Initial findings by a U.N. inquiry suggest Israeli tank fire hit a U.N. position in southern Lebanon on March 6, wounding Ghanaian peacekeepers.

With airstrikes rocking Beirut and Israeli troops advancing against Hezbollah, Lebanon’s government has broken a taboo by proposing the first direct talks with Israel in decades. But Lebanese officials say they want the fighting to end first — and it might be too late for that.

By bnm Gulf bureau A 26-metre statue of Jesus Christ has been unveiled in the Lebanese border village of Al-Qaa, overlooking the Syrian frontier, in what its creator described as a message of peace at a time of escalating conflict across the region,

The war is expanding into Lebanon, as an Israeli offensive to dismantle Hezbollah has displaced 800,000 people there, with more than 680 people killed.

Israel and Lebanon are expected to hold direct talks in the coming days, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Saturday, in what would be a diplomatic milestone

Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an IDF spokesperson, said in a briefing that Israeli troops were on Monday operating in new areas farther into southern Lebanon. A week ago the IDF said it had taken five "hardened positions" in Lebanon along Israel’s northern border with the country.

Israel is dramatically expanding its military presence across southern Lebanon, saying that as much as 10% of the neighboring country’s territory could become a depopulated buffer zone as long as the threat from Iran-backed Hezbollah persists.