Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, expressed his “full support” for Lebanon Thursday and said he ordered that emergency aid be provided in the face of Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah. “I affirm the State of Qatar’s full support for Lebanon and its brotherly people against...

An Iranian military adviser died Thursday of injuries sustained from an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital, Damascus, early this week. The semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr said Majid Diwani served as a military adviser in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Israel...

Syrian air defenses on Thursday intercepted “hostile” targets over the countryside west of the capital Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported.

Nearly 100 more Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, bringing the overall death toll since last Oct. 7 to 41,788, the Health Ministry in the war-torn territory said on Thursday. A ministry statement added that some 96,794...

A  US  resident from Dearborn, Michigan, has been killed in Lebanon, the American government said on Wednesday, with the man’s friend and neighbors saying he died in an Israeli airstrike. “We are deeply saddened by the death of Kamel Ahmad Jawad and our hearts go out to his family...

At least five were killed and 11 wounded in an Israeli strike on central Beirut’s Bachoura neighborhood early on Thursday, the Lebanese health ministry said in a statement. An Israeli strike hit within Beirut’s city limits, not far from downtown, a security source earlier told Reuters....

US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he does not support an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites following strikes on Israel. Biden also told reporters that there would be more sanctions imposed on Iran and said he would speak soon with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....

The armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a shooting and stabbing attack that killed seven people in Israeli commercial hub Tel Aviv the previous day. “The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades takes responsibility for the heroic Jaffa operation carried out by the fighters from...

The United States warned Iran at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday against targeting it or Israel as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the “deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence must stop” in the Middle East. “Time is running out,” he told the council. The...

Three civilians were killed and three wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Syria’s capital Damascus on Wednesday, the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying. The Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building in the Mezzah suburb in western Damascus, the source said....

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 of...

France on Wednesday condemned a fresh Israeli attack on school and orphanage in northern Gaza. “France strongly condemns the new Israeli strikes in Gaza that targeted a school and an orphanage in northern Gaza, as well as a home in Khan Younis in the south, which left nearly 40 dead according...

At least five Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs early Wednesday, a Lebanese security source said, as the Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah sites and issued several evacuation orders. “At least five Israeli strikes targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs,” the source said,...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Iran and Hezbollah to immediately end their attacks on Israel. “Iran is risking setting the entire region on fire – this must be prevented at all costs,” he said. Germany and its partners will continue to work towards a ceasefire, he added.

Hezbollah says it attacked and repulsed Israeli troops who infiltrated near the town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon, and “inflicted losses and forced them to retreat”.

The Arabic language spokesman of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, has issued orders for people in 24 southern Lebanon villages to “evacuate their homes immediately”. “Anyone who is near Hezbollah elements, installations, and combat equipment is putting his life at risk. Any house used by...

Iran has launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in response to the killing of senior Hezbollah and Hamas officials, sending Israelis rushing to bomb shelters and raising fears of all-out war in the region. Alarms sounded across Israel and explosions could be heard in Jerusalem and Tel...

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has told his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant that Washington had “increased force readiness” in the region in anticipation of the Iranian attack. The call appeared to have taken place before Iran launched hundreds of missiles towards Israel. “The...

Nearly 200 missiles were launched into Israel from Iran, Israeli army radio says Iran's UN mission describes attack on Israel as 'legal, rational, and legitimate response' - social media post. Iran's UN mission says if Israel 'dares to respond or commit further acts of malevolence, a...

(Reuters)- Israel's long history of incursions and invasions in Lebanon 1948 - Lebanon fights alongside other Arab countries against the nascent state of Israel. Around 100,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes in what had been British-ruled Palestine arrive...