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Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fell in the Israeli coastal city of Nahariya on Sunday, causing a fire but no injuries, Israel's military and local media reported.

Israeli airstrikes around the Syrian city of Aleppo killed several people early on Monday, Syrian state media reported. The state-run SANA news agency gave no specific toll. It said the strikes were around the southeastern edge of Aleppo.

militant Hezbollah group said it shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon and fired rockets at an Israeli military base on Saturday, hours after Israeli drone strikes killed at least one person and wounded several others.

militant group Hezbollah said it launched a series of attacks on Israeli military positions Saturday after state media reported Israel had stepped up its own strikes the night before.

Lebanon's caretaker economy minister says the country's rulers, fuel companies and private electricity providers have blocked an offer by gas-rich Qatar to build three renewable energy power plants to ease the crisis-hit nation’s decades-old electricit...

'All eyes on Rafah': Israel pounds southern Gaza city amid global outrage and ICJ ruling — All you need to knowIsrael has defended their operation by stating that their mission 'only' aims to destroy Hamas fighters. However, over thirty thousand Palestinians have lost their lives in the airstrikes, including thousands of children.Some of those Palestinians have managed to survive the months of airstrike and are making the eighth move, with what little is left of their belongings and life to survive.On Tuesday, the phrase, 'All eyes on Rafah', flooded social media as several people from across the world came out in support of Palestinians residing in the Rafah city located in war-torn Gaza.Rafah, a city near the Palestinian territory’s southern border with Egypt, has been under Israeli ground assault since early May.

International donors meeting in Brussels say they will commit 7.5 billion euros, about $8.1 billion, in both grants and loans to support Syrians battered by war, poverty, and hunger for the rest of this year and beyond

Syria's devastating civil war, now in its 14th year, remains largely frozen and so are efforts to find a viable political solution to end it

Eli Lilly will spend more than $5 billion to expand an Indiana manufacturing site and eventually make more doses of its hot-selling weight-loss and diabetes treatments, Zepbound and Mounjaro

US State Department issued a travel advisory asking its citizens not to travel to this Latin American country. It has issued a «Level 4: Do Not Travel» travel advisory, its most serious warning. The department has warned Americans not to travel to this oil-rich country due to high levels of crime and civil unrest under the socialist rule of President Nicolas Maduro, reports the 'New York Post'.

The federal government plans to restore the rights of “lost Canadians” by allowing Canadians born abroad to pass down citizenship, even if their children were also born outside the country.

The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis

Amal Clooney helped the International Criminal Court weigh evidence that led to the decision to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas leaders, the human rights lawyer said Monday. The high-profile British-Lebanese barrister posted a statement on the website of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which she founded with her husband, American actor George Clooney.

Israel's leaders over post-war Gaza's governance, with an unexpected Hamas fightback in parts of the Palestinian territory piling pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli army has been battling Hamas militants across Gaza for more than seven months while also exchanging near-daily fire with Iran-backed Hezbollah forces along the northern border with Lebanon. But after Hamas fighters regrouped in northern Gaza, where Israel previously said the group had been neutralised, broad splits emerged in the Israeli war cabinet in recent days.

More than 300 Syrians refugees are heading back home from northeastern Lebanon to an uncertain future in Syria as anti-refugee sentiment is surging in crisis-hit Lebanon

Argentina’s biggest trade unions have mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei

The European Union has announced an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06 billion — that will mostly go to strengthening border control to halt the flow of asylum seekers and migrants from the small, crisis-wracked country across the...

₹6,995 per barrel on the multi commodity exchange (MCX). Also Read: US Q1 GDP: At 1.6%, US economy grows at slowest pace in 2 years, misses estimates on sharp uptick in core inflation -Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said that any rulings by the International Criminal Court, which is investigating Hamas' attacks on Israel and the military assault, would not affect Israel's next actions, but would ‘’set a dangerous precedent.'' -Israel's military said that its air force struck in Lebanon's West Beqaa District and killed a militant who advanced attacks against Israel. Israel stepped up air strikes on Rafah after saying it would evacuate civilians from city in southern Gaza and launch an all-out assault despite allies' warnings that doing so could cause mass casualties.

Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border. «Many forces are deployed on the border and IDF (army) forces are carrying out offensive action currently throughout southern Lebanon,» Gallant said in a statement, also claiming that «half of Hezbollah's commanders in southern Lebanon have been eliminated» in months of violence. «The other half are in hiding and abandoning the field to IDF operations,» he added without giving a specific number.

Ret. Air Force Brig. Gen. Rob Spalding and Marine raider Garrett Exner discuss tensions in the Middle East on The Evening Edit.

Lebanon's Hezbollah group said it attacked an Israeli army base near the border on Wednesday, with the latest in a series of tit-for-tat strikes wounding 14 soldiers, according to Israel's military. Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Hamas ally, have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Palestinian militant group attacked southern Israel on October 7, triggering war in the Gaza Strip. But Wednesday's incident marked the third day in a row that Hezbollah strikes wounded people in Israel, with regional tensions high after Iran launched a direct attack on Israel over the weekend in retaliation for a deadly strike on Tehran's Damascus consulate.