BEIRUT: Lebanon’s top diplomat on Wednesday said the deadly explosion of hundreds of Hezbollah members’ pagers could be an omen of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib warned of the incident’s gravity, “because it comes after Israeli threats to expand the focus of the war with Lebanon, which would plunge the region into a larger cycle of violence, and signal a wider war.”
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Lebanon FM says pager blasts an omen of wider war
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Lebanon FM says pager blasts an omen of wider war
- Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib warned of the incident’s gravity
Iraqi militia claims drone attack targeting US troops in Baghdad
DUBAI: An Iraqi Shiite militia claimed a drone attack Monday targeting US troops at the airport in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, further widening the retaliation over the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The group, Saraya Awliya Al-Dam, is one of a group of Shiite militias operating in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion of the country that toppled Saddam Hussein.
The US and Iraq did not immediately comment on the claim.
The attack comes as Iranian-supported militias including the Lebanese group Hezbollah have entered the war started by the US and Israel launching an airstrike campaign targeting Iran’s theocracy.
The group, Saraya Awliya Al-Dam, is one of a group of Shiite militias operating in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion of the country that toppled Saddam Hussein.
The US and Iraq did not immediately comment on the claim.
The attack comes as Iranian-supported militias including the Lebanese group Hezbollah have entered the war started by the US and Israel launching an airstrike campaign targeting Iran’s theocracy.
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