Middle East

Israel carried out a “targeted strike” on the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday.  The airstrike, confirmed by the Israel Defense Forces, came shortly after the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched...

Walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon Wednesday, killing another 25 people and wounding at least 600 others just one day after pagers exploded across the region, killing a dozen and wounding more...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee—The detonation of several thousand Hezbollah devices displayed a stunning capability for intelligence-gathering, likely Israel’s — and underscored potential vulnerabilities in global supply chains, a former NSA chief said...

Lebanon’s Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday prohibited people from taking pagers and walkie-talkies on all flights from Beirut’s airport, after two sophisticated waves of attacks rocked the country this week...

LONDON — Benjamin Netanyahu accused Britain’s new government of undermining Israel by blocking arms exports to the country and dropping objections to an international arrest warrant against him. In an...

The Air Force’s special operators trimmed the number of light attack planes they’re asking for after Congress looked askance. But they still need them, the commander of Air Force Special...

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said its war in the region is entering a “new phase,” hours after a announcing Israeli troops would be moved to the north of the...

Israeli intelligence operatives appear to have pulled off a legendary and deadly supply chain hack, installing tiny quantities of explosives into at least 3,000 pagers specially ordered by Iran-backed Hezbollah...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that the attack on Hezbollah members in Lebanon using explosive pagers was deliberately intended to “provoke a major war in the Middle East.” The pagers...

A Taiwanese company said the exploding pagers that injured thousands of people across Lebanon on Tuesday were actually manufactured in Hungary. Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group and political party, claimed...