BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah announced on Saturday that its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah had been “martyred” following what it described as a “treacherous Zionist raid” on the southern suburb of Beirut. In a statement, Hezbollah declared: “Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah, has joined his gr...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Israeli army spokesperson on Saturday claimed that Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, was killed in a major airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb. Nasrallah was reportedly killed in “intense and unprecedented” airstrikes Friday evening by Israeli F-35 jets on a ta...
ANKARA (AA) – Hezbollah’s top military commander Ahmed Wahbi as well as 14 of its fighters were killed in an Israeli raid targeting Beirut’s southern suburb on Friday, the Lebanese group said. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 66 people were injured in an Israeli airstrike, with nine in critical condition. The Israeli army said ...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Batoul and her family have been scrambling to secure housing outside Beirut’s southern suburbs where an Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander last week, but spiking demand has sent prices soaring. Many in the southern suburbs — a packed residential area known as Dahiyeh which is also a Hezbo...
Washington, United States – AFP An Israeli strike that killed a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and the killing of the political leader of Hamas in Tehran “don’t help” regional tensions but there are no signs of an imminent wider conflict, the White House said Wednesday. “These reports over the last 24, 48 hours cer...
BEIRUT (AA) – Flights at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport have resumed after airlines reported delays and cancellations. The airport’s online data indicated that several flights landed on Monday morning from key destinations, including Amman, Dubai, Doha, and Larnaca. However, morning departures from the airport pr...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on Wednesday urged warring parties in the Middle East to accept “peace proposals”, saying the region including Lebanon “doesn’t need war”. “The Middle East is going through a critical moment,” Parolin told a press conference in Beiru...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP A Hamas official said on Tuesday that talks seeking a pause in its war with Israel cannot go on “indefinitely”, after US President Joe Biden called on the group to accept a cease-fire deal. “We will not allow the path of negotiations to be open indefinitely while the aggression and the […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel kept bombing Gaza on Wednesday after the army said it is ready for “any scenario” following a drone strike in Lebanon which killed the deputy leader of Hamas, stoking fears of a regional escalation. Although Israel did not claim the Beirut assassination on Tuesday evening, it was widely as...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel’s war against Palestinians reached into the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, where an Israeli strike killed Hamas’s deputy leader, the group and security officials in Lebanon said. A high-level security official told AFP that Saleh al-Aruri was killed along with his bodyguards in the strike by ...
