Foreign nationals told to leave Lebanon as war fears surge

Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, which has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces since the Gaza war broke out in October, announced its fighters had fired a barrage of rockets at Israel's north overnight.

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Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese village of Taybeh on August 4, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters. (AFP)