HEBBARIYE, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon killed seven of its members early Wednesday and triggered a rocket attack from Lebanon that killed one person in northern Israel, officials said. The strike on the village of Hebbariye came after a day […]
An Israeli air strike on a paramedics centre linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon has killed seven of its members, officials said. The incident triggered a rocket attack from Lebanon that killed one person in northern Israel. The Israeli strike on the village of Hebbariye came after a day of air […]
BEIRUT (AP) — The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel on Lebanon’s border said Tuesday that the conflict has helped strengthen cooperation between the two groups. The Secretary-General of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, Sheikh Mohammed Takkoush said […]
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities Friday detained a suspected French drug dealer a few days after releasing him on bail, judicial officials said. The officials said members of Lebanon’s General Security Directorate detained Abdel Karim Touil at the request of the country’s prosecutor general and he was being held at the Justice Palace in Beirut. […]
An Israeli drone strike has struck a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon, killing at least two people and injuring two others, security officials said. The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war, a drone attack last month that killed three US troops in north-eastern Jordan near […]
An Israeli drone strike has struck a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon, killing at least two people and injuring two others, security officials said. The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war, a drone attack last month that killed three US troops in north-eastern Jordan near […]
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has met Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati to discuss the current tensions between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah. The talks in the capital Beirut are likely to focus on the question of how a wider conflagration in the region can be prevented in view of the intensifying clashes […]
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has condemned Isreal for a Beirut explosion which, Hezbollah sources say, killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri. “The explosion is an Israeli crime that clearly aims to bring Lebanon into a new phase of confrontations after the ongoing daily attacks in the south,” Mikati said, referring to escalation of […]
Israeli shelling in the Lebanese border town of Maroun El-Ras on Thursday killed an elderly woman in her 80s and wounded her husband, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said. The Israeli military said it launched artillery and airstrikes on Hezbollah militant positions in southern Lebanon late on Wednesday and early on Thursday. It did not […]