Hezbollah
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Iran's 'Axis of Resistance': A growing threat to Middle East stability
World | Aug 01, 2024, 03:09 PM ISTIran's Axis of Resistance is a coalition with the potential to further destabilize the Middle East amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. Their coordinated actions against Israel and close ties to Iran could trigger wider conflicts, disrupt global trade, and worsen humanitarian crises.
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Hamas chief Haniyeh's killing in Iran fuels fears of wider Middle-East conflict | What's NEXT?
World | Jul 31, 2024, 09:16 PM ISTHamas and Iran don't want a regional war, but there is a crime that should be punished, Hamas deputy chief in Gaza Khalil Al-Hayya said in a press conference in Tehran after the killing of the Palestinian militant group's chief Ismail Haniyeh.
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Israel vs Lebanon: A timeline of the decades-long conflict between two countries | EXPLAINED
Explainers | Jul 31, 2024, 02:37 PM ISTIsrael's Tuesday strike on Beirut, Lebanon targeting a senior Hezbollah commander in retaliation for Saturday's Golan Heights attack shone the light on the decades-long conflict between the two nations. Israel blamed Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr for the Golan Heights attack that killed 12 children.
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Israel's two major enemies 'eliminated' within hours: How the attacks unfolded?
World | Jul 31, 2024, 02:05 PM ISTIsmail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas' political bureau, has long been a target for Israel's military and intelligence services. His assassination followed an Israeli strike in Beirut to kill Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in retaliation for a rocket attack in Golan Heights that killed 12 youths.
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Israel claims to kill senior Hezbollah commander in rare Beirut strike, 3 civilians also dead
World | Jul 31, 2024, 06:47 AM ISTIsrael carried out the strike in Beirut against Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander allegedly responsible for the Golan Heights attack on Saturday that killed 12. Israel blames the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, which has denied any role in the attack, amid boiling regional tensions.
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After Gaza, is Israel staring at war on northern border with Hezbollah? EXPLAINED
World | Jul 29, 2024, 07:36 AM IST12 children were killed in a rocket attack on a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Saturday. Israel blamed Hezbollah for the attack and PM Netanyahu gave a stern warning to Hezbollah while also cutting short his US visit.
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Golan Heights: 12 children killed in football stadium, are now wrapped in white clothes for funerals
World | Jul 28, 2024, 06:22 PM ISTOn Saturday just before sunset, a rocket slammed into a soccer pitch where dozens of children and teens were playing in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, which is located about 12 kilometres south of Lebanon and next to the Syrian border.
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'Hezbollah will pay heavy price, kind it has thus far not paid': Israel after football match attack
World | Jul 28, 2024, 01:30 PM ISTIsrael blamed Hezbollah for the strike in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but Hezbollah rushed to deny any role. Netanyahu warned that Hezbollah “will pay a heavy price for this attack, one that it has not paid so far."
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11 children killed in 'Hezbollah' attack in Israel, PM Netanyahu issues 'heavy price' warning
World | Jul 28, 2024, 08:57 AM ISTSince October last year, Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have killed more than 450 people, mostly Hezbollah members, but also around 90 civilians and non-combatants. On the Israeli side, 44 have been killed, at least 21 of them soldiers.
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Hezbollah's biggest airstrike on Israel, fires over 200 rockets in revenge for its senior commander
World | Jul 04, 2024, 04:06 PM ISTThe Israeli military reported that "multiple projectiles and suspicious aerial objects" had crossed into its territory from Lebanon, with many intercepted. No casualties were reported immediately.
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Israel kills another top Hezbollah commander as tensions between two sides continue to boil
World | Jul 03, 2024, 10:30 PM ISTNasser is the highest-ranking official from the Iran-backed group to be killed since Taleb Sami Abdullah, who died in an airstrike on June 11. In a speech commemorating Abdullah, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah emphasised his pivotal role on the front lines.
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When will the deadly Israel-Hamas war end? Netanyahu responds but with a stern warning for Hezbollah
World | Jun 24, 2024, 11:22 AM ISTIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the phase of intense fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip was coming to an end but that the war would not end until the Islamist group no longer controls the Palestinian enclave.
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Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah against Israel as another regional war looms
World | Jun 23, 2024, 06:24 PM ISTProspects of another simmering regional conflict grew as Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets toward Israel in retaliation for the death of a senior commander killed in an Israeli airstrike. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the group already has 100,000 fighters to fight a war.
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Four Israeli soldiers injured in blast inside Lebanese territory amid tensions with Iran
World | Apr 16, 2024, 08:22 AM ISTEarlier, in January also, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group launched at least 62 rockets towards northern Israel in what it called an "initial response" to the targeted killing of senior Hamas leader.
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Kerala man killed, two others injured in missile attack from Lebanon on Israel
World | Mar 05, 2024, 09:23 AM ISTHezbollah is believed to have carried out the attack that killed the Indian national Patnibin Maxwell from Kerala in northern Israel. Hezbollah has been launching rockets, missiles, and drones at northern Israel daily since October 8 in support of Hamas amid the war in Gaza.
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Hezbollah to halt attacks on Israel if Hamas agrees to ceasefire in Gaza: Sources
World | Feb 27, 2024, 11:45 PM ISTHezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israel across Lebanon's southern border after a war broke out between its Palestinian ally and Israel on October 7. The US says that Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during Ramadan if a hostage deal is reached.
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Hezbollah warns Israel will pay 'heavy price' after 10 civilians killed in south Lebanon
World | Feb 15, 2024, 09:14 PM ISTHezbollah warned Israel would "pay the price" for killing ten civilians,0 including five children, in Lebanon. The latest escalation has fuelled concerns of a wider confrontation between the Hezbollah and Israel amid the war in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians have been killed.
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US launches massive drone strike on Baghdad, kills top militia leader linked to attacks on US troops
World | Feb 08, 2024, 07:21 AM ISTThere were conflicting reports on the number of those killed, with US officials saying the initial assessment was one, and saying there were no civilians hurt or killed.
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US pledges further strikes on Iran-backed groups as Middle Eastern tension intensifies
World | Feb 05, 2024, 12:21 PM ISTWhite House national security adviser Sullivan declined to be drawn on whether the United States might attack sites inside Iran, something the US military has been very careful to avoid.
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US believes drone that killed 3 American soldiers in Jordan was Iranian-made
World | Feb 01, 2024, 11:15 PM ISTHowever, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, when asked about the matter at a news briefing following the media report, stopped short of confirming the drone's origin. "We're still doing the forensics," he said.