Lebanon

The Middle East plunged back into turmoil on Wednesday as fresh strikes hit Iran, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Lebanon, despite a recently announced two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran—raising serious questions over the truce’s…
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Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lebanon on Sunday for a three-day visit that officials have called “historic in timing and content,” coming amid fears that the year-old ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah could collapse and plunge the region…
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The United Nations joined the Lebanese government on Tuesday to appeal for an additional $371.4 million in humanitarian aid for people displaced by the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. The extension builds on an initial aid appeal…
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Israel continued its bombardment of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Sunday, killing over 100 people in a day. It opened another front as it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen amid fears of a wider conflagration in the Middle East. According to…
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Nearly 500 people were killed across southern Lebanon after Israel launched its biggest ariel offensive against Iran-backed Shite militant group Hezbollah since the beginning of war in Gaza on October 7. Lebanese health ministry said around…
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Israel unleashed its most widespread wave of airstrikes against hundreds of Hezbollah targets on Monday, killing at least 100 people by Lebanese tallies, and warned citizens to evacuate areas where it said the armed group was storing…
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At least 20 people were killed and over 450 injured in Lebanon after hand-held radios or walkie talkies used by militant group Hezbollah exploded in multiple parts of the country. The highly sophisticated attack comes a day after a…
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Hand-held radios, or walkie-talkies, used by Hezbollah detonated late Wednesday across southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut, according to Reuters, a day after thousands of pagers belonging to the Iran-backed group exploded…
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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his counterparts from Iran, Turkiye and Lebanon ahead of the United Nations Security Council meeting on Tuesday due to discuss the Middle East, the Russian foreign ministry said. The…
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Families on Wednesday laid to rest victims of a fuel tank blast that killed at least 28 people in northern Lebanon amid anger and sorrow over the crisis-hit country’s latest tragedy. The explosion on Sunday in Al-Tleil in the Akkar region…
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