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WATCH LIVE: Iran fires dozens of missiles into Israel as retaliation for killing of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders
Iran launched dozens of missiles into Israel, sharply escalating a conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas that began nearly a year ago.
Israel begins ground offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
Israeli ground forces moved into southern Lebanon, marking a significant escalation of an offensive against Hezbollah and opening a new front in a yearlong war against its Iranian-backed adversaries.
Who were the 7 high-ranking Hezbollah officials killed over the past week?
In just over a week, intensified Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed seven high-ranking commanders and officials from the powerful Hezbollah militant group, including the groupโs leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
An Israeli airstrike hits central Beirut for the first time in nearly a year of conflict
The first apparent Israeli airstrike in central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict has hit hours after Israel struck targets across Lebanon and killed dozens of people as the Hezbollah militant group sustained a string of deadly blows to its command structure, including the killing of its overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollahโs Nasrallah a 'measure of justice'
President Joe Biden says the Israeli strike that killed Hezbollahโs Hassan Nasrallah was a โmeasure of justiceโ for what he called a four-decade โreign of terror.โ.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah transformed the militant group into a potent regional force
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who transformed the Lebanese militant group into a potent paramilitary and political force in the Middle East, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike
Lebanonโs Hezbollah group has confirmed that its leader and one of its founders, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes kill Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
Hezbollah has confirmed that its leader of more than three decades, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Who was longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah led the Lebanese militant group for the past three decades, transforming it into one of the most powerful paramilitary groups in the Middle East.
Five days of frantic US diplomacy on Lebanon has yielded little
President Joe Bidenโs administration headed into the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders with high hopes that he could cement his legacy as an international statesman during escalating conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Israel strikes Hezbollah in a huge blast targeting the militant group's leader
The Israeli military says it struck the headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, causing massive explosions that leveled multiple buildings.
What is the 2006 UN resolution that some hope could help to end the Israel-Hezbollah conflict?
In 2006, after a bruising monthlong war between Israel and Lebanonโs powerful Hezbollah militant group, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted for a resolution to end the conflict and pave the way for lasting security along the border.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have killed nearly 700 this week
Lebanon's disaster risk management unit says nearly 700 people been killed in Lebanon this week, as Israel dramatically escalated strikes.
Netanyahu vows to use 'full force' against Hezbollah and dims hopes for a cease-fire
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will continue striking Hezbollah โwith full force,โ dimming hopes for a cease-fire.
US and allies call for an immediate 21-day cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah
The U.S., France and other allies are jointly calling for an immediate 21-day cease-fire to allow for negotiations in the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 600 people in Lebanon.
Israel bombards Hezbollah, killing a top commander, while families flee southern Lebanon
Israel has killed a top Hezbollah commander as part of a two-day bombing campaign that has left more than 560 people dead and prompted thousands in southern Lebanon to seek refuge from the widening conflict.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Two-day death toll from Israeli strikes in Lebanon reaches 564
Lebanese health authorities have raised the death toll from two days of Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah militants in Lebanon to 564.
US is sending more troops to the Middle East as violence rises between Israel and Hezbollah
The Pentagon says the U.S. is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East in response to a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon that is raising the risk of a greater regional war.
Is this war? The Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is hard to define โ or predict
Israel is bombing targets across many parts of Lebanon, striking senior militants in Beirut and apparently hiding bombs in pagers and walkie-talkies.
Israeli strikes kill 492 in Lebanon's deadliest day of conflict since 2006
Lebanon's health ministry says Israeli strikes on Monday killed more than 490 Lebanese, including more than 90 women and children, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as the Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of a widening air campaign against Hezbollah.
Hezbollah hits back with rockets as it declares an 'open-ended battle' with Israel
Hezbollah has launched more than 100 rockets across a wider and deeper area of northern Israel and Hezbollahโs deputy leader Naim Kassem said Sunday that his group is now in an open-ended battle with Israel.
Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says
The United Nations human rights chief says weaponizing ordinary communication devices represents a new development in warfare.
Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli airstrike was top military official on US wanted list
The Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirutโs southern suburbs was one of the Lebanese militant groupโs top military officials.
What to know after Israelโs assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
The assassination of Hezbollah's leader by Israel is a monumental and demoralizing blow to the Lebanese militant group he led for 32 years.
Rare Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills Hezbollah commander and more than a dozen others
Israel has launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood.
Israel warned the US that an operation in Lebanon was coming but gave no details, officials say
U.S. officials say Israel warned U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a call Tuesday that a military operation was going to take place in Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader vows retaliation against Israel for attacks on devices as both sides trade strikes
The leader of Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for this weekโs deadly attacks on the groupโs communications devices.
Israel-Hamas war latest: 20 killed, 450 wounded in second day of explosions in Lebanon
Lebanonโs health ministry says at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of the country.
Lebanon is rocked again by exploding devices as Israel declares a new phase of war
Israel's defense minister declares a โnew phaseโ of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices.
Israel has a long history of pulling off complex attacks like the exploding pagers
Thousands of pagers used members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people and wounding several thousand, officials said.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Pagers explode across Lebanon and parts of Syria
Hundreds of handheld pagers have exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria, killing at least nine people, government and Hezbollah officials say.
Israel says halting Hezbollah attacks is now a war goal as officials warn of a wider operation
Israel says that halting Hezbollahโs attacks in the country's north to allow its residents to return to their homes there is now an official war goal as it considers a wider military operation in Lebanon.
Blinken is heading back to the Middle East, this time without fanfare or a visit to Israel
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Egypt this week on his 10th trip to the Middle East since the war in Gaza began nearly a year ago.
Its economy and infrastructure battered, can Lebanon afford a war with Israel?
The ferocious exchange of fire by Hezbollah and the Israeli military is raising fears of a regional war beyond the tense border.
It looked like Israel and Hezbollah had gone to war, but then they pulled back. Here's what to know
Israel and Lebanonโs Hezbollah pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire over the weekend that briefly raised fears of an all-out war.
What is the latest on the high-stakes negotiations over a cease-fire in Gaza?
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to meet with Israelโs prime minister on Monday as mediators say they are closing in on a deal to halt the war in Gaza and free hostages captured by Hamas.
An Israeli strike in Lebanon kills 10 and triggers response from Hezbollah as tensions simmer
Lebanonโs Health Ministry says an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon has killed at least 10 Syrian nationals including a woman and her two children.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Palestinian death toll surpasses 40,000 as mediators hold cease-fire talks
The White House says talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war have resumed in Doha and are expected to run into Friday.
Lebanon's health care system in tatters but still preparing for a possible wider war with Israel
Lebanonโs health care system has been battered by multiple crisis but is now preparing for the possibility of a devastating wider conflict with Israel.
Israel-Hamas war latest: International calls for cease-fire grow after assassinations in the Mideast
The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintain an aircraft carrier in the region.
Israel-Hamas war latest: A cease-fire is key to ending the region's cycle of violence, Blinken says
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for โall partiesโ in the Middle East to avoid escalatory actions that could plunge the region into further conflict.
For Iran and Hezbollah, calibrating response to Israeli strikes leaves no room for error
Two back-to-back strikes in Beirut and Tehran targeted high-ranking figures in Hezbollah and Hamas and have been attributed to Israel.
What to know about the escalating conflict and Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks after 2 assassinations
A pair of assassinations of anti-Israel militant leaders hours apart is threatening to set off a regional clash and upend already fragile talks toward ending the war in Gaza.
Two strikes on militant leaders risk inflaming a Middle East on edge
The targeting of two senior militant leaders in two Middle Eastern capitals within hours of each other โ with each strike blamed on Israel โ risks rocking the region at a critical moment.
The war in Gaza might complicate Haniyeh's replacement. Here are the possible contenders
The militant Palestinian group Hamas has a history of swift and smooth replacement of fallen leaders killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel says it killed one of Hezbollah's commanders in Beirut strike
Israel has struck the Lebanese capital of Beirut and says it killed the militant commander allegedly behind a rocket strike that killed 12 youths.
A cratered field, a mangled fence. Clues emerge from strike that killed 12 children in Golan Heights
Two days after a rocket slammed into a soccer pitch in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights, killing 12 children, many questions remain about the attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams.
Netanyahu vows retaliation against Hezbollah after weekend strike as US warns against escalation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel's response would be "severe" as he blamed Hezbollah for a weekend rocket strike from Lebanon that killed 12 children.
Israel-Hamas war latest: US cautions Israel over escalation with Hezbollah after weekend attack
The United States is cautioning Israel about escalation with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah as Israel weighs its response to a rocket attack from Lebanon over the weekend that killed 12 youths in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.
An Israeli strike in Syria kills a former bodyguard of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader, official says
An official with the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group says an Israeli strike in Syria killed a former bodyguard of the group's leader.
Hezbollah fires over 200 rockets into Israel after killing of senior commander
The Lebanese Hezbollah group says it's launched over 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.
Israeli strike kills another senior Hezbollah commander as diplomats scramble for calm in Lebanon
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon has killed a senior Hezbollah commander as tensions continue to boil.
Hezbollahโs deputy leader says group would stop fighting with Israel after Gaza cease-fire
The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says the only definite path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza.
US and Europe warn Lebanon's Hezbollah to ease strikes on Israel and back off from wider Mideast war
U.S., European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanonโs Hezbollah militants from spiraling into a wider Middle East war that the world has feared for months.
Lebanese officials work to maintain friendly relations with Cyprus following Hezbollah threats
Lebanese government officials are working to maintain friendly relations with Cyprus a day after the militant Hezbollah group threatened to attack the Mediterranean island if it allows Israel to use its territories to attack Lebanon.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group warns archenemy Israel against wider war
The leader of Lebanonโs militant Hezbollah group says it has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all-out war.
Hezbollah vows to intensify attacks against Israel after senior military commander is killed
Hezbollah has vowed to intensify its attacks along the Lebanon-Israel border to avenge the killing of its most senior military commander by Israel since the latest round of violence began eight months ago.
Blinken says some of Hamas' proposed changes to a cease-fire plan in Gaza are workable and some not
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that mediators will keep trying to close an elusive cease-fire deal after Hamas proposed numerous changes to a U.S.-backed plan.
Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on
Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group is introducing new tactics and weapons against Israel as the war in Gaza drags on and Israeli troops enter parts of the southern city of Rafah.
Israel and Iran's apparent strikes and counterstrikes give new insights into both militaries
This monthโs unprecedented direct attacks between Iran and Israel are revealing deeper insights into both militaries.
Iran's foreign minister accuses US of giving Israel 'green light' to attack consulate in Syria
Iranโs foreign minister has accused the United States of giving Israel the โgreen lightโ for a strike on its consulate building in Syria that killed seven Iranian military officials, including two generals.
Tehran vows response after strike blamed on Israel destroyed Iran's Consulate in Syria and killed 12
Iran has vowed to respond to a deadly airstrike widely attributed to Israel that demolished Iranโs consulate building in the Syrian capital and killed 12 people, including two Iranian generals.
3 UN military observers, a Lebanese interpreter wounded in blast while patrolling southern border
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon says three United Nations military observers and a Lebanese interpreter have been wounded when a shell exploded near them while patrolling the southern Lebanese border.
Lebanese Sunni militant group head says coordination with Shiite Hezbollah is vital to fight Israel
The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel on Lebanonโs border says the conflict has helped strengthen cooperation between the two groups.
Austria's top diplomat appeals for a pause in Mideast fighting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
Austriaโs foreign minister has urged Israel and Lebanonโs militant Hezbollah group against escalating the conflict along the volatile Israel-Lebanon border.
Israel's air force strikes deep inside Lebanon, killing 2 people, after Hezbollah downs a drone
The Israeli military says its air force has struck targets of the militant Hezbollah group deep inside Lebanon.
Israel vows to target Lebanon's Hezbollah even if cease-fire reached with Hamas in Gaza
Israelโs defense minister vowed to step up attacks on Lebanonโs Hezbollah militant group even if a cease-fire is reached with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
State media say an Israeli strike kills 2 in a Damascus residential area. Another kills 2 in Lebanon
Syria's state TV says an Israeli strike that hit a residential area in the country's capital of Damascus has killed two people.
Israeli airstrikes killed 10 Lebanese civilians in a single day. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate
Lebanon's state-run news agency says the civilian death toll from two Israeli strikes in Lebanon the day before has now risen to 10, making it the single deadliest day in more than four months of near-daily cross-border exchanges.
A look at the arsenals of Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia as cross-border strikes escalate
The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanonโs Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces has escalated, reviving fears that the daily clashes could expand into an all-out war.
Israel and Lebanon are prepping for a war neither wants, but many fear it's becoming inevitable
The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanonโs Hezbollah militia terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israelโs war against Hamas in Gaza.
An Israeli strike on a Damascus area where Iran-backed groups operate caused casualties, Syria says
The Syrian military says an Israeli airstrike on a Damascus suburb has killed and wounded several people.
Strike kills Hezbollah fighter, civilian in Lebanon, amid seeming Israeli shift to targeted killings
Lebanese state media and health officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon.
An Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, officials say
Syrian and Iranian officials and media say an Israeli strike on the Syrian capital of Damascus has killed five Iranian advisers with the expeditionary Al Quds force belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Hezbollah launches drone strike on base in northern Israel but military says there's no damage
Hezbollah says it launched a drone strike at the Israeli armyโs northern headquarters in retaliation for recent strikes in Lebanon that killed top Hamas and Hezbollah officials.
Blinken urges Israel to engage with region on postwar plans that include path to Palestinian state
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling on Israel to work with moderate Palestinians and neighboring countries on plans for postwar Gaza.
Israeli strike kills an elite Hezbollah commander in the latest escalation linked to the war in Gaza
An Israeli airstrike has killed an elite Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon.
Israel says Hezbollah struck sensitive air traffic base in the north and warns of 'another war'
Hezbollah has struck an air traffic control base in northern Israel, the Israeli military says.
Hezbollah, Israel trade heavy cross-border fire as Blinken seeks to prevent regional escalation
Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah have traded fire in one of the heaviest days of cross-border fighting in recent weeks.
Israel's Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strike
The chief of Israelโs Mossad has vowed the intelligence agency will hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no matter where they are.
A Hamas official killed in a Beirut strike had been on Israel's hit list for years
Saleh Arouri, the deputy political head of Hamas and a founder of the groupโs military wing, had been in Israelโs sights for years before he was killed in a drone strike in a southern suburb of Beirut.
Apparent Israeli strike kills senior Hamas figure in Beirut and raises fears conflict could expand
An apparent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has killed Hamasโ No. 2 political leader, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israelโs war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict.
On foot and by donkey cart, thousands flee widening Israeli assault in central Gaza
Thousands of Palestinian families are fleeing from the brunt of Israelโs expanding ground offensive into Gazaโs few remaining, overcrowded refuges.
France urges Lebanese leaders to work on bringing calm along the border with Israel
Franceโs foreign minister is urging Lebanese leaders to work on reducing tensions along the border with Israel, warning that the raging Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month, could spread to other parts of the region.
US national security adviser says a negotiated outcome is the best way to end Lebanon-Israel tension
U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he has discussed with Israeli officials the volatile situation along the Lebanon-Israel border.