The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

Electronic pagers that were popular status symbols in the 1990s are used for communication precisely because they are old school

A series of deadly explosions targeting Hezbollah members this week in Lebanon came only days after Israel announced plans to expand its war in Gaza to its northern border with Lebanon.

The attacks on pagers and walkie talkies (and possibly even solar panels) in Lebanon is one of those events that many have speculated was on the horizon: the weaponisation of everyday objects in 21st-century conflicts. But there were probably those who thought this “weaponisation of everything”– as security analyst Mark…

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Analysts say that remotely triggered explosions over two days have left Hezbollah with no choice but to retaliate

Israel’s Mossad spy agency is believed to be behind the operation, Chris Stevenson writes, which likely took months of planning

The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was ingenious – but was it legal?

Reconstructive surgeons in Beirut address challenges in treating injuries from wireless device explosions, highlighting the extensive road to recovery faci...

The detonation of hundreds of pagers, and dozens of walkie-talkies, used by Hezbollah leaders and associates across Lebanon, killing at least 20 and injuring 450, was a daring and high-risk attack by Israel. Some might call it foolhardy, because it opens the prospect of Israel now having to handle war…