World Dec 01 Syria launches counterattacks against insurgents as Iran’s top diplomat meets with Assad The Syrian military rushed reinforcements to the northwest and launched airstrikes Sunday in an attempt to push back insurgents who seized the country’s largest city of Aleppo, as Iran pledged to help the government counter the surprise offensive.
World Nov 26 Netanyahu says he supports cease-fire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will recommend his Cabinet adopt a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
World Nov 26 Israel bombards central Beirut as its leadership prepares to vote on ceasefire with Hezbollah Tuesday's strike leveled a building, and authorities say at least three people were killed. It was not immediately clear if anyone in particular was targeted.
World Nov 24 Hezbollah fires hundreds of rockets, projectiles into Israel in retaliation for Beirut strikes Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday, wounding seven people in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with cease-fire efforts…
World Nov 20 Israeli officials say under any cease-fire deal they’ll demand the right to strike Hezbollah Israeli officials have demanded freedom to strike Hezbollah in Lebanon as part of any emerging cease-fire deal between the sides, raising a potential complication as a top U.S. envoy was in the region attempting to clinch an agreement.
World Nov 19 U.S. envoy says truce in Israel-Hezbollah war ‘within our grasp’ as conflict in Gaza continues Amos Hochstein, the Biden administration's point man on Israel and Lebanon, arrived on Tuesday as Hezbollah's allies in the Lebanese government said it had responded positively to the proposal.
World Nov 10 Israeli strikes kill dozens in Lebanon and northern Gaza as Netanyahu speaks with Trump Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he has spoken three times with Donald Trump since Tuesday’s election and they “see eye-to-eye regarding the Iranian threat and all of its components.”…
World Oct 29 Fear rises in Lebanese communities where displaced took refuge as Israel strikes deeper into the country Many northern locals feel they have to choose between helping compatriots and protecting themselves.
World Oct 16 Israeli airstrike in Lebanon kills at least 21 in town that has seen its share of deadly attacks Officials say Israeli airstrikes have pounded areas across Lebanon, killing at least 21 people, including more than a dozen in a southern town where Israeli bombardments in previous conflicts are seared into local memory.
World Oct 15 UN calls for investigation into Israeli airstrike on apartment in Lebanon that killed 22 The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation into an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in northern Lebanon that killed at least 22 people.