Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets in one barrage and other projectiles toward northern Israel after Israel widened its strikes on suspected Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, as the conflict threatened to slide into a broader regional war.
The Pentagon moved to reinforce U.S. forces in the Middle East on 2024-09-23 as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated and officials warned of a broader regional spillover.
A federal court in Argentina ordered the immediate arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, escalating a diplomatic fight already fueled by a cargo-plane dispute.
The Israeli military issued sweeping evacuation warnings as it intensified a campaign that Lebanon says killed 492 people and wounded 1,645 in a single day.
Israel widened its air campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, prompting mass flight from southern areas and marking the deadliest day of the conflict there since 2006.
The death toll from a wave of pager explosions in Lebanon rose to 42 on 2024-09-22, with more than 3,500 people injured, according to The Guardian’s report from the aftermath.
Philip Mehrtens says he is “very happy” to be heading home after being held hostage for more than 19 months by separatists in Indonesia’s West Papua region.
Hezbollah says Ahmed Wahbi, one of its senior commanders and a figure linked to the Redwan special forces, was killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut as fighting widened across Lebanon.
On the event date, reporting said the death toll from attacks in Bamako and near the capital’s airport had reached at least 77, with hospitals overwhelmed and the airport closed.
An Israeli strike in Beirut killed senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil and at least 13 other people, deepening the conflict along the Lebanon-Israel frontier.
U.S. officials said Israel alerted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that an operation in Lebanon was coming, but did not spell out the target or timing, as attacks on Hezbollah-linked sites intensified and Washington monitored the risk of a wider regional conflict.
A long-awaited inquiry report says the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire was enabled by years of regulatory failure, dishonest marketing and widespread institutional neglect.