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Lebanon
Netanyahu orders escalation of Lebanon offensive to 'crush' Hezbollah
The Israeli army intensified strikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the mili...
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Middle East
Iran warns deal with US not yet close, despite some progress
Iran warned Monday that, while some progress had been made, it was not yet close to striking a deal with the United States to end the M...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Saudi Arabia and other Muslim-majority nations must normalize ties with Israel as part of efforts to reach a deal with Iran, adding fresh uncertainty into protracted peace negotiations.
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At a busy Beirut center, migrant volunteers stirred pots of okra soup and shaped balls of the African staple fufu, keeping food coming for those caught between the latest Israel-Hezbollah war.
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Israel's two far-right ministers on Monday called for an escalation of military operations in Lebanon, with one advocating strikes on Beirut in response to Hezbollah's drone attacks.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that a deal to end the war with Iran could materialize "today", adding that Israel had the right to defend itself against attack.
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Israel said on Monday a soldier was killed in southern Lebanon, taking to 23 the number of its troops killed in the war with Hezbollah.
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Israel's military warned residents of 10 villages, most of them in southern Lebanon, on Monday to evacuate their homes ahead of expected strikes against alleged Hezbollah targets.
"In light of Hezbollah's violation of the ceasefire agreement, the Israel Defense Forces (army) are compelled to operate against it with force," the military's Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, said in a social media post, listing the names of the villages.
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President Joseph Aoun on Monday said Israel's withdrawal from the country's south was a "non-negotiable" demand that authorities would pursue through negotiations, days ahead of a new round of talks in Washington.
In a statement commemorating Israel's previous withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000 after some two decades of occupation, Aoun said that "this year, the anniversary of the liberation comes as Lebanon is weighed down by a painful reality."
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Hezbollah in a statement Sunday of trying to plunge Lebanon "back into chaos."
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Lebanon's health ministry said two people including a paramedic from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee were killed Sunday in Israeli strikes on the south that also wounded six other rescuers.
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Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem expressed hope Sunday for an agreement between Iran and the United States and that Lebanon, where Israel and the Iran-backed group are at war, would be part of its terms.
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