Lebanon

Israel launched an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday, marking the first attack on the Lebanese capital since a ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect last month, in a major escalation that threatens to unravel the fragile truce between the two sides.

Israel's military said Sunday that a widely circulated photograph showing one of its soldiers damaging a Christian symbol in southern Lebanon was authentic, a confirmation that landed with particular force with Christian communities.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, a potentially major diplomatic breakthrough in a war that has widened the fallout from the broader regional conflict with Iran and pushed the two longtime enemies into their most direct political engagement in decades.

President Donald Trump presented the new U.S.-Iran ceasefire as a breakthrough, a two-week pause that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calm oil markets, and pull the region back from a wider war. Within hours, that message was already colliding with reality as Israel intensified its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, exposing a critical weakness in the deal Trump had just celebrated.

Judges Omar Harfouch and Claude Makélélé have resigned from the 2025 edition of the Miss Universe beauty pageant.

Islamic political movements in Lebanon and Yemen "support Iran's right to defend itself" but will not initiate any strikes on Israel.

Ardem Patapoutian declined 20 years of research funding at any Chinese university despite the Trump administration freezing his federal grant.

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) met with Benjamin Netanyahu, who presented him with a silver-plated pager to commemorate Israel's 2024 attacks on Hezbollah.

On October 8, 2023, a day after Hamas's unprecedented attack on southern Israel triggered war in Gaza, Lebanon's Hezbollah group declared its support for the Palestinian militants and began firing rockets into northern Israel.

On Tuesday, Lebanon said any Israeli presence on its soil constituted "occupation", warning it would refer to the UN Security Council to push Israel to withdraw and that its armed forces were ready to assume duties at the border.

A Lebanese lawmaker voted for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the country's presidential election, sparking confusion from fellow parliament members.

The incoming Trump administration team is taking credit for the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah brokered by President Joe Biden, stating that international powers are more willing to negotiate due to the election of President-elect Donald Trump.

Israeli media reported that Hezbollah forces are trying to enter areas the IDF has defined as no-go zones

Israel is pursuing its deadly retaliatory offensive in Gaza while also battling another militant group, Iran-backed Hezbollah, in Lebanon.

The United States and France have spearheaded efforts for a ceasefire in the war, which escalated after nearly a year of deadly exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israeli troops.

Israel escalated its bombardment of Hezbollah strongholds in late September, vowing to secure its northern border with Lebanon to allow Israelis displaced by cross-border fire to return home.

The pre-dawn raids came after Hezbollah claimed a slew of attacks on Israel, including a missile strike targeting a military base near Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport.

The now-banned conservative commentator who told a fellow CNN guest that he hopes his "beeper doesn't go off," took to "X" to defend his statement as "a joke."

According to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, more than 19,200 Lebanese have arrived in Iraq since the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon.

Nasrallah's influence extended far beyond his loyal Shiite Muslim support base in Lebanon.

At least 17 raids levelled six buildings, according to Lebanon's official National News Agency, with a huge ball of fire enveloped in a tower of smoke soaring into the night sky.

Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters earlier this month.

A drone fired at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Caesarea from Lebanon is confirmed to have hit the politician's residence, cracking a window, by both Israel and Hezbollah.

Syria, the Huthi rebels in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza all belong to the so-called axis of resistance led by Iran, which on October 1 conducted a missile strike on Israel.

Speaking ahead of a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israeli forces had asked UNIFIL several times to leave, saying that the peacekeepers' presence had "the effect of providing Hezbollah terrorists with human shields".

Israel appeared to target Hezbollah's security chief in air strikes on Beirut that killed 22 people, in the deadliest raid on the centre of Lebanon's capital since the Israel-Hezbollah war began.

Israel expanded its military operations in Lebanon last month after Hezbollah opened a front in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, following the deadliest attack in its history on October 7, 2023.

Israel has launched small ground raids across the Lebanese border and could soon widen the operation

Since Hamas's deadly attack inside Israel nearly a year ago, UN-linked courts, councils, agencies and staff have unleashed a barrage of condemnation and criticism of Israel's devastating retaliatory operation in Gaza.

Videos shared to social media showed large clouds of smoke rising from the explosions at Hezbollah's Beirut headquarters.