Beirut, Lebanon — Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a fragile ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November. Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a loud boom and witnessed smoke rising from the area that Israel’s military had warned it would strike. The strike came after … Read more
The Israeli military launched airstrikes on the southern outskirts of Beirut on Friday for the first time since a U.S.-brokered cease-fire came into effect in November, shattering months of tense calm in the Lebanese capital and stoking fears of a further escalation. The bombardment came after rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanese territory … Read more
The Israeli military ordered residents near the Lebanese capital of Beirut to evacuate on Friday for the first time since a U.S.-brokered cease-fire went into effect months ago after rockets were fired on northern Israel. Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israeli military, posted a map on social media with a single building in the … Read more
Iran announced on Thursday it had responded to a letter from President Trump in which the American president had urged direct negotiations with the government in Tehran on a deal to curb the country’s advancing nuclear program. Iran appeared to be taking the middle ground, neither rejecting negotiations with the United States nor accepting face-to-face … Read more
The bombshell publication of a group chat involving Trump administration officials discussing U.S. battle plans revealed in unusually stark fashion what the Trump administration hopes to achieve with airstrikes this month against the Houthi militia in Yemen. The attacks, some of the chat’s participants said, were meant to deter the Houthis from attacking commercial ships … Read more
On his first day in office, Lebanon’s new finance minister, Yassine Jaber, sat at his desk reading a color-coded report on the dire state of the ministry’s operations. Nearly everything was marked in alarming red. The computers were decades old — some still ran on Windows 98. Like much of the government, the ministry relied … Read more
Israel launched a strike on Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets on Israeli targets, killing six people in the heaviest exchange of fire since its ceasefire with the militant group Hezbollah began nearly four months ago. The exchange sparked concern about whether the ceasefire would hold, days after Israel relaunched its war with another Iran-backed militant … Read more
Israel launched airstrikes on Saturday at sites in southern Lebanon that it said were linked to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, hours after rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel for the first time in months. The attacks were the latest example of how the renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza is rippling across the Middle … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon. When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha … Read more