Several soldiers have been killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in south Lebanon, Beirut’s military said Saturday, days after the two countries announced a conditional truce following talks in the United States. FRANCE 24’s Antonia Kerrigan reports from Beirut. Keywords for this article Source link
Ukrainian long-range drones struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and set it ablaze, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, as the Russian city hosts an annual international economic forum that is a banner event for President Vladimir Putin. The drones flew more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) to hit the terminal, Zelensky said on social media. Clouds of black smoke rose over the city’s port after the attack. St. Petersburg is Russia’s second-largest city and is where Putin was born. Read moreLive: Russian warship at Baltic Fleet base struck overnight, Ukraine says Russian authorities said only that the Ukrainian drone strike targeted the city’s infrastructure, without providing further details. The airport of St. Petersburg briefly suspended flights overnight because of the attack. Authorities also cut off mobile internet services. A strike deep in Russian territory With the front line changing little as swarms of drones hinder battlefield movement, both sides have sought an edge by increasingly launching long-range strikes. The war that followed Russia’s invasion of its neighbour has now stretched into its fifth year, …
Israel carried out strikes across Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least nine people in the south according to authorities, with raids also targeting a highway not far from Beirut outside of Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds. The fresh attacks were some of the most intense since the start of a three-week-old ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah that has done little to halt daily exchanges of fire, mostly in southern Lebanon. Keywords for this article Source link
Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least six people, officials said Saturday, most of them in an attack on a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro. Keywords for this article Source link
Soha Bsat is still trying to make sense of what happened. When Israel bombarded the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Wednesday, Bsat – like many others – was traumatised by the sudden and intense onslaught of violence unleashed on the city where she lives. “We thought all of Beirut was going to collapse on our heads,” she said. Bsat, a 55-year-old lawyer, was at her office in the residential neighbourhood of Ramlet al-Bayda. She believed the area – which is close to the residence of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri – was safe. The first explosion rang out just 50 metres away from her office. It was followed by a second, a third and a fourth. “It was all around us. We could see black smoke everywhere through the windows. When we turned on the television, it was chaos.” Israel later said that it bombed Lebanon more than 100 times in less than 10 minutes. Several civilian areas in the heart of Beirut were targeted. The strikes occurred just 48 hours after Tehran and Washington called a ceasefire, when many in the country …
21/03/2026 – 15:26 ‘Nothing but impunity afforded to Israel’: Lebanese front overlooked as strikes intensify Lebanon is the second front of the war in the Middle East. While there has been excellent reporting by domestic and foreign press, FRANCE 24’s media show Scoop asks why there hasn’t been more international coverage. There has been “nothing but impunity afforded to Israel” since the Gaza war, said Rania Khalek, a Lebanese-American journalist with BreakThrough News, adding that she feels terrorized as Israel continues to strike Lebanon. 21/03/2026 – 15:06 Iran conflict escalates as strikes signal wider regional risks As the Iran conflict enters its fourth week, strikes on nuclear sites and a reported attack on a US-UK base signal further escalation. With no clear exit in sight, fears are mounting of wider instability and humanitarian fallout. “The attack on Diego Garcia is an escalation… it’s a joint US-UK base, not just US territory – that in and of itself is definitely an escalation,” said Ali Vaez, director of the Iran Project and senior adviser at the International Crisis …
19/03/2026 – 13:18 US objectives in Iran have not changed, Hegseth says US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that the United States’ objectives in the war against Iran have not changed since strikes started on February 28. Hegseth told reporters that the objectives remained to destroy Iran’s missile launchers, its defence industrial base and navy as well as never allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. 19/03/2026 – 13:09 US defence chief Hegseth denies that US is involved in ‘forever war’ in Iran Hegseth said that the US is not planning to embroil itself in a “forever war” in Iran as President Donald Trump “knows better”. He said that the US focused on its goals in Iran – including destroying Iran’s missile launchers, its defense industrial base and navy as well as never allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon – which are on target and on going to plan. The US defence chief added that countries around the world, including “ungrateful allies” in Europe, should thank Trump for intervening in Iran. 19/03/2026 – …
18/03/2026 – 13:14 Swedish citizen executed in Iran, Sweden’s foreign minister says 18/03/2026 – 13:05 UN maritime body kicks off emergency talks on Mideast shipping The head of the UN’s maritime body urged “practical measures” to protect trade ships threatened by the Middle East war, as he opened an emergency meeting amid fears for thousands of stranded ships and seafarers. The International Maritime Organisation – responsible for regulating international shipping safety – will discuss efforts to ease the shipping crisis during the two-day gathering at its London headquarters. The IMO’s 40-member council could vote Thursday on several proposed resolutions, including one to “establish a safe maritime corridor to allow the safe evacuation of seafarers and ships stranded in the Persian Gulf”. “Shipping has demonstrated time and again how resilient it is but geopolitics are testing the sector to the limit and every time that shipping is used as collateral damage in these conflicts, the whole world is negatively affected,” IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said. 18/03/2026 – 13:01 Oil industry facilities targeted in southern Iran, state …
12/03/2026 – 20:38 Iran threatens to ‘set region’s oil and gas on fire’ if energy infrastructure attacked 12/03/2026 – 20:24 Netanyahu says new Iran leader ‘can’t show his face in public’ 12/03/2026 – 20:24 Netanyahu says Iran no longer the same after US-Israeli assault Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran was no longer the same after nearly two weeks of joint US-Israeli attacks and had suffered blows to its elite forces, as he appeared in his first press conference since the start of the war. Netanyahu said he spoke with US President Donald Trump nearly every day and that the two men spoke “openly”. 12/03/2026 – 20:20 Netanyahu says Israel ‘crushing’ Iran and Hezbollah Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the joint US-Israeli campaign was “crushing” Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. “We are crushing Iran and Hezbollah,” Netanyahu said in a televised media briefing. 12/03/2026 – 20:20 US says 47,000 Americans returned from Middle East since Iran war Around 47,000 Americans have returned home from the Middle East since February 28, …
In southern Lebanon, the Christian village of Marjayoun is among several that have chosen to defy Israel’s evacuation orders. Israeli strikes hit this border region hard on Friday. Here’s a look at those who remain in the village and the latest strikes in the area, by Caroline Baum. Keywords for this article Source link
