Lebanon Archives - Page 9 of 11

September 22, 2024 1:42 AM

Israel’s strike on Beirut killed 37, Lebanon says

Rescuers in Beirut hunted on Saturday for people still missing in rubble after an Israeli airstrike targeting Hezbollah commanders the previous day killed at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital, according to authorities. Hezbollah, a...

September 20, 2024 4:17 PM

Israel and Hezbollah trade fire after heaviest airstrikes yet

U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon urged immediate de-escalation as hostilities rumbled on at the Lebanese-Israeli border on Friday, following Israel's most intense airstrikes in nearly a year of conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah. Israel's military ...

September 20, 2024 12:35 PM

Israel unleashes heavy strikes on Lebanon as US, UK urge restraint

Israeli warplanes carried out late on Thursday their most intense strikes on southern Lebanon in nearly a year of war, heightening the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah amid calls for restraint. The White House said a diplo...

September 20, 2024 9:55 AM

Components for pagers used in Lebanon blasts are not from Taiwan, minister says

Components used in thousands of pagers that detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon were not made in Taiwan, Taiwan's economy minister said on Friday. Taiwan-based Gold Apollo said this week it did not manufacture the devices used in the attack, and that th...

September 19, 2024 1:31 PM

Middle East on edge as second wave of explosions in Lebanon kills 20

Hand-held radios used by armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon's south in the country's deadliest day since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel nearly a year ago, stoking tensions after similar explosi...

September 18, 2024 4:15 PM

Hezbollah exploding pager trail runs from Taiwan to Hungary

The detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon has left a mysterious trail from Taiwan to Hungary, while raising the prospect of another full-scale war in the Middle East between the Iran-backed group and arch-foe Israel. Israe...

September 17, 2024 11:18 PM

Eight killed, more than 2,800 wounded in pager detonations across Lebanon, health minister says

At least eight people were killed and 2,750 others including Hezbollah fighters, medics and Iran's envoy to Beirut were wounded on Tuesday (September 17) when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources and the Lebane...

September 17, 2024 3:41 PM

Israel updates war goals with fate of defence minister unclear

Israel on Tuesday added the safe return of its citizens to their homes near the border with Lebanon to its formal war goals amid reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to replace his defence minister with a hawkish rival. Netanyahu's...

August 13, 2024 1:52 PM

Lebanon’s displaced fear a bleak future

Displaced in south Lebanon five times, Kamel Mroue and his wife Mariam are anxious about their next move as they follow the news of clashes between Israel and Hezbollah, fearing border hostilities will turn into all-out war. The parents of three chi...

August 5, 2024 6:06 PM

Lebanon receives medical aid, vacationers leave amid fears of war

Lebanon on Monday received emergency medical supplies to equip its hospitals for possible war injuries and Beirut airport was teeming with people trying to leave the country amid fears a full-scale conflict was on the horizon. Tensions in the region...