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Syria reports Israeli airstrikes near the city of Aleppo. A war monitor says 44 people are dead

Mar. 29, 2024 09:58 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army says Israeli airstrikes on Friday near the northern city of Aleppo killed or wounded “a number of” people and caused damage. A war monitor said the strikes killed 44, most of them Syrian troops. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

A Lebanese nun's request to pray for Hezbollah fighters highlights schisms over the group's weapons

Mar. 29, 2024 05:55 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The nun stood in front of a group of young students at a Lebanese Christian school and asked them to pray for the “men of the resistance” in southern Lebanon who she said were defending the country. The men to whom nun Maya Ziadeh was referring are members of the...

Hezbollah fires heavy rockets at northern Israel after deadliest day of Israeli strikes on Lebanon

Mar. 28, 2024 21:36 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired rockets with heavy warheads at towns in northern Israel, saying it used the weapons against civilian targets for the first time Thursday in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes the night before that killed nine, including what the group said...

Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 16, militant rockets kill 1 Israeli as cross-border violence soars

Mar. 27, 2024 18:07 PM EDT

HEBBARIYE, Lebanon (AP) — A series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed 16 people and a barrage of rockets fired by the militant group Hezbollah killed one Israeli man, making Wednesday the deadliest day in more than five months of fighting along the border. Since the...

The Latest | Airstrikes and rocket fire on Lebanon-Israel border as death toll climbs

Mar. 27, 2024 17:50 PM EDT

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has climbed to 16, including several militants and members of paramedic groups, according to Lebanese state media and the militant organizations. And in northern Israel, one man was killed by a barrage of at least 30...

US imposes more Iran sanctions and hits Syrian regime with penalties for drug trafficking

Mar. 26, 2024 12:55 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a money exchanger and a group of firms across six countries involved in commodity shipments and business transactions that benefit Iran's military and the Houthi militant group in Yemen and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. ...

Lebanese Sunni militant group head says coordination with Shiite Hezbollah is vital to fight Israel

Mar. 26, 2024 12:11 PM EDT

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...

Israeli airstrike in northeastern Lebanon wounds 3, local official says

Mar. 23, 2024 20:14 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike deep in northeastern Lebanon early Sunday wounded at least three people, a local official said. The airstrike near the city of Baalbek, a stronghold of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, was the latest to hit the area in recent weeks. ...

Lebanon's displaced celebrate Ramadan amid fears that border conflict might become the 'new normal'

Mar. 23, 2024 01:05 AM EDT

MARWANIEH, Lebanon (AP) — Shortly before sunset on a recent evening, Mervat Reslan and a group of other women made french fries in vats of boiling oil to serve with that night's iftar — the meal that breaks the daily fasts Muslims observe during the holy month of Ramadan. They...

Cyprus minister says a proposal to set up safe zones in Syria for refugees to return is advancing

Mar. 22, 2024 11:39 AM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus government proposal to enable repatriations of Syrian refugees by designating specific areas within the country as safe zones is “gaining ground” among the island nation's fellow European Union member states, the Cypriot interior minister said Friday. ...