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    'Hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later': Trump urges Israel to strike Iran

    Trump's comments came in response to US President Joe Biden's earlier statements cautioning Israel against striking Iranian nuclear facilities.

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    After latest humiliation, Iran had little choice but to strike

    The supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seeking to avenge Israel’s successive assassinations of Iranian proxy leaders.

    The stakes were enormous when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, held a meeting of senior figures to discuss the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah

    ISRAEL UNDER ATTACK: Iran launches missiles, terrorists slaughter 7

    Iran has launched a barrage of 200 missiles at Israel, with sirens blaring across the country as citizens hid in bomb shelters. It came shortly after terrorists opened fire in a deadly mass shooting outside an Israeli train station.

    Shortly before the missile attack, terrorists opened fire near a train station in Jaffa. Picture: X

    ‘I don’t know where to go’: Lebanon residents try to flee — again

    Tens of thousands of people in Beirut are frantically packing their bags as Israeli bombs rain down, but many have nowhere to escape to

    A man carries two children after fleeing Lebanon. Many residents of the country have nowhere to go or cannot afford to leave NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP

    ‘CONSEQUENCES’: Iran ‘preparing imminent strike on Israel’

    Iran is “preparing an imminent strike on Israel”, according to a US official. They added that such an act would carry “severe consequences”.

    Hassan Nasarallah.

    Hashem Safieddine: potential next Hezbollah leader ‘even more hardline’

    The terrorist had issued a stark warning to Israel: ‘Prepare to cry and wail’

    Safieddine enjoys close and familial ties with the Iranian regime MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP

    Israeli commandos raid Lebanon — the latest sign Netanyahu is ignoring Biden's warnings

      • Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a series of devastating attacks on Hezbollah.
      • He has rejected or ignored a series of attempts by the US to head off a wider conflict.
      • Biden has been criticized for trying to stop a wider war while still sending arms to Israel.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched an unprecedented series of strikes against the allies and proxies of Iran. Richard Drew/AP Images

    Who was Hassan Nasrallah? The killer cleric who came to believe his own publicity

    Hezbollah chief expanded the militia’s influence while drawing ever closer to Iran, making it its most valuable client and ally

    Hassan Nasrallah had been credited with turning Hezbollah into the world’s most formidable non-state fighting force BILAL HUSSEIN/AP

    Hezbollah’s chilling warning on live TV

     

    The Hezbollah deputy says the group is not going anywhere and is ready for an Israeli ground offensive into Lebanon

    Israel’s lethal strike against the head of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was reportedly the culmination of a years-long intelligence operation.

    Israel-Lebanon live updates: special forces ‘have crossed border’

    Reports of elite troops operating in Hezbollah tunnels as IDF airstrikes hit Beirut and tanks mass on the frontier

    Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Khiam RABIH DAHER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

    Israel’s wild tactics to kill terror leader

    Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader with 80 tons of bunker-buster bombs after spies spent years penetrating his entire network and even tracking their wives’ phones.

    Israel said on September 29 that it was carrying out new air raids against "dozens" of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, after killing the Iran-backed group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Picture: AFP.

    Netanyahu: 'Nasrallah was the core, the central engine of Iran’s axis of evil'

    Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered a national address on the elimination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, emphasizing Israel’s resilience.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (photo credit: OHAD ZWIGENBERG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    How Israel ruthlessly executed kill list

    Israel has wiped out a number of top Hezbollah commanders as they look to continue destroying the para-militant group.

    TOPSHOT - A man points to a television set displaying an image of the late leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah. Picture: AFP.

    Analysis: Huge Beirut strike leaves West powerless as Israel chases victory

    Diplomats were hoping to calm matters - they will be looking at events with dismay.

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    Israel says Hezbollah chief ‘eliminated’

    Israel’s military has claimed to have killed the leader during an air strike in Leba

    A file photo of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah from 2004, as he addressed the crowd in Beirut's southern suburbs. Picture: AFP

    ‘No ceasefire’: Israel hits back at US

    Western allies have stepped in as chaos continues to rain down on civilians in the Middle East, with analysts fearing the worst is yet to come.

    Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign minister, hit back at the pleas on Thursday, declaring ‘there will be no ceasefire in the north’.

    SITUATION CRITICAL: Israel responds after Tel Aviv attack

    Hezbollah has launched a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv in what has been called an attempt to “escalate the situation”.

    Rescuers rush to the scene of an Israeli strike. Picture: Kawnat Haju/AFP
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