BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah says it repelled two attempted incursions by Israeli forces into southern Lebanon, resulting in injuries among Israeli soldiers. In a statement, Hezbollah reported that its fighters targeted advancing Israeli troops with artillery and rocket fire in the Labbouneh area, ultimately forc...
BEIRUT (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Tuesday evening that Israel had killed Hashem Safieddine, the potential successor to assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, without directly naming him. Netanyahu made the announcement in a recorded speech, addressing the Lebanese people and delivering unpreceden...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US State Department reacted Tuesday to the support of Hezbollah for efforts by Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to reach a cease-fire with Israel. “Where have they been for a year? For a year, the world has been calling on Hezbollah to stop the attacks across the border into Israel,” spokes...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army deployed a fourth division on Tuesday for its ongoing ground invasion of southern Lebanon. A military statement said the army’s 146th Reserve Division began ground operations in the western sector of southern Lebanon. Three other divisions — the 98th, 36th, and 91st — are already operating in...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel on Tuesday morning claimed that it had killed a senior commander in the Lebanese Hezbollah group in an airstrike carried out on southern Beirut. On Monday evening, the Israeli army announced carrying out a “precise and guided” attack in Beirut’s southern suburb. In a statement, the Israeli army said...
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 ...
