As war progresses between Israel and Gaza, the battle is raising the specter of a wider regional conflict in the Middle East. Whether the militant group Hezbollah — which operates in Lebanon, Israel’s northern neighbor — will become involved, opening a second front of the war, is a central question. Hezbollah and Israel, longtime enemies, … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — The first signs that Gaza’s war could spill deeper into Lebanon arrived quietly in the capital, Beirut. A week after the Hamas militants staged their deadly blitz inside Israel, a banner cropped up in a central Beirut: “Nothing thwarts oppression except for blood.” The message … Read more
In this photo released on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, by the Hezbollah Media Relations Office, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, meets with Ziad al-Nakhleh, the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, center, and Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut, Lebanon. Nasrallah met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials, their first reported meeting … Read more
BEIRUT — Hezbollah announced the deaths of five more militants as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border intensified and the Israeli prime minister warned Lebanon on Sunday not to let itself get dragged into a new war. The tiny Mediterranean country is home to Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim political party with an armed wing of the same … Read more
BEIRUT — Hezbollah announced the deaths of five more militants as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border intensified and the Israeli prime minister warned Lebanon on Sunday not to let itself get dragged into a new war. The tiny Mediterranean country is home to Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim political party with an armed wing of the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Fears mounted Sunday that the Israel-Gaza war could swell into a wider conflict amid rising cross-border attacks on Israel’s north from Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and expanding Israeli airstrikes across the region. Syria’s state news agency said Israel had struck the Damascus and Aleppo … Read more
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Monday it has started destroying surveillance cameras on several Israeli army posts along the border as tension rose following the Israel-Hamas war that began Oct.7. Hezbollah’s military media arm released a video showing snipers shooting at and destroying surveillance cameras placed on five points along the Lebanon-Israel … Read more
Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update returned with the comedy show’s season premiere this weekend. Hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che addressed the most important and dire news of the week: the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East. The hosts didn’t necessarily talk much about the conflict or the Palestinian and Israeli deaths … Read more
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser said on Saturday hostilities with Lebanese Hezbollah in parallel with the Gaza war appeared to be restrained and warned the group not to take action that could lead to Lebanon’s “destruction”. Israel was focusing its fighting on the Palestinian enclave, from which Hamas gunmen wreaked … Read more
Supporters of Lebanon’s Hezbollah party parade to mark the last day of Ashura ceremony in Beirut. Aziz Taher An exchange of fire between Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and the armed forces in northern Israel signal that the conflict in Gaza could spread regionally. With an Israeli ground incursion potentially imminent in the north of the … Read more