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The world welcomes the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, but worries remain

3:44pm November 27, 2024

Celebratory gunfire rang out in Beirut to mark the start of a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah to end almost 14 months of fighting.

Hezbollah picks cleric Naim Kassem to lead the Lebanese militant group

10:54am October 29, 2024

The cleric takes over after Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb in late September.

Israel's military fights Hezbollah in Lebanon, as it vows to respond to Iran's missiles

9:57am October 02, 2024

The Middle East is bracing for a wider war as Israel fights in Gaza and Lebanon, and as Israel promises a strong response to Iran's missile strikes.

Israel launches a 'limited' ground offensive in southern Lebanon

1:06pm September 30, 2024

The Israeli military has launched what it called a "limited, localized" ground offensive in southern Lebanon against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Netanyahu defies calls for a cease-fire at the U.N., as Israel strikes Lebanon

4:19pm September 27, 2024

In a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli prime minister said his country would is "winning" and would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East.

LBN: patrolling the BLUE LINE with Italian troops

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U.N. peacekeepers take cover as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel trade attacks

6:02am July 15, 2024

by Jane Arraf

“The situation is really quite volatile,” Capt. Alessandro Crepy, with the Italian contingent of the peacekeeping group UNIFIL, says of the fighting between forces in Israel and Lebanon.

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Houthi fighters march during a rally of support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S. strikes on Yemen, outside Sanaa, on Jan. 22.

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China is mostly quiet on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea

10:44am February 23, 2024

by Jackie Northam

China's charting its own course, distancing itself from the U.S. in the Middle East, refusing to condemn the Houthis and looking to capitalize on ties with regional players to help solve the crisis.

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People, rescuers and security forces gather around a vehicle hit by a drone strike, reportedly killing three people, including two leaders of a pro-Iran group, in Baghdad on Wednesday.

U.S. drone strike kills a leader of an Iran-backed militia in Iraq

6:56pm February 07, 2024

by James Hider

A U.S. drone strike in the Iraqi capital has killed at least one leader of an Iran-backed militia, Kataib Hezbollah.

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A civil defense team carries out search-and-rescue operations in a damaged building following a missile strike launched by Iran on Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq's Kurdish region, on Tuesday.

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Iran's regional flashpoints are increasing. Here's what to know

9:18am January 19, 2024

by James Hider

Pakistan and Iran have traded cross-border rocket attacks, stoking fears of widening conflict even farther.