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The Latest Breaking News from Beirut

Why Israel is pounding Lebanon with bombs in war with Hezbollah stretching back decades

Thousands of people have been displaced by the latest conflict

The Independent UK

Southern Lebanon residents rush to flee homes as Israel pounds Beirut with bombs

Traffic became gridlocked as families fled southern Lebanon after Israel's military issued a notice ordering all of Beirut's southern suburbs to evacuate.

The Independent UK

Watch: Israel shares video of precision strikes in Beirut; Hezbollah's military infrastructure hit

The Israeli Defense Forces conducted a significant overnight strike in Beirut, targeting Hezbollah's headquarters and military infrastructure within a densely populated area. This action, described as the twenty-sixth wave of strikes, followed Hezbollah's alleged violation of a truce and its involvement in opening a new front in the ongoing conflict.

The Times of India

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New Israeli airstrikes rock Beirut suburb as civilians flee feared escalation

Lebanon faces Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs after a rare evacuation order. Thousands flee Dahiyeh as traffic blocks roads across the capital.

Euronews

Intense Israeli strikes target Iran and Lebanon as US warns bombardment to 'surge dramatically'

Intense Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic’s fleet of warships

The Independent UK

Tehran warns Europe to stay out of conflict or face ‘retaliation’ – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Morning Mail: Israel orders more than 500,000 to evacuate Beirut, Trump fires Kristi Noem, two mammal species discovered

Conflict continues to spread beyond Iran with order to southern suburbs of Lebanese capital; Australian team finds possum and glider thought extinct

The Guardian - AU

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Israel launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order

Residents fled Lebanese capital in panic before assaults on claimed Hezbollah targets while Tehran continues to launch retaliatory attacks

The Guardian - UK

Panic in Beirut as Israel warns Lebanon's southern suburbs to evacuate

Israel orders residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate, and the move sets off panic and gridlock across the capital

The Independent UK

Aftermath following overnight Israeli strikes on south Beirut

Crews cleared rubble in Beirut’s southern suburbs after overnight Israeli strikes, Lebanese state media reported.

Euronews

Hezbollah − degraded, weakened but not yet disarmed − destabilizes Lebanon once again

The fragile peace in Lebanon was already showing serious strains in the first months of 2026 – and then came the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran.

The Conversation

New airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs after Israeli warning

Lebanon sees fresh Israeli airstrikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs, with buildings hit in Haret Hreik after evacuation warnings.

Euronews

Israel flagged Hezbollah threat before launching air attacks, leaked memo shows

US embassy cable said Israeli officials did not trust Lebanon or Syria to contain the group’s fighters

The Guardian - UK

Israeli military orders immediate evacuations in southern Lebanon as strikes on Beirut intensify

Israel has ordered residents of dozens of villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate as airstrikes around Beirut intensify and Hezbollah reports more attacks

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Israel strikes Tehran and Beirut as Iran vows ‘complete destruction’ in region

Rapidly escalating war enters fifth day and spreads as far as Indian Ocean with sinking of Iranian vessel off Sri Lanka

International Business Times UK

Viral Video of Filipina Live Streaming in 'Dubai Missile Attack' Debunked — Footage From 2020 Beirut Blast

Discover the facts behind a viral video wrongly linked to a Dubai missile strike. The footage comes from the 2020 Beirut explosion — here's how the claim misled millions.

Euronews

Lebanon counts dead and wounded as Israeli airstrikes batter Beirut

Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut and southern Lebanon on 3 March 2026 as the conflict with Hezbollah and Iran widened, leaving dozens dead, many injured, and shelters overwhelmed.

Euronews

Israeli strike hits Beirut hotel as Israel-Hezbollah clashes escalate

Israeli strikes hit a Beirut hotel and areas southeast of the city, killing several people as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire amid a widening regional conflict.

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The Times of India

Beirut hotel, residential building hit: Israeli strikes kill six in Lebanon as Middle East crisis enters Day 5

Israeli air strikes have targeted several areas in Lebanon, including towns south of Beirut and a residential building in Baalbek, resulting in civilian casualties. Hezbollah, in turn, launched missiles at Israel's Haifa naval base. The Israeli military issued evacuation warnings for residents in southern Lebanon

The Independent UK

From Karachi to Beirut, Khamenei’s death sends shockwaves across the Shiite world

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes has sparked anger across Shiite communities worldwide and is raising fears of wider unrest

The Independent UK

Iran war today: What happened in Middle East overnight as Israeli troops deployed to Lebanon

Israeli troops have been deployed to southern Lebanon to boost defences against the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah in a major escalation of the war in the Middle East. The Israeli military also says it is conducting "simultaneous targeted strikes against military targets in Tehran and Beirut"; plumes of smoke were…

The Guardian - UK

‘They don’t care about Lebanon’: anger with Hezbollah boils as war returns to weary Beirut

Tens of thousands of Lebanese flee homes in eerily familiar scenes as Israeli strikes leave 52 people dead

The Independent UK

Israeli retaliatory strikes rock Lebanon after Hezbollah attack

Israel has launched new air strikes on Lebanon’s capital of Beirut after Hezbollah fired rockets across the border in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The Independent UK

Families take shelter in schools as Lebanon’s government calls Hezbollah’s strike on Israel illegal

Lebanon is seeing civilians fleeing their homes in the south as Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs and Hezbollah stepped into the the U.S.-Israel war on Iran

Radio France Internationale

Lebanon rocked by Israeli strikes as Hezbollah joins Iran war

Lebanon has been pulled into the war with Iran after Hezbollah – weakened by months of confrontation and under pressure to disarm – fired long-range missiles and drones into northern Israel on Monday. Within hours, Israeli forces launched heavy air raids across the country, killing dozens and triggering a large-scale…

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