Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said his country does not fear President Donald Trump’s threats and “absurd rhetoric.”

Israel warned today that it will keep striking Lebanon until militant group Hezbollah has been disarmed, hours after it hit south Beirut in what Lebanese

BEIRUT — Israeli airstrikes pummeled the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital late on Thursday, sending thousands of people fleeing on the eve of a Muslim feasting day and prompting accusations by top Lebanese officials that Israel was violating a ceasefire deal.

Israel has hit Beirut’s southern suburbs with a wave of air strikes in one of the largest attacks on the Lebanese capital since a November ceasefire ended its war with militant group Hizbollah.

Airstrikes continued for a sixth day Wednesday amid the most intense faceoff in the history of the Israel-Iran conflict. The confrontation that began Friday, when Israel launched an air campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear program and its military leaders,