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Middle East latest: Israeli strike in Beirut kills 9 as troops battle Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

Oct. 03, 2024 09:50 AM EDT

An Israeli airstrike on an apartment in central Beirut has killed nine people, according to Lebanon's health ministry. Israel has been pounding areas of the country where the Hezbollah militant group has a strong presence since late September, but has rarely struck in the heart of the capital. ...

Lebanon’s rescuers struggle to respond to Israeli offensive while under fire and using old equipment

Oct. 02, 2024 10:44 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency unlike anything they had ever seen. About a dozen apartments had collapsed onto the hillside they once overlooked, burying more than 100...

Images offer a close-up look at the site of Nasrallah's assassination

Sep. 30, 2024 02:40 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — More than two days after a massive Israeli airstrike that killed the leader of the Hezbollah militant group, smoke is still rising from the smoldering wreckage. Israel said the Friday night strike targeted a meeting at an underground Hezbollah compound. The blasts...

Witnesses report first Israeli airstrike in central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict, near major transportation hub

Sep. 29, 2024 18:17 PM EDT
BEIRUT (AP) — Witnesses report first Israeli airstrike in central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict, near major transportation hub.

Pope Francis suggests Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon are disproportionate and immoral

Sep. 29, 2024 10:32 AM EDT

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Sunday that Israel's attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate, saying its military domination has gone beyond the rules of war. Francis was asked en route home from Belgium about Israel’s...

Hezbollah confirms 7th senior leader was killed in Israeli strikes in a little over a week

Sep. 29, 2024 08:32 AM EDT
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah confirms 7th senior leader was killed in Israeli strikes in a little over a week.

U.S. military says it killed 37 militants in Syria in airstrikes

Sep. 29, 2024 07:12 AM EDT
BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. military says it killed 37 militants in Syria in airstrikes.

Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike

Sep. 28, 2024 20:03 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founding members, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut. The killing of the powerful militant group’s longtime leader sent shockwaves...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes kill Hezbollah leader Nasrallah

Sep. 28, 2024 19:52 PM EDT

Smoke rose from Beirut’s southern suburbs Saturday after the area was pummeled by heavy airstrikes that Israel said killed multiple Hezbollah commanders, including leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Lebanese militant group confirmed the death of its longtime leader, whose killing could...

Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a 'measure of justice'

Sep. 28, 2024 19:20 PM EDT

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — The Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah was a “measure of justice" for victims of a four-decade “reign of terror,” President Joe Biden said Saturday. The comments came after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed earlier...