Israel’s attacks in Lebanon will continue for the foreseeable future, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, despite confirmation the leader of the country’s main adversary there, Hezbollah, had been killed.
In response, the Islamic Emirate has “assured” that there are no terrorism threats from Afghan soil.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah has yet to issue any statement on the status of Nasrallah, who led the group for 32 years.
The United States, the European Union and Arab nations were among those who released a joint statement late calling for an immediate 21-day cease-fire across the Israel-Lebanon border between Israel and Hezbollah.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has that if any Western nation that is a nuclear power were to aid Ukraine in a conventional attack on Russia, it would be considered a “joint attack on the Russian Federation.”
The IDF said the air strikes on the Lebanese capital Beirut killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, who it said was the commander of Hezbollah’s missile and rocket force.
Israel’s military said it launched airstrikes against Hezbollah sites in Lebanon on Monday, which Lebanese authorities said had killed 492 people and sent tens of thousands fleeing for safety in the country’s deadliest day in decades.
MONITORING (SW) – Many people in Beirut, and across Lebanon, are inevitably wondering what will come next following a string of exploding device attacks.
MONITORING (SW) – At least 9 people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says.
MONITORING (SW) – Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make it the second largest in the world after China’s.
MORNING (SW) – At least 18 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on a number of military sites in central Syria, the Syrian health minister says.
KABUL (SW) -Amid Praise from Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for the Islamic Emirate’s counter-terrorism efforts, the United Nations has raised concerns over threats from ISIS
