•Israeli emergency and security personnel deploy at the impact site of a reported rocket fired from Lebanon Lebanon said an Israeli air strike on the Syrian border today cut off the main international road linking the two countries. Coastal Lebanon shares a border with Israel, with which Hezbollah is at war, and Syria, where tens […]
The federal government has commenced arrangements to evacuate its citizens from Lebanon due to escalating tensions between Israel and Iran. In an announcement, Special Assistant to the President Bola Tinubu on Social Media, Dada Olusegun in a post on X, formerly Twitter yesterday advised Nigerians in Lebanon to contact the Nigerian mission for...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s army chief told soldiers today to prepare for a possible ground offensive to fight Hezbollah in Lebanon as the air force conducted hundreds of deadly strikes around the country. “We are attacking all day, both to prepare the ground for the possibility of your entry, but also to continue [&hel...
•Thick smoke rises above the southern suburbs of Beirut after Israel strike last weekend The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting today on the escalating violence in Lebanon, said Slovenia’s mission to the UN, which holds the rotating presidency of the council. “After consulting with the delegations, the presidency in...
At least 20 people were killed and 450 injured after hundreds of walkie-talkies, some used by the armed group Hezbollah, exploded across Lebanon yesterday. The devices, according to photos and video of the aftermath of the attack, appear to be IC-V82 transceivers made by Icom, an Osaka-based telecommunications manufacturer. But Icom says it ne...
Israel killed a top commander of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told our correspondent today, adding to fears the conflict in Gaza could spread. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander” for the first time, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on […]
Hamas deputy leader, Saleh al-Arouri, has been killed in an attack on Hamas office in Beirut. Hamas’ Al Aqsa Radio and Lebanon’s pro-Iranian Mayadeen TV confirmed word from security sources that Arouri, a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement’s politburo based abroad and a co-founder of Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades, was kill...

