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At least eight people have died after a missile struck a church in Lebanon. Local Christian sources told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the church had been sheltering people displaced by Israeli airstrikes at the time of the strike. The airstrikes caused the collapse of the church and two adjoining halls that were being used to house refugees. A priest's house and a three-story building housing parish offices were also destroyed in the attack, which is located in the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Tyre. Christians in Lebanon have been sheltering refugees since Israel began its offensive...

An even better question: Why are Hezbollah leaders still meeting in Beirut?The Israelis launched another massive attack on a building complex "on the outskirts of Beirut," the New York Times reports this morning. This apparently refers to Dahiyeh, the suburb controlled by Hamas Hezbollah [corrected], and where Israelis killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah a few days ago. Reportedly, Nasrallah's presumed successor had gathered with what's left of Hezbollah's command, and ... well ...Israel bombed a meeting of Hezbollah’s senior leadership around midnight on Thursday, a gathering that included Hashem Safieddine, the presumed successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s longtime...

Multiple Israeli news outlets are reporting that Israel was successful in taking out Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on Friday when they leveled Hezbollah's headquarters in Beirut, but at this time there has been no official confirmation.IDF spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari issued a statement on the attack:“Moments ago, the Israel Defense Forces carried out a precise strike on the Central Headquarters of the Hezbollah terror organization…taking the necessary action to protect our people so that Israeli families can live in their homes, safely and securely.”Listen to IDF… pic.twitter.com/I4hbN7KkO8— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 27, 2024An Israeli official confirmed to The Times...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved Friday’s airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, from his hotel room in New York City prior to his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. The Prime Minister’s Office released a photograph that it said showed Netanyahu approving the massive airstrike. The massive attack targeted Hezbollah’s underground headquarters in the Dahiyeh neighborhood of Beirut. It was not clear at the time of the photo’s release whether Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had survived the attack. Netanyahu apparently delivered his address knowing that the attack was under way. He cut short a press conference after...

Israel killed Hezbollah missile commander Ibraham al-Kubaisi in an airstrike on the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiya on Tuesday, in an attack that was apparently confirmed by Lebanese sources. Reuters reported: An Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday killed a Hezbollah commander who was a leading figure in its rocket division, two security sources in Lebanon said, as fears of a full-fledged war in the Middle East mounted. The sources identified the commander who was killed as Ibrahim Qubaisi. The attack, in which six people were killed, dealt another blow to the Iran-backed group which has...

Israel is investigating the possibility that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was eliminated in an IDF airstrike. According to Kan News military analyst Roy Sharon, there is no positive intelligence supporting this report and there is a disagreement between defense officials about whether he was just cut off from communications or was indeed...

Three Israeli hostages, whose bodies were found last year in underground tunnels in Gaza, were likely killed in a military airstrike aimed at a Hamas commander, an investigation into their deaths concluded. An investigation into the deaths of Nik Beizer, 19, Ron Sherman, 19, Elia Toledano, 28, found there was a "high probability" that the hostages were killed "as a result of a byproduct of an IDF airstrike" targeting Hamas Northern Brigade commander Ahmed Ghandour, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday. The three hostages were being held in a tunnel where Ghandour was operating when the military struck on...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 42 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over the rebels’ attacks on shipping. Three U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe a then-ongoing attack, described the strikes Thursday as hitting a wide range of underground facilities, missile launchers, command and control sites, a Houthi vessel and other facilities. They called it a response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on...

Israeli strikes hit the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killing 22 people, including 18 children. Health officials say Israel continues to carry out daily raids near Rafah. Israel vows to expand its ground offensive.

so let's talk about the winners and the 0:03 losers so far from what's going on in 0:05 the Middle East specifically the Iran 0:07 strike on Israel and the potential 0:09 retaliation of the Israelis in the next 0:11 couple of days it seems so to give you a 0:14 quick recap the Israelis took out a K 0:17 Force General in Syria the Iranians got 0:19 pissed off they struck Israel from 0:21 Iranian soil and now the Israelis are 0:24 basically trying to figure out what to 0:25 do after they've essentially shut down 0:28 from the...

Iranian authorities seized an alleged Israeli-linked cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday morning, in the latest escalation of tensions between the two countries, amid concerns of an Iranian attack in response to an airstrike on an Iranian embassy earlier this month.

Israel eliminates a top Iranian general, Iran and its proxies step up attacks and America makes it clear it is not with us. Brandon bows & scrapes to Mullahs, says in effect "father, I cannot tell a lie. George did it!"

The Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning in eastern Syria, targeting Iranian assets and operatives involved in a recent plot to smuggle advanced arms to West Bank terrorists, The Times of Israel has learned. More than 15 people were reportedly killed in the strikes in the Deir Ezzor and al-Bukamal areas, close to Syria’s border with Iraq. The strikes targeted assets belonging to Iran’s Unit 4000, the Special Operations Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Intelligence Organization, and the special operations unit of the IRGC’s Quds Force in Syria, known as Unit...

Russia on Friday staged its largest air strike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure of the war, opens new tab, hitting a vast dam, killing at least five people and leaving more than a million others without electricity, Kyiv said. Ukraine, which has long urged allies to supply more air defences, said its energy system had received emergency power supplies from neighbouring Poland, Romania and Slovakia, as seven of its regions faced blackouts. The attack by Russia, which vowed last week to punish Kyiv for conducting attacks and strikes during its presidential election, brought back memories of the first winter of the...

For the second time in less than a month, senior Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard officers have been killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria. Iran's unofficial Mehr news agency said, "The Revolutionary Guards' Syria intel chief, his deputy, and two other Guards members were martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel." Updated reports say that five IRGC officers, plus some of their Syrian counterparts, were killed in the attack. The icons are already circulating. The intelligence chief, Sadegh Omidzadeh, was a close associate of Brigadier General Sayyed Reza Mousavi, the IRGC commander in Syria, who, along with...

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari is giving a televised news conference, where he said the Israeli military “managed to eliminate the terrorist murderer Ibrahim Biari” on Tuesday. Biari was “the main leader of combat” since Israel forces entered northern Gaza, Hagari said. During his “elimination, many terrorists were killed,” he said. He said the targeting of the building where Biari was in also “led to the collapse of other things because there was a very extensive infrastructure there”. A witness to the Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza told CNN he saw an F-16...

At least 40 people were killed in an airstrike today (Sunday) on a market in southern Khartoum, Sudan, according to reports from local hospitals. This is the highest number of civilian deaths since the outbreak of the civil war in the country at the beginning of last April. According to estimates, in the last five months of the civil war, at least 7,500 people have been killed. Throughout the period, various countries around the world tried to bring about an arrangement between the rebels and the government without success. Last month, 34 people were killed in a similar shelling of...

April 2 (Reuters) - Israeli forces carried out air strikes on outposts in Syria's Homs province in a raid early on Sunday, Syria's defence ministry said, while Western intelligence sources said a series of air bases in central Syria where Iranian personnel are based were hit in the bombings. The Israeli military declined to comment on the reported strikes in Syria, the third since Thursday. An Israeli attack near Damascus on Friday killed two members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. Without referring to any specific places or strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday...

The Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes in the Syrian capital Damascus shortly after midnight on Friday, for the second night in a row, according to Syria’s state-run media outlet. The state news agency SANA reported that Syria’s air defenses intercepted the “hostile missiles” over the capital, though the “aggression” managed to cause some material damage. Damascus regularly claims to successfully intercept IDF strikes, but military analysts doubt these assertions. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the strike.

Vladimir Putin scrapped his Victory Day flypast at the last minute because 'he was afraid of an aerial strike', it has been claimed. The military parade was scheduled to include 77 planes in the display of military might over Moscow's Red Square yesterday. Among the planes were his 'Doomsday' Ilyushin Il-80 which allows the Kremlin leader to continue ruling Russia during a nuclear war. But Putin pulled the plug onthe flypast abruptly before the parade, blaming poor weather. Airshows were also aborted or curtailed in at least ten other cities. Yet the sun came out in Moscow during the parade,...