Pennsylvania man indicted for allegedly trying to join terrorist group, lying to FBI
A Pennsylvania man has been indicted after prosecutors said he tried to join a terrorist organization and lied about it to the FBI.
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A Pennsylvania man has been indicted after prosecutors said he tried to join a terrorist organization and lied about it to the FBI.
A ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah appeared to be holding several hours after it began.
The ceasefire would last for 60 days. An official response is expected in the next few days.
It would end fighting for at least a month, possibly two.
The hospitals where both volunteers worked for were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes and raids, they said.
MedGlobal, a Chicago area nonprofit, is increasing its presence in Lebanon to meet a growing need for medical care there, as hundreds have been killed in Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah. Dr. Thaer Ahmad is on the ground in Lebanon with a MedGlobal team providing care.
Displaced Palestinians ordered to evacuate their neighborhoods were fleeing the northern Gaza Strip amid Israeli military operations, as calls continue to grow for the fighting to stop in Gaza. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will push to resume ceasefire talks during his tour of the Middle East.
Israel says strikes are targeting a Lebanese financial institution that "directly funds Hezbollah's terror," as thousands of civilians flee their homes.
A fresh wave of Israeli airstrikes started pounding locations across Lebanon on Sunday night, some striking dangerously close to Lebanon's only international airport. Israel had said it would launch a widescale assault on a banking institution it regards as Hezbollah's de-facto financial arm, the Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association.
Israel's government says a drone was launched toward the prime minister's house, with no casualties.
The US. Agency for International Development says people urgently need food assistance.
Further intensifying matters is a video circulating on social media that showed Israeli soldiers planting their country's flag on Lebanese soil, something the U.S. State Department called "unhelpful."
Recent footage from the world food program shows the scale of the crisis as people search for a safe place on foot, by car, bus or any other means possible.
Sirens wailed as Israel's iron dome defense system stopped the incoming rockets believed to be fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon.
Israel says it's beginning a limited ground incursion, targeting the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia.
Israel's military said Wednesday that eight soldiers had been killed in "intense fighting" with Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, three days after it launched ground operations in the country. The update on the ongoing ground raids came almost a year after Israel launched its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for that Iran-backed group's Oct. 7 terrorist rampage, prompting Hamas' ally Hezbollah to start firing rockets at northern Israel.
Fears are growing of an expanded war in the Mideast, after Iran fired ballistic missiles into Israel, which were shot down with the help of the United States. Israel has said Iran will pay a price for the attack.
Israel has been bracing for a response following the assassination of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders. That retaliation came Tuesday, and Israel said there will be consequences. Charlie De Mar reports.
Explosions were heard over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem but there were no reports of Israeli deaths. A U.S. official said the attack was "effectively defeated."
Sirens blared across Israel and loud booms were heard late Tuesday after Iran launched a missile attack on the country. The Israeli military said its missile defense systems carried out "a large number of interceptions," and a U.S. defense official said the United States intercepted some of the missiles to help defend Israel.
The Pentagon says the U.S. will send a few thousand additional troops to the Middle East to boost security as the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah rapidly intensifies.
Israel said it killed Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Central County, in an airstrike Saturday. President Biden said a regional conflict "has to be avoided."
Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah, was killed in an airstrike in Lebanon's capital Beirut.
Israel has launched a barrage of airstrikes across Lebanon, killing more than 490 people and wounding more than a thousand others. It was the deadliest day of conflict in Lebanon since 2006. The Pentagon says it will send additional u-s troops to the Middle East.
In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israeli troops also raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera, ordering the bureau to shut down.
