For years, Hezbollah leaders urged their rank-and-file to reduce reliance on smartphones, arguing that Israel was able to bug those devices to infiltrate their communication network. The alternative was to go back to the 1990s-era technology of pagers and walkie-talkies, seen as a safer option. Hezbollah believed that the limited capabilities of pagers allowed them […]
Signs of a third full-blown war between Israel and the U.S.-designated terrorist movement, Hezbollah, which runs a state-within-a-state in Lebanon, are rapidly solidifying. Israel has fought two previous wars against terrorist forces embedded in Lebanon, in 1982 and 2006, and a third war appears to be looming. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) re-deployed its elite and […]
Diplomats have been scrambled to ease tensions in the Middle East after electronic devices linked to Hezbollah members exploded in attacks blamed on Israel that killed dozens and propelled the region toward all-out conflict. The attacks on the Islamist group’s pagers and walkie-talkies killed 37 people and wounded about 3,000. They were believed to be […]
Walkie-talkies exploded in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in a second wave of attacks targeting devices a day after pagers used by Hezbollah blew up, state media and officials for the militant group said. At least 20 people were killed and more than 450 wounded in the second wave, the Health Ministry […]
A suspected Ukrainian drone attack at an ammunition depot in Russia’s Tver region has been described on social media as possibly the biggest event of the war started by Vladimir Putin. Unverified images on social media show a huge ball of flame following the strike on the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) arsenal in […]
Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near-simultaneously Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people, including an 8-year-old girl, and wounding several thousand, officials said. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated remote attack. An American official said Israel briefed […]
Germany on Monday began random checks at its borders with five Western European nations as it seeks to crack down on irregular migration, expanding a system of mobile border controls that are already in place at four other borders. The checks began at the borders with France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Denmark before dawn […]
The headline in this morning’s Kommersant newspaper captured the drama.“Vladimir Putin draws his red line.”Will the West cross it? And, if it does, how will Russia respond?Speaking in St Petersburg, President Putin sent a clear warning to the West: don’t allow Ukraine to use your long-range missiles to strike Russian territory.Moscow, he said, would view […]
Ukraine is reportedly closing in on receiving permission from the U.S. and the U.K. to strike territory deep inside Russia with supplied long-range weaponry. The reports come as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy are in Kyiv this week, which marks the first joint visit of its kind for more […]
Most people in the densely packed al-Mawasi camp for displaced Palestinians were asleep in the early hours of Tuesday morning when Israeli bombs struck. Homes, possessions, and entire families were blown away in the sprawling refugee settlement, which Israel’s military has designated a “humanitarian zone” along the Mediterranean coast of the Gaza Strip. “People flew,” […]
A US citizen was reportedly shot in the head and killed by Israeli forces in the illegally occupied West Bank on Friday. Palestinian media and activists on X identified the victim as Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American national who had reportedly traveled to the West Bank in solidarity with Palestinians who are being besieged by […]
A grinning Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he supported Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. His remark came just hours after the Biden administration accused Russia of a widespread, sophisticated election interference campaign. Two Russian women have been charged in an indictment unsealed in […]
