Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country which shares a southern border with Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country which shares a southern border with Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country which shares a southern border with Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country which shares a southern border with Israel.
A suburb of the French capital honored a man imprisoned for helping to murder diplomats from Israel and the United States. A majority of aldermen in the city council of Bagnolet east of the French capital voted on Wednesday to make the Lebanese citizen Georges Ibrahim Abdallah an honorary resident, calling him a “communist activist”…
The United States and its allies are clamping down on suspected Hezbollah activity in West Africa, which Washington says is a major source of cash for the Lebanese group as its patron Iran feels the pinch of sanctions. The push coincides with Hezbollah’s deepening role in Syria, where it has dispatched thousands of fighters to…
The Israel Defense Forces will remove soldiers from 22 towns located on the country’s northern and southern borders. The IDF’s Operations Branch made the decision to withdraw from the communities near the borders with Lebanon, the Sinai and the Gaza Strip, according to reports. It will go into effect in October. IDF officials told the…
JERUSALEM — A terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda that claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on northern Israel said it has resumed a jihad, or holy war, against the Jews. The Lebanon-based Azzam Abdullah Brigades said the rocket attack last week was carried out “as part of the resumption of the jihad against the Jews.”…
Israel’s Walla News site offers a fascinating and, I think, crucial insight (in Hebrew) into the turmoil in Egypt and Syria. It’s by Dror Ze’evi, a professor of Turkish and Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. He writes that the two conflicts, however similar or related they might appear on the surface,…
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah claimed responsibility on Wednesday for explosions which wounded four Israeli soldiers who infiltrated into southern Lebanon last week. Nasrallah told Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen television that Hezbollah fighters planted bombs in an area they knew in advance Israeli soldiers would pass through, and detonated one of them when a first group of…
JERUSALEM – An explosion at the border with Lebanon wounded four Israeli soldiers on Wednesday, and the Lebanese Army said the troops were inside Lebanese territory when the blast occurred. The incident, in an area known for having land mines, did not appear to herald any surge in tension along a frontier that has been…
Four Israeli soldiers were wounded on Wednesday in an explosion on the border with Lebanon, a military spokesman said. The troops were involved in “an activity near the border”, the spokesman said, without providing further details of the circumstances of the blast. They were taken to hospital. Israeli forces routinely patrol the frontier with Lebanon,…
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