Wars in the World

Iran fired waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday in what it called a revenge attack for Israel’s killing of several Hezbollah leaders including its top leader Hassan Nasrallah.

There were no immediate reports of injuries from the barrage, which targeted Tel Aviv and other central parts of Israel. Iran fired about 180 missiles, Israel’s military said. The attack comes as the Middle East appears to be teetering on the brink of a multi-state war and followed an Israeli ground operation into Lebanon, where Iran-backed Hezbollah is based.

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Following intensive bombing raids over Beirut, and artillery fire, the Israeli army has launched a ground invasion into Lebanon on the northern border.

The widely anticipated invasion follows weeks of bombings, and assassinations, culminating in the detonation of thousands of pagers and walkie talkies, and the dropping of eighty 2,000 pound bombs from a fleet of F-16 aircraft on residential buildings in Beirut on Friday, which reportedly killed hundreds of people including a raft of Hezbollah commanders, chief among them, the militant group’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.

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Israel’s military says it has launched a series of air raids on Houthi targets in Yemen, further heightening fears of a wider regional conflict in the wake of intensified Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.

In a statement on Sunday, the military said dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets, attacked power plants and sea port facilities at the Ras Isa and Hodeidah ports. The attack killed at least four people – one port worker and three electric engineers – the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reported.

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Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been killed, the Iran-backed group said on Saturday, confirming his death after the Israeli military said it had eliminated him in an airstrike in Beirut the day before.

His death marks a devastating blow to Hezbollah, as it reels from an intense campaign of Israeli attacks. It is also a huge blow to Iran, removing an influential ally who helped build Hezbollah into the linchpin of Tehran’s constellation of allied groups in the Arab world.

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An Israeli airstrike on a Beirut apartment block killed a senior Hezbollah leader and about a dozen other members of the militant group, Israel’s military said Saturday as Lebanon raised the attack’s death toll to 37, including women and children.

The airstrike during the Friday afternoon rush leveled the eight-story building in a densely populated neighborhood in southern Beirut as Hezbollah members were meeting in the basement, according to Israel.

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