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Watch: What does the crisis in West Asia mean for India? | Realpolitik | Video Credit: Thamodaran B, Shiv Raj Israel’s war in Gaza against Hamas has entered its second year and the country also launched its fourth invasion of Lebanon on October 1, targeting Hezbollah. Beyond these two ground battles, there is an unfolding…
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Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanon said an Israeli strike on Tyre on Monday killed seven people, with the Israeli army later issuing an evacuation call for swathes of the southern coastal city. An “Israeli enemy strike this morning on a building” in the centre of Tyre killed “seven people and wounded 17 others”, a health ministry statement…
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Israel dramatically escalated its air strikes on Lebanon late last month (File) Jerusalem: The Israeli military on Sunday said five soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, bringing to 37 the death count for soldiers fighting there since the start of ground operations on September 30. The soldiers “fell during combat in southern Lebanon,” the army…
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Lebanese state media said the Israeli army dynamited houses in Lebanese border villages on Saturday, as Israel said it used 400 tonnes of explosives to destroy a Hezbollah tunnel, more than a month into an all-out war. The official National News Agency said “the army of the Israeli enemy has since dawn blown up and…
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Armoured vehicles of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol the Marjayoun area in southern Lebanon on October 24, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. | Photo Credit: AFP United Nations peacekeepers said on Friday (October 25, 2024) that Israeli soldiers fired at one of their observation posts in south…
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New York: The war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah is expected to wipe 9% off Lebanon’s national wealth as measured by GDP, the United Nations said on Wednesday, with the scale of hostilities and the economic fallout set to surpass the last war in 2006. The UN Development Programme’s rapid appraisal of the conflict’s…
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Senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine attends a funeral in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, on September 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Hashem Safieddine, a strongman who rose through the ranks of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah over decades to become the second-most powerful person within the organisation, has died. Safieddine, who was about 60, was…
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Just a month ago, south Beirut’s bustling streets were packed with traffic, families strolling about and youths in cafes, but now silence dominates the abandoned Hezbollah bastion, interrupted only by the sound of Israeli bombs. Escalating Israeli attacks since late September, after nearly a year of low-intensity cross-border exchanges, have reduced much of the Lebanese…
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (October 19, 2024) accused Iran-backed Hezbollah of trying to assassinate him, with the Middle East already on edge after Israel had vowed retaliation for an Iranian missile barrage. Mr. Netanyahu’s office said a drone was launched toward his residence in the central town of Caesarea but he and…
Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Israeli military said a drone spotted crossing into the country from Lebanon on Saturday (October 19, 2024) struck the central town of Caesarea, while two others were intercepted. “The drone “hit a structure in the area of Caesarea” without causing any casualties,” the military said, without…
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