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The vote to delay parliamentary elections – which were scheduled for May – came a week after Lebanon was dragged into the regional war by Hezbollah's launch of rockets and drones into Israel, which has responded with heavy bombardment across ‌the ⁠country

Foreign cargo airlines have halted flights to Israel, leaving Challenge Airlines as the main operator and pushing air freight costs up by 10-15 percent

Israel has reported another death as a result of Iranian strikes, bringing the death toll since the start of the war to 11.

Through geolocating and verifying seven images, Human Rights Watch said Israel fired white phosphorus using artillery at residential areas in the southern Lebanese village of Yohmor. Advocates say it is illegal to use white phosphorus under international law when the substance is fired into populated areas

• Najafabad ‘double-tap’ airstrike kills 19 civilians seeking municipal services, emergency workers • Bombing of Qeshm Island desalination plant cuts off fresh water to 30 villages THE United States and Israel stand accused of committing “war crimes” in Iran, after a series of recent airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians and devastated non-military infrastructure, targeting a water desalination plant, and a park housing emergency responders, hospitals, and schools. The accusations followed a deadly strike on Sunday morning in Najafabad, where local officials reported 19 civilians were killed. Akbar Salehi, the security and law enforcement deputy of the Isfahan Governorate, said fighter jets he linked to the US and Israel struck a local office for traffic and driving services. He added that a second missile targeted the same location minutes later as residents and emergency personnel were attempting to rescue the wounded. The Iranian Red Crescent Society said it has formally requested the Internati...

In a war already redrawing the region’s red lines, with the death toll from the US-Israeli attacks on Iran reportedly having surpassed 1,000, Tehran has brought one of the Middle East’s most sensitive strategic sites into the escalation equation: Israel’s Dimona nuclear site. A senior Iranian military official told the Iranian website Iran Nuances, later reported by Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency, that if the US and Israel pursue a “regime change” scenario in practice, Tehran’s “final effective missiles will target the Dimona nuclear reactor and all regional energy infrastructure,” adding: “This is a scenario we have already prepared for.” Iran has retaliated with waves of drone and missile strikes targeting Israel as well as Gulf countries hosting US military assets, raising fears of a wider regional war. The warning has reignited questions that often remain muted in regional crises: what is Dimona, why is it seen as the backbone of Israel’s nuclear capability, and how does its secrecy shape the polit...

• Stages rare helicopter raid deep into Bekaa Valley, killing 41 • UN, Ghana condemn ‘war crime’ attack that wounded three peacekeepers BEIRUT: Israel warned Lebanon it would pay a “very heavy price” if it fai­l­­ed to control the Hezbollah group on Saturday, as Israeli forces pounded the Beirut with airstrikes and mounted a deadly airborne raid in the country’s east. The warning came as the cross-border conflict, which dragged Lebanon into a wider Middle East war on Monday following Hezbollah’s retaliation after Israel killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayat­ollah Ali Khamenei, escalated sharply. On Saturday morning, more buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut lay as mounds of smoking rubble and twisted metal, Reuters video showed, after heavy Israeli bombardment that followed an evacuation order for civilians. ‘A night of hell’ Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, addressing Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun in a statement, said that if the Lebanese government failed to enforce a 2024 agreement to disarm Hezb...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar allegedly asked world leaders to shutter diplomatic presence in Tehran. Meanwhile, a diplomatic source says Israel struck against Iran following intelligence of unusually large sums recently transferred to Hamas and Hezbollah

This is the existential moment the Iranian regime has long feared. And although the U.S. and Israel began the war with Iran with congruent strategic objectives, subsequent conflicting statements by President Trump and his administration are mudding the picture

Netanyahu has waited nearly 40 years for this war, eroding bi-partisan support for Israel in favor of partnership with increasingly extreme elements of the GOP, risking the fundamntals of the U.S-Israel relationship

Fleeing north, ordinary Lebanese say Hezbollah's strike on Israel has dragged their country into a war not of their choosing

An Eritrean asylum seeker bound for Canada after 16 years in Israel says he will never tell his children about his ordeal, while an Israeli family finally takes the India trip it has been dreaming about for years

Israel’s Finance Ministry has put a weekly price tag on the country’s widening war with Iran, estimating that the economy could take a hit of more than 9 billion shekels (equivalent to $2.93 billion) a week if emergency limits on activity remain in place. The estimate links the economic toll to the Home Front Command’s […] The post Israel’s Iran war will soon cost the equivalent of 41,300 Bitcoin every week appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A militant kingdom that prospered in India 500 years ago resembles Israel to a good degree. Its swift destruction, in one fell swoop, should serve as a warning sign

Compania aeriană Wizz Air a anunțat joi că prelungește suspendarea zborurilor dinspre Israel, Dubai, Abu Dhabi şi Amman, până pe 15 martie, urmând ca zborurile din Regatul Unit către Jeddah şi Medina să fie reluate din 8 martie.

Continuă repatrierea românilor din Orientul Mijlociu: Două avioane sunt așteptate joi pe Otopeni cu turiști evacuați din Israel prin Peninsula Sinai.

Up until the last two years and the repeated blows dealt by Israel, Hezbollah was better equipped than most of the world's militaries. But now, despite having to move its primary arms smuggling route, experts believe the group still holds thousands of short- and medium-range missiles, and at least a few hundred advanced, long-range ones

As far as Cypriots are concerned, the alliance with Israel provides it with security against Turkish threats. But during this week's drone attacks, Israel did not provide assistance. A Cypriot source says that may be a good thing

Germany has cracked down on speech and demonstrations that assert support for Palestinians and accuse Israel of atrocities, even since Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in October 2025.

The California governor's sharp criticism of Israel marks both a new level of discontent from the Democratic frontrunner for 2028 and offers a telling indication of where party voters may stand ahead of the presidential primary