ISTANBUL (AA) – Israeli army forces staged an incursion into a strategic area in southern Lebanon, in the latest violation of a cease-fire agreement, Lebanese media said. Israeli forces moved into the Wadi al-Hujeir area, firing heavy-caliber machine guns during their advance in the region, the state news agency NNA reported. The Lebanese army...
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Waltz credited Netanyahu for key regional achievements, including weakening Hezbollah and exposing Iran’s air defenses. He said Iran now is vulnerable, with its finances and proxy networks disrupted. Waltz also...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Two former Israeli intelligence officers say that Mossad controlled “every aspect” of the attacks on Lebanon and Syria in September. Planning for the two-day act of terror, which killed 30 and injured over 3,000 on September 17 and 18, began a decade ago by weaponizing walkie-talkies, according to former Mossad offi...
ANKARA (AA) – China has dispatched a new contingent of peacekeepers to join the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to the Ministry of National Defense and state-run media reports. The second group of personnel from China’s 23rd peacekeeping contingent successfully arrived in southern Lebanon, where they joi...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem says the Syrian people have the right to choose their government and constitution. Qassem said in a televised speech that “the regime in Syria has fallen at the hands of new forces that we cannot judge until they stabilize, take clear positions, and establish order.” “We h...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army has struck a home in northern Lebanon and demolished several buildings in the country’s south, in the latest violation of a cease-fire deal between Tel Aviv and Beirut, Lebanese media said. Israeli aircraft fired a missile into a 3-story home in Qleiaat town in Akkar province, but the missile […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has claimed to have killed a Hezbollah representative to the Syrian regime in an airstrike in the capital Damascus. In a statement, Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee identified the representative as Salman Nimer Juma’a. “Juma’a played a pivotal role, on behalf of Hezbollah, within the Syrian military ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz has threatened to attack Lebanese state targets if a cease-fire deal with Lebanon collapses. “There will no longer be an exemption for the state of Lebanon,” Katz said during a visit to the border area with Lebanon. On Tuesday, at least 10 people were killed in overnight ...
BEIRUT (AA) – Israel killed at least 10 people in overnight airstrikes in southern Lebanon, marking the deadliest violations of the cease-fire agreement reached last week, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Tuesday. A ministry statement said an Israeli strike killed six people and injured two others in the town of Haris in Bint Jbeil [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The White House says that a nearly week-old cease-fire agreement in Lebanon is “largely” being respected after Hezbollah responded to a series of deadly Israeli strikes across the country in spite of the cease-fire deal. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby described Israel’s attacks since...
