The element of surprise was lost when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the IDF's intentions to strike targets in the Lebanese capital.

Hezbollah’s leader said the Iran-backed group, which was not included in U.S.-brokered talks, had rejected the deal.

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a fresh ceasefire which will boost Donald Trump’s broader efforts to strike a long-term peace deal with Iran.

"We have given no commitment to anyone," the Iranian-backed militant group's leader said after Israel and Lebanon announced a new U.S.-mediated agreement.

Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli drones struck at least ten vehicles across southern Lebanon. A raid near the coastal city of Tyre killed six people, according to Lebanon's health ministry and state medi

Kuwait briefly shut its main airport Wednesday after Iranian drones heavily damaged a passenger terminal building, killing an Indian national and wounding dozens