued to target Hezbollah positions across the border. “Captain Ben Zion Falach, aged 21… fell yesterday (Wednesday), during combat in southern Lebanon,” the army said...

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...