(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli military says it has begun “targeted ground raids” on villages in southern Lebanon.
The incursions backed by air strikes and artillery began “a few hours ago”, targeting Hezbollah “in villages close to the border” with Israel, according to a statement released early on Tuesday by the military.
It added that the raids were “limited, localized and targeted” against Hezbollah.
The incursion came shortly after it was approved by Israeli political leaders...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel’s military says it has launched a series of air raids on Houthi targets in Yemen, heightening fears of a wider regional conflict in the wake of intensified Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.
In a statement on Sunday, the military said dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets, attacked power plants and sea port facilities at the Ras Isa and Hodeidah ports. The attack killed at least four people – one...
(BBC News) SpaceX has launched its mission to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) since June.
The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday.
The pair's mission at the space station had only been expected to last about eight days, but after a fault was found on the new Boeing Starliner, it returned to Earth empty as...
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Hezbollah has confirmed the killing of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive air attack on a densely populated neighbourhood of Beirut on Friday evening that reduced several residential buildings to rubble.
In a statement, the Lebanese group says it will continue to confront Israel in support of Gaza and in defence of Lebanon.
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(BBC News) Kamala Harris is visiting the US southern border for the first time since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
Although numbers of migrants crossing this border have dropped significantly in recent months, Donald Trump has been attacking her and President Joe Biden's record on illegal immigration.
Trump claims that "Kamala Harris has allowed 21 million illegals to pour in from all over the world."
The Democrats blame Trump, saying he worked to block the passing of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia has tailored its nuclear response doctrine to the specific threat of the long-range attacks it faces from Ukraine, even as Kyiv’s forces demonstrated during the past week the devastating effect such attacks can have on Moscow’s conventional war effort.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently “outlined the approaches” to a new edition of the Fundamentals of State Policy on nuclear weapons use, wrote his right-hand man, deputy head of the National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Sudan’s army has launched a major offensive in the capital, Khartoum, to regain ground held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), military sources have told Al Jazeera.
The army carried out air raids on Thursday against RSF positions in the capital and north of Khartoum in its biggest assault in months.
The army attacked several military sites belonging to the RSF, the sources said, and the Sudanese Air Force was carrying out several...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that he wants to open a “constructive” chapter in his country’s international relations and that Tehran is “ready to engage” with the West over its nuclear program.
In his first speech at the UN’s annual gathering of world leaders on Tuesday, Pezeshkian also strongly criticized Israel for what he called “its genocide in Gaza” and its “atrocities”, “crimes against humanity” and “desperate...
(BBC News) It's been another day of intense cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Here are the latest developments:
Preparing for possibility of boots on the ground: Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi has told troops that extensive air strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon are preparing the ground for them to “enter enemy territory”.
Cross-border fire continues: The Lebanese health ministry said Israeli strikes have killed at least 51 people and injured 220 today. Earlier, Israel said it had intercepted a...
(BBC News) At least 492 people have been killed in wide-ranging Israeli air strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the country’s health ministry says, in the deadliest day of conflict there in almost 20 years.
Thousands of families have fled their homes as the Israeli military said it hit 1,300 Hezbollah targets in an operation to destroy infrastructure that the armed group had built up since the 2006 war.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, launched more than 200 rockets into northern...
