JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Monday it deployed a new division for its ongoing ground operation in southern Lebanon. A military statement said the army’s 91st Galilee Division, which includes the 3rd and 8th Reserve Brigades and the Northern Nahal Brigade 228, was dispatched into southern Lebanon. “Since the beginning of the wa...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two major hospitals in Beirut’s southern suburbs are unable to provide service after Israeli forces conducted overnight airstrikes that severely damaged the facilities, a Lebanese medical source said Monday. The source told Anadolu on the condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media that Saint...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army has conducted another airstrike targeting the Masnaa area in eastern Lebanon cutting off the international road linking Lebanon and Syria, according to the Lebanese National News Agency. The attack follows Tel Aviv’s allegations that Hezbollah attempted to “smuggle weapons across the border.” Le...
ANKARA (AA) — The Israeli army has claimed that Mohammad Rashid Sakafi, the commander of Hezbollah’s communications unit, was “assassinated in a targeted airstrike” on Beirut on Thursday. In a statement, the Israeli army claimed that Sakafi, a senior figure in the Lebanese group, was killed in a “precise, intelligence-based strike....
ANKARA (AA) – At least seven people were killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon, state-run media reported. According to the National News Agency, four paramedics were killed by Israeli shelling near Marjayoun Governmental Hospital in southern Lebanon. The Marjayoun Governmental Hospital stopped operating ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Thursday it was not aware that the leader of Hezbollah had agreed to a cease-fire shortly before he was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. “I can tell you that, if that’s true, it was never communicated to us in any way,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told […]
ATHENS (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the Israeli strike in Beirut that killed seven people as a violation of international humanitarian law. The “IDF targeted once again healthcare workers overnight, in central Beirut: 7 people including paramedics were killed,” he said on X. “Not only are civilians the v...
BEIRUT (AA) – Seven paramedics with the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Authority were killed in an Israeli strike on a civil defense center in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Thursday, the emergency medical service said. The victims included the head of the Civil Defense Service in Beirut, Raja Zreik, in the late-night attack that targeted...
LONDON (AA) – UK forces have been involved in supporting Israel following a missile attack launched by Iran, according to the British media. The attack came in retaliation for recent strikes that killed key figures from Hezbollah, Hamas, and a senior Iranian commander. Prime Minister Keir Starmer reaffirmed the UK’s stance, declari...
YEMEN (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi group has claimed attacking Israeli “military targets” with cruise missiles amid ongoing regional tensions as Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. In a statement, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree announced attacking military targets “in the depth of the Zionist...
