Concerns over a wider conflict in the Middle East have prompted international airlines to suspend flights to the region or to avoid affected air space. Below are some of the airlines that have adjusted services to and from the region: Air Algerie The Algerian airline suspended flights to and from Lebanon until further notice. Air … Read more
Thousands of Australians in Lebanon are being warned to leave immediately as rocket exchanges with Israel narrow the window to escape safely. Foreign Minister Penny Wong expressed alarm at the escalation of the conflict and called for Australians to get out, while spearheading a push to better protect humanitarian workers in conflict zones. Australia was … Read more
Hezbollah hurled dozens of projectiles into Israel early Wednesday, including a missile aimed at Tel Aviv that was the militant group’s deepest strike yet and marked a further escalation after Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed hundreds of people. The Israeli military said it intercepted the surface-to-surface missile, which set off air-raid sirens in Tel Aviv … Read more
Israeli President Isaac Herzog threatened further military action against Hezbollah one day after Israel launched air strikes across Lebanon, killing more than 550 people in the country’s deadliest day in nearly two decades. It marks a dramatic escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah following nearly 12 months of strikes since … Read more
Beirut: Israeli air strikes on Lebanon killed at least 492 people on Monday, including 35 children, the health ministry said, marking the deadliest day of cross-border violence since the Gaza war began. Arab states strongly condemned Israel for the escalating hostilities with Hezbollah, which have intensified to levels unseen in nearly a year. The war … Read more
Israel has attacked hundreds of Hezbollah targets in air strikes that Lebanese health authorities say killed at least 270 people, marking the deadliest escalation since the 2006 conflict and the deadliest day in nearly a year of conflict. After some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges of fire since the hostilities flared, Israel warned people to … Read more
Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa, as Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Lebanon. A Hezbollah leader declared an “open-ended battle” was underway as both sides appeared to be spiraling closer toward all-out war. The overnight rocket barrage was in response to Israeli … Read more
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has condemned a political cartoon published on the National Review’s website that shows a pager exploding on her desk. “This racism will incite more hate + violence against our Arab & Muslim communities, and it makes everyone less safe,” the Palestinian American congresswoman wrote Friday on X. “It’s disgraceful that the … Read more
Chris Knayzeh was in a town overlooking Lebanon’s capital when he heard the rumbling aftershock of the 2020 Beirut port blast. Hundreds of tons of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates had exploded, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands. Already struggling with the country’s economic collapse, the sight of the gigantic mushroom cloud unleashed by … Read more
Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to press on with a new military campaign until it is able to secure the area around the Lebanese border. The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Ibrahim Aqil had been killed along with … Read more
