It was not clear if an Israeli attack near Beirut had killed its target, the presumed successor to Hezbollah’s slain leader. In Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened further attacks against Israel.
The high toll and Israel’s use of a warplane were unusual for the Israeli military’s operations in the West Bank, which have escalated during the war in Gaza.
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The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency said the Israeli military operation had included an incursion by ground troops and airstrikes.
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On Rosh Hashana, many Israelis longed for a return to normalcy after a year of escalating wars for the country.
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Yazidi Woman Taken Captive by ISIS Has Been Rescued in Gaza, Israel Says
She was returned to her family in Iraq after a complex operation involving the United States, Jordan and others, the Israeli military said.
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Laborer From Gaza Is First Reported Fatality of Iran’s Missile Attack
Sameh al-Asali, who was sheltering in the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was killed when a large missile fragment slammed into him.
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At Least 7 Killed and Several Injured in Tel Aviv Shooting
The authorities described the shooting, which took place on a light rail train, as a terrorist attack by two Palestinian gunmen. No group immediately claimed responsibility.
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Saudi Arabia Pledges to Send Funding for Palestinians
An expected cash infusion for the Palestinian Authority would signal renewed Saudi backing for Palestinian statehood and help mend ties between Riyadh and the body that administers the West Bank.
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Netanyahu, Ignoring Allies and Defying Critics, Basks in a Rare Triumph
Israel’s strike on Hassan Nasrallah was the culmination of several startling moves that suggest the Israeli prime minister feels unconstrained by foreign criticism.
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Live Updates: Israeli Strikes Rock Lebanon as Iran’s Leader Issues Warning
It was not clear if an Israeli attack near Beirut had killed its target, the presumed successor to Hezbollah’s slain leader. In Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened further attacks against Israel.
In Rare Sermon, Iran’s Supreme Leader Issues Warning to Israel
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday Prayer for the first time in years, delivering a sermon during a memorial service in Tehran for Hezbollah’s leader.
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Oil Prices Jump After Biden Says ‘Discussing’ Israeli Strike on Iranian Facilities
The president was asked about a potential strike on the oil infrastructure of Iran, which accounts for about 2 percent of the world’s supply.
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Israel Bombs Beirut Site, Targeting Presumed Successor to Slain Hezbollah Leader
The airstrikes were aimed at a meeting of senior Hezbollah leaders in an underground bunker early Friday, and targeted a cousin of Hassan Nasrallah.
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Who Is Hashem Safieddine, the Latest Hezbollah Official Targeted by Israel?
A cousin and possible successor to Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader assassinated by Israel, Safieddine joined the group soon after it was formed and rose quickly up its ranks.
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Each side must predict how the other will react to avoid mutual destruction.
By Amanda Taub
Gov. Tim Walz addressed a virtual event hosted by a group focused on building Muslim American political power.
By Tim Balk and Katie Glueck
Some governments chartered planes and secured seats on commercial flights for their citizens, warning people to leave Lebanon while Beirut’s international airport remains open.
By Christina Kelso
War in the Middle East, a strike by port workers and a devastating hurricane injected uncertainty into the U.S. economy.
By Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson
A year after perhaps the worst military and intelligence debacle in the country’s history, its armed forces have regained the momentum. Some ask: to what end?
By Isabel Kershner
Scenes of striking workers, hurricane devastation in the Southeast and missiles over Israel represent a rare moment of turbulence for Kamala Harris.
By Shane Goldmacher and Reid J. Epstein
The cross-border fighting appeared to be the first direct ground confrontation between the two sides since Israel invaded Lebanon this week.
By Euan Ward, Liam Stack, Farnaz Fassihi, Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Michael Levenson
Airstrikes targeting members of Hezbollah have brought the Dahiya neighborhoods south of Beirut to a standstill, its residents fleeing and businesses shuttering.
By Christina Goldbaum and Hwaida Saad
Israel seems ready to respond in a much more forceful and public way with Iran after Tehran launched its second massive missile attack on Israel this year, analysts and officials say.
By Patrick Kingsley, Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman
Missiles over Tel Aviv fed Donald Trump’s narrative of a world in chaos and vaporized any hopes of an end to the war. In the near term, that poses political problems for Democrats.
By Jonathan Weisman
Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the U.N. secretary general had not condemned Iran’s missile attack on Israel in strong enough terms. For his part, Mr. Guterres said he condemned the attack.
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg
Sentiment about the Hezbollah leader shifted after the Israeli strike that killed him, partly reflecting anger toward Israel, according to an analysis.
By Julian E. Barnes
The Pentagon is preparing to send more troops and aircraft to the region. This is an overview of the U.S. military presence there.
By Mike Ives and Agnes Chang
The main questions now are how much the conflict will escalate and whether the United States will get more directly involved in the defense of Israel.
By David E. Sanger
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The 180 missiles fired at Israel on Tuesday evening sharply escalated the conflict between the two countries and threatened to engulf the Middle East in all-out war.
By Patrick Kingsley, Aaron Boxerman, Ronen Bergman, Eric Schmitt and Farnaz Fassihi
The president said the United States was “fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel,” in a show of solidarity between two allies whose relations have become strained.
By Michael D. Shear
The barrage of missile fire came after much debate among Iranian leaders, officials there say.
By Farnaz Fassihi
A look at the kind of weapons fired into Israel.
By Eve Sampson
The Lebanese militia is seeking more weapons from Iran, the officials said. It has yet to fire large barrages at Israel, and its top ranks have been crippled by Israeli strikes.
By Edward Wong, Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
A look back to an exchange of strikes in April suggests one possibility for what could unfold over the coming days.
By David E. Sanger and Eve Sampson
We explore why Tehran has responded so meekly to recent attacks on its top officials and close allies.
By David Leonhardt
Already crippled by years of economic decline, political paralysis and other crises, Lebanon has little but its own citizens’ grit to survive the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
By Vivian Yee
Israel’s military said its forces had begun crossing over the Lebanon border to target Hezbollah infrastructure in villages close to the Israel-Lebanon border.
By Patrick Kingsley
The military said it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in villages close to the Israel-Lebanon border.
By Patrick Kingsley, Julian E. Barnes, Ronen Bergman and Natan Odenheimer
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The alliance is under scrutiny after the recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
By Alissa J. Rubin, Ben Hubbard and Lazaro Gamio
After a weekend of intense talks, the American officials said they believed that Israel was planning only smaller, targeted incursions in southern Lebanon.
By Julian E. Barnes and Michael Crowley
Here’s a look at where the Israeli military has been striking in the Beirut area recently.
By Lauren Leatherby
Iran united militias to take on Israel, but as the Israelis pummel one, Hezbollah, the rest have so far largely failed to come to its aid.
By Ben Hubbard and Alissa J. Rubin
The son of a peace activist brutally killed on Oct. 7 is determined to make sure that her dream for Israel does not die with her.
By Emma Goldberg
When several journalists resigned this month from the British newspaper over false news articles, they also raised a broader question about its ownership.
By Mark Landler
If the explosion is confirmed to be an Israeli attack, it would be the first Israeli strike within the Lebanese capital since the 2006 war with Hezbollah.
By Mike Ives
The escalation of violence between Israel and Iran-backed proxies across the Middle East threatened to bring the combatants closer to an all-out regional war.
By Christopher Maag, Euan Ward and Adam Rasgon
The United States’ ability to influence events in the Mideast has waned, and other major nations have essentially been onlookers.
By Roger Cohen
“The Message” marks his re-entry as a public intellectual determined to wield his moral authority, especially regarding Israel and the occupied territories.
By Jennifer Szalai
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Leaders in Tehran suggested it would be the Lebanese militia that would strike back at Israel after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and bombings in Beirut.
By Farnaz Fassihi
His death is a blow to Hezbollah, the militia force and Iranian proxy he led. Whether it will cripple the group, or fuel another cycle of retribution, remains to be seen.
By Aaron Boxerman, Ronen Bergman, Patrick Kingsley and Steve Lohr
After the 2006 war with Hezbollah, Israel invested heavily to intercept the group’s communications and track its commanders in a shadowy war that ultimately led to the killing of the group’s leader.
By Adam Goldman, Ronen Bergman, Julian E. Barnes and Aaron Boxerman
A Times analysis of video from the Israeli military shows that at least eight planes it said were used in the attack on Hassan Nasrallah were armed with bunker-buster bombs.
By Aric Toler and Riley Mellen
Israel has recently killed several commanders of the Lebanese militia, including its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
By Aaron Boxerman and Lauren Leatherby
Protesters gathered on Saturday not only in Lebanon, but also in Iran, in the West Bank and elsewhere to mourn his assassination.
By The New York Times
Hassan Nasrallah’s killing raises questions about whether the group can strike back at Israel. But U.S. officials say it’s too soon to count the group out.
By Ben Hubbard and Helene Cooper
Israeli officials gave their American counterparts no advance warning of the strike that killed Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, according to U.S. officials. But Mr. Biden said the killing was “a measure of justice” for victims of Hezbollah terrorism.
By Peter Baker and Julian E. Barnes
In 32 years in charge of Hezbollah, Mr. Nasrallah built the Iranian-backed militia into an influential regional force and a potent adversary of Israel.
By Neil MacFarquhar and Ben Hubbard
Amid widespread condemnation of Israel’s massive strikes, Syrian communities persecuted by Hezbollah forces voiced cautious, and sometimes exuberant, celebration.
By Erika Solomon
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The strike came barely an hour after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered a fiery address to the U.N. General Assembly.
By Ronen Bergman, Julian E. Barnes, Liam Stack, Farnaz Fassihi and Michael Levenson
The Israeli prime minister castigated Israel’s critics and the United Nations itself during his visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly.
By Michael Crowley
Israel’s airstrikes south of Beirut flattened several buildings and targeted Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
By Farnaz Fassihi
In 32 years in charge of Hezbollah, Mr. Nasrallah, 64, has built the Iranian-backed militia into an influential force in Lebanon and a potent adversary of Israel.
By Neil MacFarquhar
After Israel detonated pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon, a fierce debate began about whether the attacks violated international law. A U.N. treaty from 1996 offers an answer.
By Amanda Taub
An attack on a secret weapons lab was one of the most daring Israeli operations against the Iranian proxy group in years, covert in name only.
By Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes and Ronen Bergman
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