Airstrikes come as Hezbollah threatens civil war if Lebanon tries to disarm it; Lebanese PM says threats unacceptable, Beirut will do whatever is necessary for peace and stability

Israeli drones on Thursday dropped warning leaflets over the southern Lebanese town of Shebaa, cautioning residents to stay away from designated areas near the border, local media said. The leaflets highlighted an area in red and urged locals not to approach it, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA reported.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburb on Oct. 3. 2024. AFP via Getty Images At least six people were killed and seven wounded ...

11:42 PM: Analysis from Frances Vinall Israeli forces were attacking Hezbollah targets in Beirut early Saturday, the IDF said in a statement about 4:45 a.m. local time.

In Beirut, Israel said the strikes overnight targeted a building near a road leading to Lebanon's only international airport and another formerly used by the Hezbollah-run broadcaster Al-Manar.

JERUSALEM — The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict leveled an apartment building early Monday. It came after Israel hit targets across Lebanon and ...

Israel on Friday bombed Beirut for the first time since a fragile ceasefire was reached with Hezbollah in November, after earlier ordering people who were within 300 metres of a building next to a ...

Deadly Israeli strike in Beirut adds to fears the war is escalating Saturday’s attack completely demolished a multistory building in a densely populated neighborhood. Israel did not say who the ...

Israel did not say how it determined the Hezbollah commander was killed or provide evidence of his death. Hezbollah has not commented on Tuesday's strike in Beirut or whether Shukr died.

In Beirut — a city devastated by Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, the 2006 war with Israel and then a gargantuan 2020 accidental port explosion that wiped out 87,000 homes — that attitude comes ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Human Rights Watch alleged Thursday that an Israeli airstrike on a notorious Iranian prison was “an apparent war crime”, while also accusing Tehran of harming and disappearing prisoners after the attack.