Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah
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RCP's Phil Wegmann asked President Trump at a White House event Monday about Israel expanding operations against Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, including U.S. support for a ground invasion. "Hezbollah is a problem.
On Friday, two loud booms echoed in Beirut before Israeli leaflets started raining down on residents, spreading captions that evoke Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza and urge Lebanese residents to share information with Israeli intelligence.
Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah are intensifying amid the broader regional war, as Iran refuses to back down and tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalate. Hezbollah claims success in its latest operations,
For Lebanon's Catholic communities — many of them concentrated in towns near the Israeli border — the renewed violence has revived fears that echo earlier conflicts in the country's long history of war.
Kuwait’s interior ministry said Monday it had arrested members of a cell affiliated with the banned Lebanese militia Hezbollah who were allegedly planning sabotage in the Gulf state. The cell consists of 14 Kuwaiti citizens and two Lebanese nationals who were in possession of firearms,
Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon are driving thousands of families to flee again, and some longtime Hezbollah supporters are now openly blaming the group.
The assailant in Thursday’s attack on a Michigan synagogue had previously been flagged in US government databases for connections with suspected members of the militant group Hezbollah, although he was not believed to be a member himself,
The country is waiting to see if the government seizes on this moment to disarm the Iranian-backed armed group and how the militants will respond.
Ground operation targeting Hezbollah widens a regional war and threatens to strain Israel’s military resources.