Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin was on the phone with the Israeli defense minister as a massive strike was underway on the southern suburbs of Beirut but the US was not involved at all, Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said Friday. “The United States was not involved in this operation and...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will cut short his trip to New York and return to Israel on Friday, his office said in a statement, following an Israeli strike on Hezbollah’s command center in Lebanon’s capital Beirut.

The Israeli army on Friday evening carried out a heavy and unprecedented airstrike on Beirut's southern suburb area, claiming to have attacked the main headquarters of Lebanese group Hezbollah. According to an Anadolu correspondent on the ground, Israeli warplanes launched some 10 airstrikes...

Some 13,500 Syrians have left Lebanon for Syria since the start of Israeli airstrikes on Monday, the Lebanese interior minister said on Thursday.  "There are 13,500 Syrians who left Lebanon to return to Syria," Bassam Mawlawi told a press conference in Beirut. Lebanon hosts 1.8 million...