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Israeli assault hit health centre in southern Lebanon; Hezbollah attacks have killed one man in Israeli border town. Hezbollah has said it launched dozens of rockets at Kiryat Shmona, an Israeli border town, in response to Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s southern village of al-Habbariyeh that killed seven people. The Israeli …

The Socceroos delivered a dominant 5-1 victory over Lebanon at Canberra’s GIO Stadium on Tuesday night to move another step closer to qualifying for their sixth FIFA World Cup campaign. In a sign of good things to come for the national team, midfielders Patrick Yazbek and Josh Nisbet made their …

The Socceroos have recorded a pivotal victory over Lebanon in their World Cup qualifier at Commbank Stadium in Parramatta. The Australians stamped their authority just five minutes into the match, with midfielder Keanu Baccus scoring the first of the night. It was also Baccus’ first major for his country. READ …

Hezbollah said on Monday that one of its commanders had been killed in a strike in southern Lebanon, adding to concerns that Israel’s fight against Hamas in Gaza could erupt into a wider regional war. The killing of the commander, identified by Hezbollah as Wissam Hassan al-Tawil, came as Israel’s …

An Israeli military reservist who was raised in Maryland was killed on Friday when anti-tank missile fire struck his unit near Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, the Israeli military said. Omer Balva, 22, was among the 360,000 reservists that the Israeli government has mobilized in an immense increase in its …

Lebanon has warned Israel of ‘uncontrollable escalation’ as protests broke out across several Muslim countries after Hezbollah called for a ‘day of rage’ after a hospital was bombed in Gaza on Tuesday night, October 17.      The Gaza hospital strike which killed at least 500 people, trigged protest as …

Prime Minister Mikati told Palestinian President Abbas the clashes were a ‘flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty’. Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has threatened to send in the Lebanese army to the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, where fighting in recent days has killed more than a dozen people, wounded …

The head of the powerful armed group Hezbollah has called for a halt to days of deadly clashes that have raged between rival factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in southern Lebanon. At least 11 people have been killed in the camp since fighting broke out on …

Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut says cargo vessel carrying stolen barley docked in the port of Tripoli on Thursday. A Syrian cargo ship, sanctioned by the United States and carrying what Ukraine says is stolen barley from the country, has docked in Lebanon, the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in the Middle East …

Pope Francis has postponed a trip to Lebanon initially planned for June over health concerns, Lebanon’s tourism minister Walid Nassar said on Monday May 9.   Nassar did not provide more details about the ‘health reasons’ which forced the postponement but the pope, who has suffered from pain in his knee, was …