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Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejected the diplomatic initiative on Thursday, now recognizes Washington’s ‘indispensable’ role in advancing regional stability

The Israeli prime minister insists on proceeding on a war footing despite a US and French proposal to agree on a 21-day truce

The military capabilities of the Lebanese fundamentalists are far inferior to Israel, but considerable nonetheless. It has missiles capable of hitting any point in Israeli territory if they get past its sophisticated anti-aircraft defenses

Up to 71% of the Israel Defense Forces participating in the Gaza conflict are reservists. Many of them have been transferred to the border with Lebanon after fighting in the Strip

The attacks of September 22-23 have already caused more fatalities in the country than all the other clashes this year

For decades, the small Mediterranean country has been a parallel stage in the struggle for control of historic Palestine

The IDF is replicating its Gaza strategy and forcing thousands of Lebanese families to flee amid intense bombardments against Hezbollah. Meanwhile, three ‘highly trained and motivated’ divisions transferred from the Strip await the order to invade

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the strikes hit a forested area in the central province of Byblos, about 81 miles north of the Israeli-Lebanese border

The professor, who specializes in criminal groups, says that the mass detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies creates ‘a psychosis of absolute insecurity’

The Israeli army is responding to the offensive by the Lebanese militia which fired dozens of rockets at the north of the country on Friday

The back-to-back detonations on Tuesday and Wednesday, attributed to Israel, have generated a mixture of vulnerability and indignation. A Beirut neighborhood that is a Hezbollah stronghold bore the brunt of it

Israel allegedly placed small explosives on 5,000 pagers that arrived in Lebanon in recent months, tampering with them along the supply line. The Taiwanese manufacturer, Gold Apollo, has declined any responsibility

The young men of Rmeish recently expelled suspected Hezbollah militiamen who were preparing attacks against Israel, an incident that took on a national dimension

Thirteen years of war has left 90% of Syria’s population below the poverty line. The U.N. World Food Program ended its main assistance program in January

The militia’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that if Hezbollah did not strike back against Israel for the killing of Saleh al-Arouri, all of Lebanon would be vulnerable

Washington sends Secretary of State Antony Blinken back to the Middle East to try to prevent an escalation of tensions

This will be the fourth time the Secretary of State visits the region since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October

The United States, France, and Egypt have expressed concern about a possible regional escalation after the assassination of Hamas’ number two in Beirut

The Hamas number two, killed in an explosion in Beirut Tuesday, had led talks with Fatah and actors linked to Iran, in addition to ordering attacks without consulting the militia’s leadership

The Islamist militia has accused Israel of the attack against Saleh al-Arouri, co-founder of the organization’s armed wing. If confirmed, it would mark a major escalation in the war on Gaza

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says that it is running out of fuel reserves for its humanitarian operations in the enclave, while Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has threatened to attack Beirut

Tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border have intensified after a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters were killed in an Israeli strike two days ago

Elements of previous conflicts are being repeated in the current war, such as the suffering of civilians and the indiscriminate bombing of non-military targets

If the chaos went unchecked, it could spread across a region that is vital for global oil supplies — with reverberations around the globe

Syria’s military accused insurgents ‘backed by known international forces’ of the attack, without naming any particular group, and said ‘it will respond with full force and decisiveness to these terrorist organizations, wherever they exist’

Over the past decade, Nancy and Maya Yamout have worked with more than 150 prisoners in a Beirut prison. Their experience sheds light on the causes that lead young people to enlist in extremist organizations

Migrants escaping the poverty of the Latin American country are now wondering whether to go back, as Venezuela’s economy slightly improves while Lebanon’s remains in a tailspin