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.
Life sure is hard when you’re a contestant at the Miss Universe pageant. In addition to wowing the judges with your swimsuit, your evening gown and your talent, you also have to be constantly on the lookout for quick-footed, iPhone-toting Israeli beauty queens who are dead-set on squeezing themselves into a selfie with you. Or…
An Israeli helicopter has fired two missiles on the Syrian village of Quneitra in the Golan Heights, Lebanese media is reporting. The Israel Defense Forces did not confirm the strikes, saying it does not comment on foreign media reports. Syrian media also did not report the alleged air strikes. It is believed the rockets struck…
Naftali Bennett, leader of an ultra-nationalist Israeli party and a potential future defense minister, is in the spotlight over his indirect role in an army shelling attack that killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians nearly two decades ago. Bennett, whose Jewish Home party is in Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and is expected to perform well…
An attack by Hezbollah on Lebanon’s border with Israel which wounded two Israeli soldiers was a message that the group remained ready to confront its old foe despite its engagement in Syria’s civil war, the group’s deputy leader said. The soldiers were wounded by a bomb planted by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in the Shebaa hills,…
Israel Defense Forces troops fired on two suspects infiltrating into Israeli territory from Lebanon. The suspects escaped and returned to Lebanon, the IDF Spokesman said. Lebanese security sources told the Daily Star of Lebanon that Israeli soldiers fired on a Lebanese Army patrol in the Sheba Farms area near the border with Israel, wounding one…
At least one rocket fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel two nights after a similar attack. The rocket fired late Monday night is reported to have landed in an open area near the Upper Galilee city of Kiryat Shemona, though the military has not confirmed the exact location. No injuries or damage were reported. Israel…
Rockets fired from Syria and Lebanon struck northern Israel. At least five rockets fired from Syria landed in areas across the Golan Heights early Sunday morning, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed. No one was injured in the rocket attack from Syria, which occurred at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday amid a series of Code Red rocket…
Beirut’s only synagogue is set to reopen following a five-year renovation. The Magen Avraham synagogue, located in the former Jewish quarter of the city, was opened in 1926 but partially destroyed at the beginning of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war in 1975, according to the Times of Israel, via an Arabic report in London’s A-Sharq al-Awsat….
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