Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Monday that he had spoken to Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman to affirm Washington’s commitment to the Kingdom’s defense and to thank him for Riyadh’s work to promote calm in the Middle East. Prince Khalid said the pair reviewed the Saudi-US strategic partnership and ways to bolster defense…
Hezbollah said it launched rockets at a defense company in northern Israel Saturday, the latest attacks after Israel intensified its bombing campaign last week, nearly a year into cross-border clashes with the group. The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it launched “a rocket salvo” towards a “military industries company” east of Acre.
Israel carried out a deadly air raid Thursday on a Hezbollah rescue facility in central Beirut, Lebanese sources said, after multiple Israeli ground troops were killed near the border. The second strike targeting the capital’s center this week follows Iran launching its largest missile attack yet on its arch-foe Israel, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
A US resident from Dearborn, Michigan, has been killed in Lebanon, the American government said on Wednesday, with the man’s friend and neighbors saying he died in an Israeli airstrike. “We are deeply saddened by the death of Kamel Ahmad Jawad and our hearts go out to his family and friends. His death is a tragedy, as…
China called on the United Nations Security Council to take “urgent actions” to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East as Israel launched fresh air strikes in Lebanon. China’s permanent representative to the UN, Fu Cong, said during a Security Council briefing on Wednesday, that it needed to make clear and unequivocal demands to stop…
WASHINGTON: The US has increased its military presence in the Middle East by several thousand troops, sending an array of fighter jets and other aircraft to bolster the protection of US forces and allies.The decision brings the total number of American troops in the region to as many as 43,000, including more than a dozen…
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati called for a ceasefire on Monday in the fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Beirut. According to a statement from his office, Mikati said: “The key to the solution is to put an end to the Israeli aggression…
TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military has launched what it called a “limited, localized” ground offensive in southern Lebanon against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. “These targets are located in villages close to the border and pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel,” the Israeli military said on social media late Monday….
The leader of the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his underground headquarters in Beirut on Friday, Israel and Hezbollah confirmed. Nasrallah, who had led the powerful group for more than 30 years and was a hugely influential figure in the region, died when Israeli fighter jets struck…
The Israeli military said Sunday that it killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike as the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a string of devastating blows and the killing of its overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The military said Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council, was killed on Saturday. There was…
UNITED NATIONS — Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together — not only on front-burner issues but on modernizing the international institutions born after World War II so they can tackle the threats and problems of the future. U.N….
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera aired footage of Israeli…
NAHARIYA, Israel — 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…
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Sept 20- 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…
Hezbollah mourned senior Jihadi commander Hajj Ibrahim Akil who embraced martyrdom on Friday all the way to Al-Quds, according to a statement issued by the Lebanese resistance group. “Today, the great Jihadi leader Hajj Ibrahim Akil (Hajj Abdul Qader) has joined the ranks of his fellow great martyr commanders after a blessed life filled with…
