BEIRUT—A small training aircraft with three people onboard crashed on Thursday in Lebanon’s mountainous Keserwan district, north of the capital Beirut, aviation sources said. Initial reports suggested the pilot and two passengers were killed, the sources said. The Cessna 172 plane belonged to flight training firm Open Sky Aviation and had taken off from Beirut…
Hamas Official Predicts Ceasefire After Israel Faces 2nd Attack From Lebanon
A senior Hamas official predicted a ceasefire within days even as fighting continues, with Hamas and other terrorist groups firing more rockets from Gaza at Israel, which faced a second attack from Lebanon on Wednesday. The Biden administration on the same day signaled to Israeli officials multiple times that it is pushing for deescalation on…
Israel Fires at South Lebanon in Response to Rocket Launches—Israeli Military
TEL AVIV—Israel fired artillery at targets in Lebanon on Wednesday after four rockets were launched towards Israel from Lebanese territory, the Israeli military said. Israel’s missile defenses intercepted one of the projectiles and “the rest most likely fell in open areas,” the military said. The rockets caused air raid sirens to blare in the northern…
Israeli Military Says It Downed Hezbollah Drone on Lebanon Border
JERUSALEM—Israeli forces brought down a drone belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah group that crossed into northern Israel from Lebanon on Tuesday, the Israeli military said. In a statement, the military said that earlier in the day troops had located another Hezbollah drone that also had been downed along the border with Lebanon several weeks ago….
Missile Fired at Israeli Drone Over South Lebanon
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM—Anti-aircraft missiles were fired at an Israeli drone flying over south Lebanon on Wednesday but did not hit the target, the Israeli military spokesman said. Two Lebanese security sources said Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed movement fired at the drone. One of the sources said the missile did not hit the aircraft, which then returned across the…
At Virus Tipping Point, Lebanon Imposes All-Day Curfew
BEIRUT—It was a choice between containing a spiraling virus outbreak and resuscitating a dying economy in a country that has been in steady financial and economic meltdown over the past year. Authorities in Lebanon chose the latter. Now, virus patients struggling to breathe wait outside hospitals—hoping for a bed or a even chair to open…
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