BEIRUT, March 18 (Reuters) – Near the tent she now calls home, Salam Issa Rida dropped pieces of marinated chicken into a pan sizzling atop a camping stove. Her family had been craving chicken to break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan. So she had risked her life to get it. Earlier...

“Well, there was an alarm, we went into the shelter, we heard a crazy boom. When we were allowed to come out, we went to the balcony as there was the smell of fire. We saw fire, we went downstairs, we saw that everything here was blown up as we understood that shrapnel had fallen...

BEIRUT, March 18 (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes in Beirut killed at least six people on Wednesday, the Lebanese health ministry said, shaking the heart of the Lebanese capital as Israel intensified its offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group. Israeli air strikes also pounded the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, where Reuters footage showed explosions lighting...

DUBAI/TEL AVIV, March 18 (Reuters) – Iran targeted Tel Aviv with missiles carrying cluster warheads in what it said was retaliation for Israel’s assassination of Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani, Iranian state television reported on Wednesday. The attack overnight on Tuesday killed two people in a neighbourhood close to densely populated Tel Aviv, where there...