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BOSTON (AP) — Homeland Security officials on Monday said that a doctor from Lebanon who was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa “openly admitted” to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral. The department’s statement, posted on social media, provides a possible explanation for Dr. Rasha Alawieh’s deportation, which has sparked […]
Reuters Amos Hochstein (L) held talks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) for a second day in Beirut A US envoy has arrived in Israel to continue negotiations on a ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, after reporting “additional progress” during a second day of talks in Beirut. Amos Hochstein, who has led the Biden […]
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Thursday that U.S. negotiators will return to Qatar “in the coming days” in an effort to revive cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. But Mr. Blinken and Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, signaled little reason to believe that Hamas was more […]
Tel Aviv — Just hours after the Biden administration warned Israel over the expanding scope and scale of its military strikes on Lebanon’s capital, the Israeli military said its fighter jets flew to the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh and struck an underground Hezbollah weapons cache. Dahiyeh, considered a stronghold of the Iran-backed, U.S. and […]
A Hezbollah drone attack on an army base in central Israel killed four soldiers and severely wounded seven others on Sunday, the Israeli military said, in the deadliest strike by the militant group since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon nearly two weeks ago. Hezbollah called the attack near Binyamina city retaliation for Israeli […]
When the Sabra family fled Israeli bombardments in the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun for Beirut’s southern suburbs in October last year, a monthly stipend in dollars from Hezbollah meant they did not fear going hungry. When they were displaced a second time, to the mountains around the capital by a
ShareDozens killed in strike on school in Deir al-Balah, Palestinian Red Crescent says More than two dozen people have been killed in a strike by Israeli forces in the area near a school sheltering displaced civilians in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said. The PRCS said that at least 27 […]
Israel has launched what it has described as “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” in southern Lebanon, marking an escalation in its continuing offensive against Hezbollah. According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) the operation is aimed at the Iran-backed group’s “infrastructure” which it says “pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel”. […]
CNN — American-manufactured 2,000-pound bombs were likely used in the Israeli attack that killed Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut on Friday night, according to a review of footage showing . . .
No one inside the White House was crying for Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday. But the Israeli strike that killed Mr. Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, once again deepened tensions between President Biden’s administration and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Israeli officials gave their American counterparts no advance warning of the strike on Friday, according […]