Hezbollah said a senior leader was among those killed, the day after confirming the death of a top commander wanted by the U.S. Lebanons Health Ministry said the death toll had risen to 31 and included women and children.

Hezbollah was reeling Saturday from an Israeli airstrike that killed two of its senior figures and dozens of other people, intensifying fears of all-out war in the Middle East in the wake of the deadly attacks on the groups communication devices.

As Vice President Kamala Harris struggles to balance her pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian camps, she faces a different uncommitted vote from another front halfway around the world, this time in the Caucasus. Armenia has been dealt a series of critical blows since 2020, when Azerbaijan launched a full-scale invasion of the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. […]

Israeli soldiers pushed four apparently lifeless bodies from rooftops during a raid inthe occupied West Bankon Thursday, according to an Associated Press journalist at the scene and videos obtained by AP.

The explosions that have been widely blamed on Israel killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 3,000, including many members of the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.

The attack, which Lebanese officials said killed at least 14 and injured more than 60, stoked fears Israel is driving toward a full-blown war on its northern border, even as the fight in Gaza goes on.