A Lebanese lawmaker voted for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the country's presidential election, sparking confusion from fellow parliament members.

The incoming Trump administration team is taking credit for the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah brokered by President Joe Biden, stating that international powers are more willing to negotiate due to the election of President-elect Donald Trump.

Israeli media reported that Hezbollah forces are trying to enter areas the IDF has defined as no-go zones

Israel is pursuing its deadly retaliatory offensive in Gaza while also battling another militant group, Iran-backed Hezbollah, in Lebanon.

The United States and France have spearheaded efforts for a ceasefire in the war, which escalated after nearly a year of deadly exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israeli troops.

Israel escalated its bombardment of Hezbollah strongholds in late September, vowing to secure its northern border with Lebanon to allow Israelis displaced by cross-border fire to return home.

The pre-dawn raids came after Hezbollah claimed a slew of attacks on Israel, including a missile strike targeting a military base near Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport.

The now-banned conservative commentator who told a fellow CNN guest that he hopes his "beeper doesn't go off," took to "X" to defend his statement as "a joke."

According to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, more than 19,200 Lebanese have arrived in Iraq since the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon.

Nasrallah's influence extended far beyond his loyal Shiite Muslim support base in Lebanon.

At least 17 raids levelled six buildings, according to Lebanon's official National News Agency, with a huge ball of fire enveloped in a tower of smoke soaring into the night sky.

Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters earlier this month.

A drone fired at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Caesarea from Lebanon is confirmed to have hit the politician's residence, cracking a window, by both Israel and Hezbollah.

Syria, the Huthi rebels in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza all belong to the so-called axis of resistance led by Iran, which on October 1 conducted a missile strike on Israel.

Speaking ahead of a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israeli forces had asked UNIFIL several times to leave, saying that the peacekeepers' presence had "the effect of providing Hezbollah terrorists with human shields".

Israel appeared to target Hezbollah's security chief in air strikes on Beirut that killed 22 people, in the deadliest raid on the centre of Lebanon's capital since the Israel-Hezbollah war began.

Israel expanded its military operations in Lebanon last month after Hezbollah opened a front in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, following the deadliest attack in its history on October 7, 2023.

Israel has launched small ground raids across the Lebanese border and could soon widen the operation

Since Hamas's deadly attack inside Israel nearly a year ago, UN-linked courts, councils, agencies and staff have unleashed a barrage of condemnation and criticism of Israel's devastating retaliatory operation in Gaza.

Videos shared to social media showed large clouds of smoke rising from the explosions at Hezbollah's Beirut headquarters.

After nearly a year of tit-for-tat cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, exchanges over the weekend reached their most intense since the outbreak of war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip last October 7.

Ibrahim Aqil, aka Tahsin, was wanted by the United States for his involvement in the kidnapping and slaying of Americans in Beirut.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah blamed Israel for the explosion of thousands of its operatives' pagers and radios in attacks that spanned two days this week. Israel has yet to comment on the attacks.

Israel has not commented on the unprecedented operation that saw Hezbollah operatives' walkie-talkies and pagers exploding in supermarkets, at funerals and on streets.

Ehud Yaari stated that Israel has an opportunity to devastate Hezbollah due to the organization's weakened state following a deadly pager attack on Tuesday

Funerals for the Hezbollah fighters killed in the first wave of pager explosions Tuesday had reportedly just gotten underway when the second wave went off.

Footage from Lebanese hospitals show the grisly chaos following simultaneous explosions of Hezbollah pagers across Beirut on Tuesday.

The announcement came with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken due back in the region this week to try to revive stalled ceasefire talks for the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

The strikes came more than 24 hours after Israel carried out similar raids deep inside east Lebanon and as tensions mounted in the wake of the Israeli killing of a top Hezbollah commander.

The strike, which was followed by another, hours later, which killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, triggered fears the war in Gaza could escalate into a region-wide conflict.