Middle East latest: Israel declares 'new phase' of war after second wave of blasts Image: An ambulance arrives at a hospital in Beirut after hand-held radios exploded across Lebanon on Wednesday.

Similarly, in the case of grain, importing countries do not store more than a quarter of their annual consumption because the silos must be emptied yearly for maintenance. Storing wheat for ...

Escalation in Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah revives memories of the displacement and occupation of the past.

But Israel has in recent weeks dramatically intensified its campaign against Hizbollah, mounting a relentless barrage of air strikes across the country and a ground offensive in southern Lebanon — an ...

Like other residents of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold, the family -- Zahraa, her husband and two sons, aged 17 and 10 - quickly packed what they could and fled for other parts of the capital Beirut ...

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According to a report on the Lebanese MTV network, sources in the Ministry of Public Works and Transport announced that "the IDF breached the frequency of the control tower at Beirut Airport and ...

BEIRUT, Sept 28 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike hit an industrial area 500 metres from Beirut airport buildings, a security source told Reuters, saying it was the closest strike yet to the airport ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Embassy in Lebanon has advised Filipinos to avoid areas near Beirut after Israeli jets struck dozens of Hezbollah targets. The embassy issued an advisory on ...

The leader of the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his underground headquarters in Beirut on Friday, Israel and Hezbollah confirmed.

The communications department of the American University of Beirut has been hurriedly converted into a shelter and by mid-morning was already full of more than a thousand people. Groups of women ...

Today’s strike in in Beirut was aimed at Nasrallah, but Israel doesn’t know yet if he was killed, the official said. So after recent strikes, does Israel feel it has eliminated enough of ...