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Pagers and drones: How Hezbollah aims to counter Israel's high-tech surveillance
Coded messages. Landline phones. Pagers.
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Hamas military chief Deif has long been a target for Israel
Hamas' military leader Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds behind what Israel termed its 9/11 moment, is an elusive figure who has rarely spoken
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Israel says strike kills elite Hezbollah unit field commander
A field commander in Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces was killed in an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, the Israeli military and two security sources said on Thursday,
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Israel says Hezbollah rocket kills 12 at football ground, vows response
A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children on Saturday,
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Don't bomb Beirut: U.S. leads push to rein in Israel's response
The United States is leading a diplomatic dash to deter Israel from striking Lebanon's capital Beirut or major civil infrastructure in
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Israel claims to kill Hezbollah senior commander in Beirut strike
Israel's military claimed it killed Hezbollah's most senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut on Tuesday, in retaliation for a cross-border
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Iran, its proxies will meet to discuss retaliation against Israel, say sources
Top Iranian officials will meet the representatives of Iran's regional allies from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen on Thursday to discuss
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Israeli strike on Beirut shatters diplomatic understandings, sources say
Lebanon's Hezbollah did not clear its sensitive sites or evacuate top officials in Beirut's suburbs before this week's attack that
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Putin asks Iran to avoid civilian casualties in Israel response, sources say
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for a restrained response to Israel's suspected
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Only Gaza ceasefire can delay Iran's Israel response, say Iranian officials
Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the
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Lebanon ex-central bank chief Riad Salameh arrested over alleged financial crimes
Lebanon's former central bank governor, Riad Salameh, was arrested in Beirut on Tuesday over alleged financial crimes linked to a
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Lebanon's ex-central bank chief Salameh to remain detained amid probe
A judge ordered Lebanon's former central bank chief Riad Salameh to remain in detention amid a probe into alleged financial crimes committed during
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Hezbollah vows to punish Israel after pager blasts kill nine, injure thousands across Lebanon
Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding
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Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, sources say
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before
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Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, say sources
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small
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Pager attack threw Hezbollah into disarray
Lebanon's Hezbollah was bracing for the risk of Israeli military escalation when its old foe struck a blow it hadn't seen coming, plunging the Iran-
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Israel unleashes heavy strikes on Lebanon as US, UK urge restraint
Israeli warplanes carried out late on Thursday their most intense strikes on southern Lebanon in nearly a year of war, heightening the
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Top Hezbollah commander among 14 killed in Israeli strike on Beirut
Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to
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Hezbollah handed out pagers hours before blasts - even after checks
Lebanon's Hezbollah was still handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands of the devices blew up this week, two
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Hezbollah's tunnels and flexible command weather Israel's deadly blows
Hezbollah's flexible chain of command, together with its extensive tunnel network and a vast arsenal of missiles and weapons it has
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US leads new effort to end hostilities in Lebanon and Gaza, sources say
The United States is spearheading a new diplomatic effort to end hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon,
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Iran's Khamenei warned Nasrallah of Israeli plot to kill him, sources say
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Hezbollah leader Syyed Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an
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Lebanese factions revive bid to fill presidency as Israel attacks
Israel's offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon has prompted a renewed bid by some leading Lebanese politicians to fill a two-year-long presidential
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Israel bombs Lebanon, Gaza ahead of one-year anniversary of Oct. 7 attacks
Israel bombed targets in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on Sunday ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks that
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After heavy Israeli blows, Hezbollah forges new command for crucial ground war
Hezbollah is preparing for a long war of attrition in south Lebanon, after Israel wiped out its top leadership, with a new military
