Lebanon

The Los Angeles-based Consul General for Israel believes the negotiated cease fire between Hezbollah and Israel will isolate Hamas in Gaza, saying he hopes it will also result in the return of Israeli hostages. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024.

Israel approved a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah on Tuesday to end nearly 14 months of fighting. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024.

President Joe Biden spoke from the White House Rose Garden Tuesday afternoon after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a televised address where he discussed a plan for a ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

The anguish in Lebanese archaeologist Nader Siklaoui’s voice is clear as he films Israeli missiles slamming down near ancient Roman columns he has spent much of his life protecting.

Israel has carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The fighting comes as the region braces for Israel’s response to an Iranian ballistic missile attack.

The civil defense forces of one of the world’s most war-torn nations are shocked at the destruction underway in Lebanon.

In just over a week, intensified Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed seven high-ranking commanders and officials from the powerful Hezbollah militant group, including the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

The announcement of Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has triggered speculation over the future of the militant group and what it will mean for Lebanon as well as for the rest of the world. Amber Frias reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Sept. 28, 2024.

Hundreds of families displaced from Beirut’s southern suburbs after the area was pummeled overnight by the heaviest Israeli airstrikes in nearly a year of limited conflict are sleeping in public squares and beaches or in their cars in the city center.

The past week has seen a dizzying escalation in the nearly yearlong conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. First came exploding pagers and walkie-talkies that maimed Hezbollah fighters and civilians around Lebanon and were blamed on Israel. Hezbollah’s leader vowed to retaliate. On Friday, the militant group launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel. Early Sunday, Hezbollah fired more than...

A Lebanese ophthalmologist has been working around the clock trying to keep up with the flood of patients with eye injuries after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded en masse.

The increasing strikes and counterstrikes have raised fears of all-out war, even as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza and tries to negotiate the release of scores of hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Hezbollah has vowed to continue its strikes in solidarity with Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group.

A series of explosions that left 37 dead and thousands injured in Lebanon appear to be the culmination of a long operation by Israel to target as many Hezbollah members as possible. UCLA political scientist Benjamin Radd explains. As seen on air on the NBC4 News at 7 p.m. on Sept. 19, 2024.

In Beirut, some said they were not going to work, while some parents kept their schoolchildren at home, fearful that more devices might explode.

The stunning attacks against walkie-talkies and pagers have killed at least 32 people, left Hezbollah in disarray and taken the Middle East to the brink of all-out war.

Explosions went off one day after pager bombings were reported in the country.

More device explosions were reported across Lebanon on Wednesday, a day after pagers belonging to Hezbollah members detonated across the country, killing at least 14 people and injuring nearly 3,000, state media reported.

Gold Apollo said Hungary-based BAC was licensed to use its brand in certain regions, as the militant group Hezbollah said there would be a “severe reckoning” over the blasts.