The militant group’s attacks, apparently at the behest of Iran, led to retaliation from Israel and were “practically a suicide mission” for Hezbollah, an analyst said.

The Israeli Defence Force targeted Beirut with retaliatory strikes early on Monday, March 2, after Hezbollah launched what it said was a rocket and drone attack against a military base near Haifa in

Palestinian Islamic Jihad announces that a senior commander in its armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades, was killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh district overnight. He is identified as Adham al-Othman, 41, and described as “commander of al-Quds Brigades in the Lebanese arena.”

Cars packed with mattresses, children and hastily gathered belongings streamed out of Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, as thousands of families fled overnight Israeli strikes. The rumble of

The IDF issues an evacuation warning for a building in Beirut, ahead of an airstrike against a Hezbollah site. “You are located near facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah, against which the IDF will operate forcefully in the near term,” says spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee, attaching a map showing the location of a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold ...

“When war crimes and other grave abuses take place with complete impunity, they are likely to happen again, with civilians paying the price,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Allied countries need to put pressure on Israel and Hezbollah to abide by the laws of war and minimize civilian harm.”

The United States’ Embassy in Beirut on Monday urged its citizens to leave the country immediately due to volatile security

The American University of Beirut has long been a haven for cats abandoned in times if war or crisis, but in recent years the feline population has grown dramatically.

The State Department has ordered some staff in the U.S. Embassy in Beirut to begin to leave Lebanon, multiple sources familiar with the matter said.

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The State Department is pulling out non-essential government personnel and their eligible family members from the U.S. embassy in Beirut, a senior State Department official said on Monday,

Tens of thousands of Lebanese flee homes in eerily familiar scenes as Israeli strikes leave 52 people dead