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Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz sent a message to Lebanese President Michel Aoun Saturday, threatening further military strikes across Lebanon if he does not “uphold [an] agreement” and ensure the militant group Hezbollah is disarmed. “The one who will pay the full price is the Lebanese government and Lebanon as a whole,” Kats said, noting...

Protests, deadly crackdowns and American pressure has brought the world’s attention to Iran in recent weeks. The government of Canada says it has uncovered an alleged money laundering scheme supporting one of Iran’s main proxies. And that alleged scheme is located just outside Toronto. Nathaniel Dove has that story.

As the United States and Israel’s military campaigns in Iran and Lebanon continue, Iran and Hezbollah’s retaliatory strikes are drawing more countries into the fray. Nivrita Ganguly rounds up recent developments, including the United Kingdom stepping up its military deployment to the region and Israel’s “urgent warning” to evacuate a southern suburb of Beirut.

Thousands of Lebanese civilians were displaced Tuesday after Israel ramped up their attacks against Hezbollah, as the conflict with Iran widens. At least 30,000 displaced people have sought protection in shelters across Lebanon.

About 100,000 people have fled to shelters in Lebanon and the number of displaced is expected to rapidly increase following “unprecedented” Israeli warnings ordering people out of large parts of the country, a senior U.N. official said on Friday. With war raging between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Israeli military on Thursday ordered residents out...

Buildings in Lebanon’s Bednayel were left damaged on Saturday after Israeli strikes on the Bekaa Valley killed at least 10 people and wounded 50 on Friday. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah sites in the Baalbek area

In the Middle East, Iran and US-backed Israel launching new attacks in their ongoing conflict. On Friday morning, Israel said it had begun a broad scale wave of strikes on Tehran, adding previous strikes have already destroyed most of Iran’s air defences and missile launchers. The conflict has also rekindled fighting between Hezbollah and Israel,...

Haytham Ali Tabtabai, a top military leader in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is dead, after a targeted Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Sunday.

A senior Hamas delegation was in Egypt Sunday to discuss the ceasefire agreement in Gaza as both Israel and Hamas continue to trade accusations of truce violations. Meanwhile, Israel claims it killed a senior Hezbollah leader in an airstrike on Beirut.

An Irish hip hop group has been banned from entering Canada over what the government says are public displays of support for terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and Hamas. ‘Kneecap’ had been scheduled to perform next month in Toronto and Vancouver.

A London court has thrown out the criminal case against a member of the Irish hip-hop trio, Kneecap. Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh had been facing a terror charge after being accused of supporting the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. That initial charge prompted the Canadian government to ban the hip-hop group from entering the country for...

The Canadian government has banned an Irish hip-hop group from entering the country. Kneecap was supposed to perform in Toronto and Vancouver next month, but on Friday morning the parliamentary secretary for combatting crime accused the band of amplifying political violence and supporting terrorist groups, including Hezbollah and Hamas. The band denies that and, as...

Prime Minister Mark Carney, in a press conference at the EU-Canada summit in Brussels, said Iran has “been a sponsor of terrorism— Hamas, Hezbollah and beyond.” He added that Iran’s actions violated international law and that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is listed as a terrorist organization in Canada.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his forces will not be withdrawing from southern Lebanon on Sunday, putting the ceasefire with Hezbollah on shaky ground. Israel says Lebanon has not replaced Israeli troops stationed in the country’s south. Redmond Shannon reports.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow with his family after rebels took the capital Damascus, according to Russian state media. Assad held onto power with the help of allies like Russia, Iran and its proxies, like Hezbollah. The question now is whether rebel forces, which started as an off-shoot of Al-Qaeda, will rule...

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is shifting the focus in the Middle East back to the war in the Gaza Strip, where any kind of pause in the fighting still seems a long way off. Mike Armstrong explains why some analysts believe the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire makes a deal between Israel and Hamas less likely; and why Gazans...

With Israel and Hezbollah’s ceasefire appearing to hold, roughly one million Lebanese civilians are now returning to what’s left of their homes near the Israel-Lebanon border. Redmond Shannon reports on the hope this truce could lead to progress in ending the war in Gaza.

As of early Wednesday morning, the U.S.- and France-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah is officially in place. Though world leaders, Israelis and Lebanese have been celebrating the step forward in ending conflict in the Middle East, the deal has further ignited calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, as Israel continues its...

U.S. President Joe Biden said from the White House on Tuesday that a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah will take effect at 4 a.m. local time on Wednesday, after both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the U.S. and France. In his remarks, Biden said the accord was designed to be a permanent cessation of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was ready to implement a ceasefire deal with Lebanon and would respond forcefully to any violation by Hezbollah, declaring Israel would retain “complete military freedom of action.” In a televised address, Netanyahu said he would put the ceasefire accord to his full cabinet later in the...