Iran says it fired dozens of missiles into Israel as the fighting between Israel and Iranian proxies Hezbollah and Hamas escalated.
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The U.S. is sending a “few thousand” troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to defend Israel if necessary, the Pentagon said Monday.
During a briefing Monday, White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall suggested as many as 600 people hadn’t been accounted for, saying some might be dead.
The Israeli military says it has begun a “limited, localized” operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
The issue appeared to knock out cellphone service for tens of thousands of Verizon users.
The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict leveled an apartment building early Monday, hours after Israel hit targets across Lebanon.
A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Iranian media reported Saturday.
The Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah was a “measure of justice” for victims of a four-decade “reign of terror,” President Joe Biden said Saturday.
The terror group said Saturday that its leader was killed in a Friday Israeli airstrike, along with another Hezbollah commander and an Iranian general.
A big rig carrying lithium batteries that overturned and sparked a fire has snarled operations at the Port of Los Angeles.
Shortly after the prime minister spoke, blasts rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut and the Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah’s headquarters.
The Israeli military said Friday it struck the headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, where a series of massive explosions leveled multiple buildings in the Lebanese capital.
Mahmoud Abbas used the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly as he typically does — to criticize Israel.
Nearly 700 people have been killed in Lebanon this week as Israel targets the military capacity of Hezbollah — the Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist group that is the strongest armed force in Lebanon.
“It took me a long time to breathe,” Laurie Lilliott said of the moment she found her home destroyed in Dekle Beach, Florida.