The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Monday night that peacekeepers continue to report âextensive destructionâ of civilian infrastructure across southern Lebanon, warning that entire neighborhoods have been wiped out and some destruction appears âsystematic rather than selective.â
UNIFIL spokesperson Kandice Ardiel told UN Radio that peacekeepers had documented widespread damage and destruction from Kafr Kila to Khiam and Naqoura.
(August 24, 2026)
In 2024, images and footage shared by Human Rights Watch showed the munitions hitting residential buildings in the southern Lebanese border villages of Kafr Kila, Mays al-Jabal, Boustane, Markaba, and Aita al-Chaab.
Inhalation of white phosphorus fumes can cause respiratory injuries and asphyxiation, and inflict second- and third-degree burns to the skin.
In 2023, HRW revealed that Israeli forces had used the weapon on the densely populated Gaza Strip and on two rural areas along the Israel-Lebanon border.
CNN producers in the Ukrainian capital heard several explosions and saw smoke over the city, as an air raid alert stretched on for hours. Massive fires lit up the night sky over the capital, video by Reuters news agency showed.
Ukraine has been relatively successful at intercepting the massive numbers of drones that Russia uses in its large-scale attacks. But in recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly exploited Kyivâs near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles, which are needed to defend against faster-moving ballistic missiles.
At least two people were killed on Wednesday when the town of Mayfadoun was rocked by an explosion amid ongoing Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon that have included airstrikes, artillery barrages and ground incursions.
Lebanonâs official National News Agency (NNA) attributed the explosion to a âsuspicious objectâ left behind from a previous Israeli attack.
NNA also reported that a fire had broken out in the nearby town of Mansouri after an Israeli drone dropped explosive ordnance in the area.
Israel bombed âan airbase in Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, carrying out what appeared to be its first strike on Syrian government assets since March and drawing condemnation âfrom Turkey and criticism from a U.S. envoy who called it an „unnecessary escalation“.
A man reacts amid the rubble of a destroyed home that was hit by an Israeli air strike in the village of Ansar, southern Lebanon, Saturday [Mohammed Zaatari/AP]
Since 3:30 a.m., southern Lebanon has woken up to one of the deadliest days since the large-scale fighting ended last June.
Inside a house in Ansar, two families who had been displaced from their areas during the previous war were seeking shelter in what they hoped would be a safer location.
The strike killed seven people, including children and two women, and wounded others, turning their displacement from war into death in a place of refuge.
The strike on Ansar was not the only attack.
NNA – Marjeyoun – Israeli enemy army carried out a large explosion in the town of Markaba, Marjeyoun district.
NNA correspondent reported that fires broke out in the town of Bani Hayyan, Marjayoun District, as a result of ongoing Israeli artillery shelling of the town.
(August 12, 2026)
NNA – The Lebanese Army Command â Directorate of Orientation issued the following statement: „Israeli occupation forces continue their attacks and violations of existing understandings and international law, the latest of which was the demolition of the Zawtar al-Sharqiyah municipality building in Nabatieh, as well as the public school, dispensary, daycare center and several homes in the town. This confirms the occupation‘s continued destructive approach aimed at inflicting the greatest possible damage on southern villages and towns and preventing the establishment of stability.“
According to the Times, it was registered to a private company whose address was a UPS store mailbox in Virginia, deepening the mystery over who was operating itâand for whom.
âIt would be one thing if the US didnât have an overt maritime strike campaign, but they do, and theyâre posting snuff films of boats going up in flames regularly,â Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who specializes in the laws of war, told the Times.
âAnd thatâs what makes this even more squirrelly,â added Finucane, now a senior adviser in the US Program at the International Crisis Group. âWho are these people that are operating, and under what authority? And they are using a UPS store as their company address? Come on.â
(August 12, 2026)
In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Pezeshkian said Iran had never sought regional unrest and denounced the United States and the Israeli regime for undermining regional peace and stability through aggression against Iran and attacks that led to the martyrdom of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and a large number of civilians, including defenseless Minab children in their classrooms, as well as destroying civilian infrastructure.
Pezeshkian expressed hope that Japanâs diplomatic efforts to establish peace and stability in the region would bear fruit and prevent crimes and warmongering by aggressive powers.
Strikes by Yemen‘s Houthis on Sunday killed at least 11 people, a medical source in the Yemeni port city of Mokha has told AFP, after an earlier drone salvo targeted a Saudi oil refinery on the Red Sea coast.
A years-long truce in Yemen‘s civil war between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed internationally recognised government appeared to collapse last month.
Wie Simplicius76 bereits am 7. Juli 2026 detailliert ausfĂŒhrte, produziert Lockheed Martin derzeit rund 650 PAC-3-Abfangraketen pro Jahr â fĂŒr die gesamte Welt. Das sind lĂ€cherliche 54 StĂŒck pro Monat. Die Ukraine allein brĂ€uchte ein Vielfaches davon, denn doktrinĂ€r werden pro anfliegender Rakete mindestens zwei, oft vier oder gar sechs Interceptoren abgefeuert.
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Die Lieferkette fĂŒr eine einzelne PAC-3 umfasst ĂŒber 400 Zulieferbetriebe. Die Endmontage allein dauert sechs Wochen. Die Gesamtvorlaufzeit liegt bei mehr als zwei Jahren. Das ist kein Produktionssystem â das ist ein bĂŒrokratisches Monster, das fĂŒr einen kurzen, intensiven Konflikt völlig ungeeignet ist.
VerschÀrfend kommt hinzu: Die USA haben im MÀrz 2026 ihren eigenen Krieg gegen den Iran begonnen und brauchen ihre Patriot-BestÀnde nun selbst.
(August 6, 2026)
Media reports have also said that the US has used up nearly all of its ATACMS missiles and Precision-Strike Missiles, which were both used extensively in strikes on Iran.
Trump also responded to a report from The Washington Post that said he lashed out at US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over the munitions shortages, which one source told the outlet was part of the reason why Trump held off on his threats to dramatically escalate the war.
Sources told the Post that on the sidelines of a recent cabinet meeting at Camp David, Trump vented his frustration at Hegseth over the munitions shortages. The report said that Hegseth then blamed his deputy, Stephen Feinberg, for both the shortages and for failing to ensure Trump was informed about the issue.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre has received a report of a vessel being struck about 18 nautical miles (33 km) off the coast of the Omani town of Khasab.
UKMTO cited a âverified sourceâ as saying an âunknown projectileâ hit the vessel, causing a fire.
Dubai: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday said Iran had targeted a tanker belonging to the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
The foreign ministry in a statement condemned „the hostile Iranian attack that targeted a tanker belonging to ADNOC with a missile while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz, without causing casualties“.
(August 3, 2026)
Iraq is facing a fresh wave of regional pressure after Saudi Arabia struck sites inside the country and several neighboring states, including Kuwait, Jordan and Syria, warned Baghdad that any attack launched from Iraqi soil against their territory would be met with direct military retaliation against armed factions inside the country.
Israel has since seized additional Palestinian territory and now controls more than 60 percent of the enclave, with Netanyahu even saying that the aim is to increase to around 70 percent.
The Palestinian health ministry said 19 people were killed and 35 were wounded by Israeli forces in Gaza over the past 24 hours.
NNA – Army Command â Orientation Directorate announced in a statement that five military personnel sustained minor injuries in the town of Kafra (Bint Jbeil district) due to an Israeli strike while an army vehicle was escorting local residents.https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2080728745401368913?s=46
Israeli forces have killed at least 11 more Palestinians in Gaza, including two children, bringing the death toll to 21 in the three days since US President Donald Trump announced a plan he described as a âmonumental stepâ towards peace and security in the shattered enclave.
US President Donald Trump has ordered a fresh attack on Iran that could begin as soon as this weekend and would last a few days, US officials told The Wall Street Journal on Friday.
The goal of the strike is getting Tehran to surrender, according to the officials.
The report came on the heels of a report in CBS News which stated that the United States and Israel are coordinating plans to carry out one of their most severe aerial bombardments to date, focusing on key Iranian energy infrastructure targets.,
Multiple sources who spoke to CBS News indicated the military campaign could commence over the weekend.
A cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah has barely held in recent weeks, just as Israel and Lebanon have worked to implement a separate, U.S.-brokered agreement to end months of fighting. That deal calls for Israel to gradually withdraw from territory in southern Lebanon.
Hamadi says the Basma family, who lived just across a lane from them in a neighborhood called the Nuns‘ Quarter, was killed in an airstrike in March â the parents along with all four of their children. The impact collapsed the house on top of them and two of the children â ages around 8 and 11 â are still under the rubble, she says.
„Now when I look at the neighborhood they are the only ones I can think about,“ she says.
She says in a quiet area full of older people, the family‘s four children brought life to the neighborhood. „They were the ones who made all the noise and activity,“ she says.
Hammadi says she used to drink coffee with the mother, who was in her late 30s. She would talk about waiting for her children to grow up.
„They were wonderful people,“ she says. „Now there‘s no one left from the family.“
At least six people have been killed and dozens injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza despite an ongoing âceasefireâ in the latest violation of the agreement that was meant to help end the genocide.
The drone attack in Egypt has raised fears of the conflict in the region widening to a new front. No party has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
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At least six Palestinians have been killed and 25 others wounded in Israeli air attacks across the Gaza Strip overnight, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
The latest casualties add to the mounting toll from Israelâs continuing bombardment of the besieged Palestinian territory.
Der Bundestag hat am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025, den Bundeswehreinsatz im Roten Meer um ein Jahr verlĂ€ngert. Dazu lag ein Antrag der Bundesregierung fĂŒr die fortgesetzte Beteiligung der Bundeswehr an der EU-gefĂŒhrten Operation Eunavfor Aspides zur Abwehr von Angriffen der Huthi-Milizen auf die Schifffahrt im Roten Meer vor (21/1372(Dokument, öffnet ein neues Fenster)). In namentlicher Abstimmung wurde der Antrag auf Empfehlung des AuswĂ€rtigen Ausschusses mit 435 Ja-Stimmen bei 69 Gegenstimmen und 77 Enthaltungen angenommen.
The Fars news agency is now reporting that three people have been killed in the US attack on the residential building in Qeshm.
Citing the Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Fars said the victims were a couple and their two-year-old child. Two other children, aged seven and nine, who were wounded remain at the hospital.
An Iranian attack targeted a building belonging to a Chinese company in northern Kuwait, killing one worker, the Kuwaiti army said Thursday.
Defense Ministry spokesman Saud Al-Atwan said the âIranian aggressionâ struck the building, causing extensive material damage
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âWeâre going to be hitting them very hard because itâs our turn to hit them. They know itâs coming,â Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
On Tuesday night, Iranâs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched multiple ballistic missiles towards US forces in the region, and Jordanâs military said it intercepted five missiles.
Tehran, IRNA â The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says that its Aerospace Force has targeted a US air base and the US militaryâs CENTCOM headquarters in Jordan with ballistic missiles.
In a statement issued early Wednesday, the IRGC Aerospace Force said the attack was carried out in response to aggressive actions by the US military against Iran.
The brave combatants of the IRGC Aerospace Force targeted the US air base and the CENTCOM headquarters of the US military in Jordan with several ballistic missiles, the statement said.
A senior official in Yemen‘s Houthi movement said on Wednesday that the group, and not Iraq‘s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), carried out earlier attacks on Saudi Arabia, accusing Riyadh of blaming Iraqi factions for operations they did not conduct.
Abdullah Al-Numi, a member of the political bureau of the Houthi movement (Ansarallah) told Shafaq News that the PMF had repeatedly denied attacking Saudi Arabia, while his movement had openly claimed responsibility for earlier operations against Saudi ports and facilities, including sites in Yanbu and Jizan.
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Ten Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) members were killed and six wounded in airstrikes on two facilities in Bartella, east of Mosul, part of the PMFâs preliminary nationwide toll of 20 dead and 32 injured.
The command stated that the strikes targeted the Fourth Regiment headquarters of the PMFâs 30th Brigade and its Anti-Armor Directorate.
(July 29, 2026 | 03:43 AM)
Saudi Arabia‘s armed forces, in coordination with the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), carried out precision strikes on Wednesday against Iran-backed militia targets in Iraq linked to recent drone attacks on the Kingdom‘s oil facilities, the Ministry of Defense announced.
Defense Ministry spokesperson Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Malki said the operation followed attempted drone attacks on oil facilities in the Eastern Province and Riyadh region on Monday and Tuesday, which Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed. He said those attacks originated from Iraqi territory and were carried out by Iran-backed terrorist militias.
The Iraqi Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi, directed, on Monday, the competent security authorities to investigate the statement issued by the Ministry of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia regarding the targeting of the Kingdom with drones launched from Iraqi territory.