Up to 180,000 Lebanese and Syrians have crossed into the neighbouring country, which is still at war, in the last week. With hardly any airlines flying and seats at a premium, hundreds of people with means and a Schengen visa are escaping by yacht to Cyprus
Militias allied to Hezbollah and Tehran are stepping up their attacks on Israeli and US targets in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen in an attempt to relieve some of the pressure on Lebanon
Washington will have about 43,000 troops in the area once the new personnel arrive, according to Pentagon officials
Warplanes reduced four buildings to rubble by dropping bombs of up to one ton on what Israel called the ‘main headquarters’ of the Lebanese party-militia
The Israeli prime minister rejected UN dialogue initiatives and lashed out at Iran for sponsoring terrorism in the region from Gaza to Lebanon
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
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
Residents are calling for an open war with the Lebanese militia to neutralize the threat of daily rocket strikes
A latent tension that has been simmering for decades has exploded and the escalation of violence has turned the region into a hotbed of geopolitical interest — but also, a much-needed source of learning
Negotiations resume in Doha on Thursday with the aim of defusing the promised responses from Tehran and Hezbollah to the assassinations of Hamas’ political leader and the Lebanese militia’s number two
The Palestinian fundamentalist movement and the Tehran regime accuse Israel, which has not made any official statement on the strike launched early Wednesday
The Israeli prime minister visited the site where a rocket attack — which Israel blames on Hezbollah — killed several children on Saturday amid insults and the anger of local residents
The young men of Rmeish recently expelled suspected Hezbollah militiamen who were preparing attacks against Israel, an incident that took on a national dimension
Missiles fired by the Lebanese fundamentalist militia reached Tiberias, 25 miles from the border, where 12,000 evacuees are being put up in hotels. The displaced see only one option: open war
The fundamentalist militia fired around 170 rockets at targets over the border in response to the Israeli army killing a high-ranking military commander
Anti-aircraft batteries and jets from the U.S., the U.K. and Jordan shot down 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles. Only a few of the over 120 ballistic missiles fired in the attack reached Israeli territory
Indications that a direct attack against Israel would trigger a resounding retaliation by Biden and Netanyahu are deterring Tehran from action, experts say
Iran has raised the tone of its threats after the attack on its Syrian consulate. Israel ‘will be punished,’ said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Moody’s has lowered the country’s credit rating for the first time in its history. Added to the enormous cost of mobilizing 300,000 reservists and accommodating 200,000 displaced people is the ‘significant’ risk of a large-scale conflict with Hezbollah
The president, who is trying to avoid escalation in a region where 30,000 U.S. troops are stationed, says he has already decided how to respond to the attack on a base in Jordan
The drone attack, which the Pentagon attributes to a militia financed by Iran, also wounded some 25 military personnel, the first casualties among U.S. forces since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza
