JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said that it intercepted a surface-to-air missile fired from Lebanon that was headed for a military drone. A statement said the missile was shot down by air defenses before crossing into Israeli airspace. It said it attacked positions belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in response to the [&he...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israeli bombardment of south Lebanon on Tuesday killed four civilians, two of them journalists, official media said, as Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen television said it employed the two reporters. The Israel-Lebanon border has seen daily exchanges of fire, mainly between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, sin...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese Hezbollah group on Monday said its military operations on the country’s southern border since Oct. 8 have left over 1,500 Israelis injured. “The number of enemy injuries in the settlements adjacent to the border areas with Lebanon reached 1,523,” Hezbollah said in a statement cited by the Lebanese o...
BEIRUT (AA) — Hezbollah announced Saturday that it downed an Israeli drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Galilee Panhandle area. In a statement, the group said that it “shot down an enemy Israeli Hermes 450 aircraft, a multi-mission combat drone, with a surface-to-air missile” in the region close to Lebanon’s souther...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib has described Israel’s killing of Lebanese civilians as a “war crime.” On Sunday, Israel struck a civilian car in southern Lebanon, killing three children and their grandmother, according to Lebanese media. Bou Habib also said his country will file a formal complaint...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah said on Thursday another member has been killed in clashes with Israeli forces on border. The group, however, did not provide details about the circumstances leading to the death of its member. Tension has flared along the border between Israel and Lebanon, with exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezboll...
AMMAN (AA) – Jordan has advised its citizens to refrain from traveling to Lebanon except for “extreme necessity” due to the “exceptional circumstances prevailing in the region.” In a statement, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry stated the advisory is based on emergency plans announced by Lebanese authorities. Since the war...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese group Hezbollah has claimed that it has killed or injured 120 Israeli soldiers since October 8. The Lebanese Al-Manar channel, which is close to Hezbollah, late Tuesday published an infographic attributed to the group’s military media including the toll of Israeli army losses on the Lebanese border over a perio...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) — Lebanese pro-Palestinian resistance group Hezbollah has said that one of its members was killed in a border clash with Israeli forces. The Hezbollah member was killed in the southern Lebanese town of Chaqra, the group said in a statement, without providing details about the circumstances leading to his death. Amid the [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border are simmering, with frequent skirmishes reported since the October 7 attacks in Gaza. An Israeli drone on Saturday targeted border towns in southern Lebanon, the official Lebanese news agency said, explaining that a spy aircraft had been flying over the area since the morning. Separat...
