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Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 - Global Israel Could Have What It Most Wants in Lebanon It just has to give up territorial ambitions and work with the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah. Fabio Bucciarelli / Middle East Images / AFP / Getty April 23, 2026, 1:56 PM ET Save Parallel to the shaky truce between the United States and Iran, a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah has temporarily stopped the fighting in Lebanon, but without ...

Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 - Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has accused Israel of crimes against humanity for killing journalist Amal Khalil and wounding her colleague Zeinab Faraj in an air strike in the village of al-Tayri in southern Lebanon. Khalil and Faraj were reporting on an earlier Israeli attack on a vehicle on Wednesday, when they were targeted while fleeing towards a building to take shelter. Paramedics rescued Faraj and ...

Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2026 - Iran on Wednesday captured two foreign container ships seeking to exit the Strait of Hormuz and fired at a third one, marking the latest escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran in the narrow shipping passage, and coming amid a United States naval blockade of Iranian ports which commenced on April 13. On Monday this week, the US military fired on and then captured the Iranian-flagged container ship ...