NEW YORK (AP) — Biden says ‘all-out war is still possible’ as Israel-Hezbollah fighting escalates but he's hopeful off-ramp can be found.
The operation went almost without a hitch. Swooping low over the horizon in the early dawn light, the helicopters disgorged their cargo of commandos into a dried-out riverbed.
Since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon, Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants have clashed along the border while the Lebanese army has largely stood on the sidelines. It's not the first time the national army has found itself watching war at home from the discomfiting position of bystander. Lebanon's widely beloved army is one of the few institutions that bridge the country's sectarian and political divides.
The fragile truce between rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia could unravel if Gulf states allow Israel to use their airspace to strike Iran.
Putin casualties reach more than 600,000 in Ukraine since the war began in 2022, says US
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah is preparing for a long war of attrition in south Lebanon, after Israel wiped out its top leadership, with a new military command directing rocket fire and the ground conflict, two sources familiar with its operations said. Hezbollah has been diminished by three weeks of devastating Israeli blows - most notably the killing of its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Friends and foes alike are now watching how effectively it resists Israeli troops that have crossed into Lebanon with the stated aim of driving it away from the border.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it was "outraged" by what it said was an Israeli military attack on U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon and demanded that Israel refrain from any "hostile actions" against them. A U.N. source said that Israeli forces had fired at an observation post belonging to the UNIFIL peacekeeping force at its main base at Naqoura in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding two people.
For the first time in almost half a century, Israel is at war during the Jewish day of atonement, Yom Kippur. Religious observant Jews are at home. In Gaza, Israel has launched a ground offensive in recent days in the same place for the third time.
A series of U.S. airstrikes targeted several camps run by the Islamic State group in Syria in an operation the U.S. military said will disrupt the extremists from conducting attacks in the region and beyond. The U.S. Central Command said the airstrikes were conducted Friday, without specifying in which parts of Syria. About 900 U.S. troops have been deployed in eastern Syria alongside the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces that were instrumental in the fight against IS militants.
STORY: :: Demonstrators clash with police as fires burn on the French island of Martinique:: Le Lamentin, Martinique, France :: October 10-11, 2024The protests disrupted flights at the Martinique airport which were re-directed to the neighboring French island of Guadeloupe, the local French administration for Martinique said.France announced on Friday new curfew measures to try and quell civil unrest on the Caribbean island, which has been hit by violent protests over the last month due to anger over rising living costs.Martinique's local administration said it was banning public gatherings until Oct. 14, and banning the purchase of products that could be used for arson attacks.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Israel should "stop killing innocent people", and that its actions in the Middle East were backed by the United States and the European Union. Pezeshkian was speaking to a Russian state TV reporter on the sidelines of an international meeting in Turkmenistan. Israel in recent weeks has sharply escalated its assault on Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, including by killing its top leaders, sending ground troops into southern Lebanon and bombing the capital Beirut.
Northern Ireland-style policing of protests could be considered as an alternative to Parliament’s “permissive” approach, the head of Scotland Yard has said.
At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Olga Galkina tried in vain to liven up a group of fellow Russian exiles standing in the rain at a demonstration.- 'In the same trench' - Berlin is home to thousands of Russian anti-Kremlin exiles and Ukrainian refugees.
Exclusive: Strike that killed 22 is first time US-made munition confirmed to have been used in attack on central Beirut since 2006
Roughly 400,000 people trapped in latest offensive with most of territory under evacuation orders
Palestinians in northern Gaza described heavy Israeli bombardment Saturday in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people, as Israel warned people there and in southern Lebanon to get out of the way of offensives against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups. In Lebanon, the U.N. peacekeeping force said that its headquarters in Naqoura was hit again, with a peacekeeper struck by gunfire late Friday and in stable condition.
Metula is surrounded on three sides by the border with Lebanon and therefore Hezbollah, the enemy. Anti-tank missiles, suicide drones, Burkan rockets, and Iranian-built Grad missiles have all come its way. Metula is so close to Lebanon there can be only a few seconds warning, rarely enough to reach the shelters.
The Israeli military on Saturday renewed its orders for Palestinian in the northern Gaza Strip to leave their homes and shelters as troops press on a weeklong offensive against militants. Most of the fighting in the past week was centered in and around Jabaliya that was pounded by Israeli war jets and artillery. In Lebanon, authorities said Friday that 60 people were killed and 168 wounded in the past 24 hours, raising the total toll over the past year of conflict between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah to 2,229 dead and 10,380 wounded.
Two incidents in Lebanon prompt growing concern over Israel’s escalating campaign and the spreading Middle East conflict
Loud bangs sounded, thick columns of smoke rose and ambulance sirens rang throughout the night as deadly Israeli strikes hit residential areas of central Beirut on Thursday evening.Two other strikes have hit central Beirut in the past few weeks.
Wafiq Safa is a close ally of the armed group’s assassinated leader Hassan Nasrallah
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