Lebanon's Hezbollah says it has chosen Naim Kassem as its new leader after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Hezbollah says it has chosen Naim Kassem as its new leader after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Hezbollah says it has chosen Naim Kassem as its new leader after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed that two rescue planes be sent immediately to Amsterdam following "a very violent incident" targeting Israelis citizens, his office said on Friday, after attacks linked to a football game were reported. Israel's national security ministry has also urged its citizens in the Dutch city to stay in their hotel rooms following the attacks, the prime minister's office said in a second statement.
Israel has launched an air strike against a site linked to Hezbollah within yards of the runways of Beirut airport.
Ukrainian drones have struck a Russian naval base on the Caspian Sea for the first time.
Ousted defence minister also quoted as saying Netanyahu rejected peace deal against advice of his security officials
Hezbollah rocket attack killed foreign worker in Israel
Brig Gen Itzik Cohen said in a briefing that aid would only be allowed to enter south of the strip, not the north
Five UN peacekeepers were wounded in an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon on Thursday, the United Nations said, in a raid that also killed three civilians.The raid in which the UN peacekeepers were wounded struck near an army checkpoint in south Lebanon's main city Sidon.
Moscow’s increasing use of drones is stretching Ukrainian air defences and ‘terrorising civilians,’ a senior Ukrainian official said.View on euronews
Israeli army says officer’s comments that Palestinians will not be allowed return home were taken out of context
Citizens advised to stay in hotels as clashes erupt in city
Seriously injured and ill Palestinians were evacuated in one of the biggest operations in months.
Former Israeli foreign minister and longtime ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel Katz was sworn in as defence minister on Thursday. Netanyahu had abruptly fired Katz's predecessor, Yoav Gallant, on Tuesday over persistent disagreements during Israel's war in Gaza – a decision largely derided by Netanyahu's opposition. Israel's new Defence Minister Israel Katz was sworn in before parliament on Thursday, after his predecessor's shock dismissal by the prime minister over a breakdown in
Lebanese rescuers pulled 30 bodies out of the rubble after a late-night Israeli strike on an apartment building in the town of Barja, Lebanon’s Civil Defense service said Wednesday as the Mideast wars press on with no signs of abating. There was no statement from the Israeli military and the strike's intended target also was unknown. Barja, a town just north of the port city of Sidon in central Lebanon, has not been regularly targeted so far in the conflict.
The democratically elected Lebanese government did not authorize Hezbollah to initiate this war against Israel.
The UN peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL said in a statement that a convoy bringing newly arrived peacekeepers to south Lebanon was passing by when an Israeli drone strike took place on Thursday, wounding at least five UN workers and killing three civilians. At least five UN peacekeepers were wounded in an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon on Thursday, the United Nations said, in a raid that also killed three civilians.Israel, which has not commented on the incident in Lebanon's Sidon city, l
Newly-elected lawmakers in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory passed a resolution on Wednesday demanding New Delhi restore the partial autonomy of the Himalayan region, a contentious move Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is likely to reject. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government revoked Jammu and Kashmir's partial autonomy in 2019, splitting the state into the two federally administered territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Seoul says all options are on table
STORY: :: Debris from downed Russian drones in Kyiv injures two, damages buildings:: Kyiv, Ukraine:: November 7, 2024Ten buildings were damaged by drone debris, including a medical facility and a business centre, said Serhiy Popko, head of the city's military administration.The attack also caused a fire in a restaurant on the 33rd storey of a building in the wealthy central Pechersk district, and three residential buildings were also damaged in other areas, Popko said.Popko said more than 30 drones had been brought down in and around the capital in the latest overnight attack."Currently, there is no air raid alert in Kyiv. But there are drones in the airspace of Ukraine that may move towards Kyiv," he warned in a message on the Telegram app on Thursday morning.Air raid sirens sounded again in Kyiv shortly after 9.00 a.m. (0700 GMT).Large-scale drone attacks have become a nightly danger for Kyiv residents over the past month as Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, increased the number of drones launched against Ukraine.
STORY: Timelapse video captures multiple Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, subjected to two waves of bombing, one late Wednesday and another early Thursday.At least one strike was just meters from the runways of Beirut's airport. This was the scene of devastation on Thursday morning - whole swathes reduced to rubble.Testament to how negotiations to stop the war stalled ahead of the U.S. election.A Hezbollah lawmaker, asked about U.S. Republican Donald Trump's election victory, said the armed group welcomed any effort to stop the war in Lebanon but didn't pin its hopes for a ceasefire on a particular U.S. administration.Ibrahim al-Moussawi said it wanted to see U.S. actions, not words.Israel's government has welcomed Trump's return to power, saying he was a leader who would support them "unconditionally."The Israel military has repeatedly battered strongholds of the Iranian-backed armed group Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs, and in the south and east of the country.Further south in Sidon, a damaged bus belongs to a United Nations peacekeepers' convoy.The Lebanese army said an Israeli strike on a car passing through a checkpoint killed three Lebanese citizens and wounded three Lebanese soldiers and four Malaysian personnel with the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission.Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure and military assets, while avoiding civilians, but Lebanese authorities and Hezbollah point to the widespread damage and soaring death toll.More than 3,000 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon over the last year, the vast majority in the escalation of the past six weeks.Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire for more than a year, in parallel with the Gaza war.Some of the most deadly of the latest Israeli strikes were in the eastern Bekaa valley on Wednesday.Lebanon's health ministry said at least 40 people were killed around the city of Baalbek.This historic Ottoman-era building next to the city's famed Roman temples was also destroyed.It was the closest Israel has come yet to striking the UNESCO-listed site. Since fighting intensified in September, Israeli troops have fought their way into Lebanese villages.The army releasing this footage on Thursday showing Israeli soldiers in a ruined landscape said to be southern Lebanon.
Jan Egeland, head of Norwegian Refugee Council, calls for ceasefire now, release of hostages and peace process to start