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Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, on Sunday.

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Israeli strike kills elite Hezbollah commander as fears of another regional war grow

9:20am January 08, 2024

by The Associated Press

Wissam al-Tawil is the most senior militant in the secretive armed group Hezbollah killed since Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. The killing in southern Lebanon is the latest Gaza-linked escalation.

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip take shelter at European Gaza Hospital in Rafah on Saturday.

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Hezbollah fires rockets at northern Israel in response to killing of a Hamas leader

9:07am January 06, 2024

by The Associated Press

The militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon's capital.

A picture taken from from the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Harfa, near the border with Israel, shows smoke billowing near an Israeli outpost from rockets fired by Hezbollah on Dec. 15.

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Why Hezbollah and Israel haven't plunged into all-out war

12:58pm December 19, 2023

by Jane Arraf

The Iran-backed Lebanese militia and Israeli forces have been fighting across their border since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, but analysts say they want to avoid a war.

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Widad Ghareeb visits a neighbor's house that was destroyed by an Israeli attack during fighting between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah forces that escalated when the latest Gaza war began. Ghareeb's home next door was also heavily damaged.

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Away from Gaza, homes in south Lebanon bear the scars of Israel's other front line

5:00am December 14, 2023

A farming village in southern Lebanon sits on the edge of a parallel conflict to the war in Gaza, with Hezbollah militants fighting with Israel. Some Lebanese hold out hope for a permanent truce.

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Amit Michelson, an Israeli military reservist, stands for a portrait at a military base near the border with Lebanon in northern Israel on Nov. 28.

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As fighting grinds on in Gaza, some Israelis in the north want a war with Hezbollah

3:06pm December 13, 2023

by Brian Mann

Hamas is viewed by many Israelis as an existential threat in the south. But in the north, especially in Upper Galilee, many Israelis say Lebanon's Hezbollah militants must also be destroyed.

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Palestinian Hamas militants are seen during an event in the Bani Suheila district of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on July 20, 2017.

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With the Israel-Hamas war, Sunni and Shia armed groups find uncommon unity

5:00am December 11, 2023

by Jane Arraf

The war draws together Iran-backed Shia and Sunni militants in what appears to be closer cooperation between groups that differ in ideology but are united by opposition to Israel and the U.S.

An internally displaced woman feeds her daughter at their room in a school reconverted as a temporary center for internally displaced people on Oct. 25, in Tyre, Lebanon. The International Organization for Migration reported 19,646 people had been displaced inside Lebanon since Oct. 8, the day after an assault on Israel by Hamas militants.

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Israel-Hezbollah fighting forces people in southern Lebanon to flee violence — again

11:29am November 16, 2023

by Jane Arraf

Thousands of villagers living along the border with Israel have been evacuated to Tyre, 50 miles south of Beirut. Their escape is a reminder of the cost of the war in Gaza, even far from its borders.

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The NICU at Galilee Medical Center was the first part of the hospital to move underground.

Hospitals in Israel move underground to keep working amid rockets from Lebanon

5:00am November 08, 2023

Across Israel, especially in the north, hospitals are setting up underground or fortified care facilities as fallout from war with Hamas intensifies fighting with militants in neighboring Lebanon.

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Iran's foreign minister: Armed groups are poised with 'their finger on the trigger'

7:57am October 27, 2023

Israel's intensifying military campaign in Gaza is raising the specter of a broader regional war involving Iran-allied groups. Iran's foreign minister says its allies are ready to strike.

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People carry Palestinian flags, Iranian flags and Hezbollah flags at Tehran's Revolution Square during an anti-Israel rally on Oct. 18.

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What is the 'axis of resistance' of Iran-backed groups in the Middle East?

4:37pm October 26, 2023

by Fatima Al-Kassab

There have been questions about how Iranian-backed forces in the "axis of resistance" may influence the Israel-Hamas war. The network of forces is "a kind of NATO for militant groups," an expert says.